Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955.

Dialogue

Horace:  Dolly Levi, you are a damned exasperating woman.

Dolly:  Why Horace Vandergelder.  That is the nicest thing you have ever said to me.

Tillie: Oh, with blood and bows! Look at this mess!

External links

• Hello, Dolly! at the Internet Broadway Database
• Playbill list of longest-running Broadway shows (plays and musicals)
• Synopsis, Casting, Choreography, Scenes, and Settings
• 1964 New York Times review of original production