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The Matchmaker (Theatre)
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The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder, first performed in 1954.Horace Vandergelder, a prosperous merchant of advanced years, has decided to remarry. He sets out to spend the day in New York visiting his intended, accompanied by Mrs. Dolly Levi, an old family friend who has been mediating the match but secretly has her sights set on Horace herself. His clerks, Cornelius and Barnaby, take advantage of his absence to give themselves the day off and go into New York themselves seeking adventure, where Cornelius falls in love with a young widow who runs a hat shop — who, unbeknownst to him, is Irene Molloy, the woman his boss intends to marry. Cornelius and Barnaby end up going out to dinner with Irene and her assistant at the same restaurant where Horace and Dolly have reserved a table — and Horace's niece is secretly meeting the handsome artist her uncle has forbidden her to have anything further to do with. Hilarity Ensues.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Matchmaker became the basis for the musical Hello, Dolly!. It has a convoluted history: it's a revamp of an earlier Wilder play called The Merchant of Yonkers from 1938, which was based on the 1842 three-act musical farce Einen Jux will er sich machen (He'll Have Himself a Good Time) by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy, which was in turn based on the 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent by English dramatist John Oxenford.In 1958 the play was adapted into a film directed by Joseph Anthony, and starring Shirley Booth (in her last film role), Paul Ford, Anthony Perkins, Robert Morse, and Shirley MacLaine, with music by Adolph Deutsch and costumes by Edith Head; this version retained the fourth-wall-breaking monologues. | |
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Adaptational Location Change: It is inspired by Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy, set in Austria, which in turn is inspired by A Day Well Spent by John Oxenford, set in England. | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle | |
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And Knowing Is Half the Battle: The play ends with Mrs. Levi Breaking the Fourth Wall and prompting Barnaby to tell the audience the play's moral. | |
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Audience Monologue: There's one in each of the four acts. In Act 1, Vandergelder describes his world view, summed up by the sentence "Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contamination", and explains why he's nevertheless planning to risk being a bit foolish by getting married. In Act 2, Cornelius describes the wonders of being in love, and how he won't care what happens if Vandergelder catches him out because the memory of this day will sustain him.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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