Originally conceived as "The Merchant of Yonkers," Thorton Wilder wrote it with one actress in mind to play the role of Dolly -- his lifelong friend, Ruth Gordon. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wilder in … PUBLISHER: NY: Harper & Brothers, 1939. This page was last edited on 18 November 2020, at 03:25 (UTC). Fine in a very good or slightly better dust jacket.. Wilder worked sporadically for several years on his first farce, secretly hoping that the adaptation might someday be staged by the great Max Reinhardt, the towering German director who had become something of an idol to the young writer. Inscribed on the title-page"Like Cornelius and Barnaby some day I'm coming to New York again to have fun with the Freemans says Thort." 1 vol., publisher's original stamped brown cloth binding, with the original DJ, DJ not price clipped. Merchant of Yonkers, later revised by Wilder and titled The Matchmaker, ran “in New York from December 1955 to February 2, 1957… The musical comedy version of the latter— Hello, Dolly! Merchant of Yonkers Jane Cowl, Nydia Westman, June Walker, Percy Waram, Frances Harison, and Bartlett Robinson, 1938 Miss Van Huysen's house. —ran in New York from January 16, 1964, to December 27, 1970” ( Selected Letters , 364n). BARRY WELLS New York. John Oxenford's 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent had been extended into a full-length play entitled Einen Jux will er sich machen by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842. Setting: Vandergelder's house in Yonkers. The Merchant of Yonkers. The Harmonia Gardens restaurant on the Battery. Play Farce. He reworked the play in 1955 and retitled it The Matchmaker, and in 1964, it was adapted into the musical Hello Dolly. The Merchant of Yonkers. AUTHOR: WILDER, Thornton TITLE: The Merchant of Yonkers. The Merchant of Yonkers, which ran a mere 39 performances in New York, was a dismal failure for Wilder. In the 1954 The Matchmaker , she adds the detail of an oak leaf falling out of a Bible as provoking the insight that she had become as dry as the dead leaf, and must start to live again. Signed and inscribed by the author Thornton Wilder to actress Carol Channing in black and red ink on a 4 1/2” x 6 1/8” sheet of his personal printed stationery which has been affixed to the front free endpaper. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. The original text. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED. The Merchant of Yonkers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Mrs. Molloy's hat store, New York. In the 1938 Merchant of Yonkers, Dolly addresses her dead husband, then speaks about the appropriate value of money, and her wish to rejoin the human race.
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