The Matchmaker- Story of Hello Dolly at The Kate

The MATCHMAKER is Thornton Wilder’s hilarious comedy set in the 1880's in New York City on which the musical HELLO,DOLLY is based. Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant, decides to take a wife and employs a matchmaker, Mrs. Dolly Levi to find him the perfect woman. Before long, Dolly also becomes involved in the lives of two of Vandergelder’s clerks, several lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this entertaining farce runs headlong into uproarious complications.