The Matchmaker
1954
First Published
3.69
Average Rating
172
Number of Pages
Farce / Casting: 9m, 7f / Interior SceneryA certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into a hilarious complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically and has his heart's desire, the merchant finds himself affiancéd to the astute matchmaker herself. He who was so shrewd in business is putty in the hands of Dolly Levi. He is fooled by apprentices in a series of hilarious hide and seek scenes, and finally has all his bluster explode in his face.
Avg Rating
3.69
Number of Ratings
833
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
37%
3 STARS
32%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Thornton Wilder
Author · 26 books
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day. For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton...
