Opened on January 16, 1964. Closed December 27, 1970 after 2,844 performances — 6.9 years. 10 Tony Awards in 1964, including Best Musical; A Drama Desk Award in 1970 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 1954. The musical follows the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi, a strong-willed matchmaker, as she travels to Yonkers, New York, to find a match for the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. Wiki link