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The Merchant of Yonkers
Play
Farce
Original
Opening Date
Dec 28, 1938
Closing Date
Jan 1939
Performances
39
Play
Farce
Original
Open Date: Dec 28, 1938
Close Date: Jan 1939
Closed Flag: n
Is Final Week:
ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
Guild Theatre
(Dec 28, 1938 - Jan 1939)
Setting
Vandergelder's house in Yonkers. Mrs. Molloy's hat store, New York. The Harmonia Gardens restaurant on the Battery. Miss Van Huysen's house.
Comments
Production was later re-written as "The Matchmaker."
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
Herman Shumlin
Written by
Thornton Wilder
; Based on a comedy by
Johann Nestroy
Staged by
Max Reinhardt
Scenic Design by
Boris Aronson
John Call
Barnaby Tucker
Philip Coolidge
Joe Scanlon
Jane Cowl
Mrs. Levi
Tom Ewell
Cornelius Hackl
Frances Harison
Ermengarde
Edward F. Nannary
A Cabman
Minna Phillips
Miss Van Huysen
Maida Reade
A Cook
Bartlett Robinson
Ambrose Kemper
Peter Struwel
August
Joseph Sweeney
Melchior Stack
June Walker
Mrs. Molloy
Percy Waram
Horace Vandergelder
Carrie Weller
Gertrude
Nydia Westman
Minnie Fay
Max Willenz
Rudolph
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
Herman Shumlin
Written by
Thornton Wilder
; Based on a comedy by
Johann Nestroy
Staged by
Max Reinhardt
Scenic Design by
Boris Aronson
John Call
Barnaby Tucker
Philip Coolidge
Joe Scanlon
Jane Cowl
Mrs. Levi
Tom Ewell
Cornelius Hackl
Frances Harison
Ermengarde
Edward F. Nannary
A Cabman
Minna Phillips
Miss Van Huysen
Maida Reade
A Cook
Bartlett Robinson
Ambrose Kemper
Peter Struwel
August
Joseph Sweeney
Melchior Stack
June Walker
Mrs. Molloy
Percy Waram
Horace Vandergelder
Carrie Weller
Gertrude
Nydia Westman
Minnie Fay
Max Willenz
Rudolph
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