<Tr> <Th> Productions </Th> <Td> 1964 Broadway 1965 West End 1965--66 Australasia tour 1969 Film 1975 All - black Broadway revival 1978 Broadway revival 1995 Broadway revival 1996 Mexico City 2001 Madrid 2009 West End revival 2017 Broadway revival 2017 Melbourne </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Tony Award for Best Musical Tony for Composer and Lyricist Tony Award for Best Book Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 1955), 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 . In doing so she persuades his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City . </P> <P> Hello, Dolly! was first produced on Broadway by David Merrick in 1964, winning a record - tying (tied with South Pacific) 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, a record held for 37 years . The show album Hello, Dolly! An Original Cast Recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 . The album reached number one on the Billboard album chart on June 6, 1964 and was replaced the next week by Louis Armstrong's album Hello, Dolly! </P>

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