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The Merchant of Yonkers

Guild Theatre , (12/28/1938 - circa. 1/1939)

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Opening Date:	Dec 28, 1938
Closing Date:	Jan 1939	Total Performances:	39

Category: Play, Farce, Original

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."

Opening Night Credits

Production Staff
Produced by Herman Shumlin
Written by Thornton Wilder; Based on a comedy by Johann Nestroy
Staged by Max Reinhardt
Scenic Design by Boris Aronson

Cast

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