THE MATCHMAKER
Cast Breakdown
Horace Vandergelder
60 years old. Choleric, vain, and sly. Stingy with money and rude to everyone.
Ambrose Kemper
30 years old. An artist who is in love with Ermengarde.
Joe Scanlon
50 years old. Vandergelder’s loyal barber.
Gertrude
80 years old, deaf and half blind. Horace Vandergelder’s housekeeper.
Cornelius Hackl
33 years old. Chief Clerk at Horace Vandergelder’s store in Yonkers. Longs for a day off.
Ermengarde
24 years old. The niece of Horace Vandergelder. In love with Ambrose Kemper, against the wishes of her
uncle.
Malachi Stack
50 years old. Vandergelder’s most recent employee who comes with a stack of reference letters from all of
his very many previous employers.
Mrs. Dolly Levi
Uncertain age. The Matchmaker. A good natured manipulator and schemer who does not mind making up
stories to get the results she wants.
Barnaby Tucker
17 years old. Junior clerk at Vandergelder’s store. Naïve about the world. Does whatever Cornelius tells him
to.
Mrs. Irene Molloy
Vandergelder’s initial “love” interest. Cornelius complicates that by falling in love with her.
Minnie Fay
Works in Mrs. Molloy’s hat shop. Gets roped into her adventures with Cornelius and Barnaby.
A Cabman
Hired by Vandergelder to transport his niece to Miss Van Huysen’s house. Has too much to drink and kidnaps
the wrong couple.
Rudolf
The snobbish, German waiter at the Harmonia Gardens.
August
A nervous, young waiter at the Harmonia Gardens
Miss Flora Van Huysen
An old friend of Ermengarde’s deceased mother. A romantic old spinster determined to help lovers get
together.
A Cook
Miss Van Huysen’s cook and lookout.