Einen Jux will er sich machen
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Einen Jux will er sich machen ("He'll Have Himself A Good Time") is a play by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy.
Although about half of Nestroy's works have been revived for the modern German-speaking audience and many are part and parcel of today's Viennese repertoire, few have ever been translated into English.
Einen Jux will er sich machen is the only one that has become well known to English-speaking theatregoers. Interestingly, it has become a classic more than once. It was adapted twice by Thornton Wilder, first as The Merchant of Yonkers (1938), then as The Matchmaker (1955), which later became the musical Hello, Dolly!. It also achieved success as the comic masterpiece On the Razzle, which was adapted by Tom Stoppard in 1991.
The play itself was adapted from John Oxenford's 1835 A Day Well Spent.
