FREEPORT — Thornton Wilder’s famous farce, “The Matchmaker” — the inspiration for the musical “Hello Dolly!” — will be performed by Merriconeag Waldorf High School’s ninth and 10th grades tonight at 7 p.m. at the school’s community hall, 57 Desert Road.

Admission will be $5 for all seats.

The plot revolves around Dolly Levi, matchmaker extraordinaire, who appears to be arranging a marriage for wealthy curmudgeon Horace Vandergelder. However, she has a personal interest in who should end up as Horace’s wife. In the meantime, two of Vandergelder’s beleaguered clerks decide to go into New York City for an adventure. They get more than they bargained for as they become romantically entangled with a couple of lovely ladies, while at the same time continually bumping into their employer, first at a hat shop, then a restaurant, and finally at a spinster’s apartment.