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The New Yorkers

Shows · The New Yorkers

The New Yorkers is a musical with score by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields that satirizes New York City types during Prohibition, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves, and prostitutes. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1930, based on a story by E.

Opened
1930
Performances
168
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Cole PorterLyrics: Cole PorterBook: Herbert Fields

Productions3 on Broadway

1901 Herald Square Theatre Original. October 7, 1901 · predates this show 64 performances
1927 Edyth Totten Theatre Revival. March 10, 1927 · predates this show 52 performances
1930 Broadway Theatre Revival. December 8, 1930 · Monty Woolley 168 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

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In the literature25 passages

The New Yorkers filled the bill. The show, which starred Jimmy Durante, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, and Ann Pennington, is best remembered for the song “Love for Sale,” which caused enormous controversy. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p108

Herbert continued his collaboration with Porter with The New Yorkers (12/8/30; 158 performances). book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p189

'Love for Sale' in The New Yorkers (1930), and “Night and Day” in Gay Divorce (1932). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p70

“Take Me Back to Manhattan” (Reno/Four Angels) (introduced in The New Yorkers by Frances Williams [December 8, 1930]) book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p585

'You Do Something to Me' in Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), and “Love for Sale” in The New Yorkers (1930), and “Night and Day” in Gay Divorce (1932). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-uni#p70

'Just One Of Those Things' [2nd]—the hit; different than song from THE NEW YORKERS [December 8, 1930] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p245

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