Shows · Very Warm for May · Alvin Theatre, 1939
Very Warm for May, 1939
Of the productions that opened in the 1930s, this had the 410th longest run.
Who was in it46 named
Dolores Anderson
Maxine Barrat
Seldon Bennett
Beulah Blake
Virginia Card
Peter Chambers
Andre Charise
William Collins
Sally Craven
Helen Donovan
Eleanor Eberle
Frank Egan
Bruce Evans
Miriam Franklyn
Claire Harvey
Louis Hightower
Avon Long
Walter Long
Don Loper
Ethel Lynn
Ray Mayer
Len Mence
Frances Mercer
Rudy Miller
Kay Picture
Marie Louise Quevli
Richard Quine
Pamela Randell
Jack Seymour
Hollace Shaw
Max Showalter
Ralph Stuart
Evelyn Thawl
Webb Tilton
Jack Wilson
Creative team
- Director
- Oscar Hammerstein II, Vincente Minnelli
- Choreographer
- Albertina Rasch
- Orchestrations
- Russell Bennett 4
Recordings
1 recording of Very Warm for May exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Very Warm for May for all of them.
Around this production
Very Warm for May is a musical composed by Jerome Kern, with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was the team's final score for Broadway, following their hits Show Boat, Sweet Adeline, and Music in the Air. It marked a return to Broadway for Kern, who had spent several years in Hollywood writing music for movies, including Swing Time for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Vincente Minnelli directed Very Warm for May, which opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 17, 1939. It contained such favorite songs as "All the Things You Are", "All in Fun", and "In the Heart of the Dark." Gerald Bordman, author of the definitive Kern biography Jerome Kern: His Life and Music, hailed the score as one of…
The critics and audiences who saw the show prior to New York were generally enthusiastic, but Gordon was unhappy with Vincente Minnelli’s direction and asked Hassard Short to step in. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 615
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