Knickerbocker Holiday
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Knickerbocker Holiday is a 1938 musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Anderson, based loosely on Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York about life in 17th-century New Netherland. The musical numbers include "September Song", now considered a pop standard.
- Opened
- 1938
- Performances
- 168
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1938 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Original. October 19, 1938 · Joshua Logan | 168 performances |
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'Spring Isn’t Everything’ is an interesting companion piece to both Huston’s “September Song” from Knickerbocker Holiday and Take Me Along ’s “Staying Young.” book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p829
Logan’s first musical assignment was for the Rodgers and Hart show I Married an Angel (5/11/38; 338 performances) during which he began a long working relationship with Richard Rodgers. He went on to direct many of Broadway’s top musicals, including Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s Knickerbocker Holiday (10/19/38; 168… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p330
Knickerbocker Holiday (10/19/38; 168 performances) opened only 4 days after Abe Lincoln in Illinois. It starred Walter Huston, and it introduced the classic ballad “September Song.” book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p431
Anderson couldn't pull it off with Knickerbocker Holiday, nor could Weill and Alan Jay Lerner with Love Life. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p39
Beginning his musical career directing the hits Knickerbocker Holiday, By Jupiter, and This Is the Army, Logan became a hot commodity when he directed the wonderful Annie Get Your Gun in 1946. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p309
Of the works originally composed for American audiences perhaps only Street Scene (1947), a modest success in its own time with 148 performances, and the comparably successful Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) and Lost in the Stars (1949) (168 and 273 performances, respectively) have gained increasing popular and critical a… book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p170
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