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Knickerbocker Holiday

Opened 1938

168 performances

Musical, Early

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.

Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Maxwell Anderson
Book: Maxwell Anderson

Productions1 on Broadway

1938

Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway Original, opened October 19, 1938, directed by Joshua Logan

168 performances

Songs5 songs

There’s Nowhere to Go but Up, It Never Was You, How Can You Tell an American?, September Song, The Scars

Recordings 2 recordings

1984

Knickerbocker Holiday AEI AEI LP 1148, released 1984

United States

1995

Knickerbocker Holiday AEI AEI-CD 007, released July 14, 1995

United States

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