Shows · Subways Are For Sleeping
Subways Are For Sleeping
Opened 1961
205 performances
Musical, Golden Age
New Yorker Tom Bailey (Sydney Chaplin) has dropped out of society and rides on the subway all day. He falls in love with the magazine writer Angela McKay (Carol Lawrence). Also riding the subway is beauty contest winner Martha Vail (Phyllis Newman) who has been evicted and runs around in a towel, much to the bemusement of her sweetheart Charlie Smith (Orson Bean).
"7 out of 7 are ecstatically unanimous about Subways Are For Sleeping.": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Jule Styne
- Lyrics
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green
- Book
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Productions1 on Broadway
1961
205 performances
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