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The Gay Life
Opened 1961
113 performances
Musical, Golden Age
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, dashing bachelor Anatol is a compulsive philanderer who moves from one affair to the next. When his best friend Max's sister, the innocent Liesl, falls in love with him, Anatol must confront whether he is capable of genuine love or doomed to an endless cycle of meaningless romances.
- Music
- Arthur Schwartz
- Lyrics
- Howard Dietz
- Book
- Michael Kanin, Fay Kanin
Productions2 on Broadway
The Gay Life is a musical with a book by Fay and Michael Kanin, lyrics by Howard Dietz, and music by Arthur Schwartz. Based on a cycle of seven short plays by Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893 and first staged in 1910, The Gay Life focuses on womanizing playboy Anatol von Huber. The score is a mixture of traditional Broadway show tunes and operetta.
You can’t cut her out. She’s got the best costume in the show!
Lucinda Ballard. Show and Tell the New Book of Broadway Anecdotes Ken Bloom Bloom Ken Oxford Univ, p. 333Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.