The New Yorkers
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The New Yorkers is a musical with score by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields that satirizes New York City types during Prohibition, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves, and prostitutes. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1930, based on a story by E.
- Opened
- 1930
- Performances
- 168
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1901 | Herald Square Theatre Original. October 7, 1901 · predates this show | 64 performances |
| 1927 | Edyth Totten Theatre Revival. March 10, 1927 · predates this show | 52 performances |
| 1930 | Broadway Theatre Revival. December 8, 1930 · Monty Woolley | 168 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing not confirmed
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25 passages naming The New Yorkers, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The New Yorkers filled the bill. The show, which starred Jimmy Durante, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, and Ann Pennington, is best remembered for the song “Love for Sale,” which caused enormous controversy. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p108
Herbert continued his collaboration with Porter with The New Yorkers (12/8/30; 158 performances). book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p189
'Love for Sale' in The New Yorkers (1930), and “Night and Day” in Gay Divorce (1932). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p70
“Take Me Back to Manhattan” (Reno/Four Angels) (introduced in The New Yorkers by Frances Williams [December 8, 1930]) book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p585
'You Do Something to Me' in Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), and “Love for Sale” in The New Yorkers (1930), and “Night and Day” in Gay Divorce (1932). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-uni#p70
'Just One Of Those Things' [2nd]—the hit; different than song from THE NEW YORKERS [December 8, 1930] book:show-tunes-1905-1985-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-steven-suskin-1st-ed-new-yor#p245
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