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Very Warm for May
Opened 1939
59 performances
Musical, Early
May, a sheltered socialite, runs away to join a progressive summer stock theatre company. She falls for the leading man while navigating eccentric theatrical personalities. Her disapproving father arrives to drag her home, but May's newfound independence wins out.
- Music
- Jerome Kern
- Lyrics
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Book
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Productions1 on Broadway
Recordings 1 recording
Very Warm for May is a musical composed by Jerome Kern, with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was the team's final score for Broadway, following their hits Show Boat, Sweet Adeline, and Music in the Air. It marked a return to Broadway for Kern, who had spent several years in Hollywood writing music for movies, including Swing Time for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Vincente Minnelli directed Very Warm for May, which opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 17, 1939. It contained such favorite songs as "All the Things You Are", "All in Fun", and "In the Heart of the Dark." Gerald Bordman, author of the definitive Kern biography Jerome Kern: His Life and Music, hailed the score as one of…
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