Musicals Set In New York City- Page 3

[daredevil]

Posted: 11/10/11 at 10:53am

What Makes Sammy Run, first couple of scenes, before Sammy emigrates to LA
Drat the Cat (not sure)
Bright Lights, Big City
Pins and Needles (never stated, but it is a union musical)
A Broadway Musical

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/10/11 at 11:06am

The Life

Minnie's Boys

Fame

[sbflyfan]

Posted: 11/10/11 at 12:00pm

"Tell me On A Sunday" is set almost entirely in New York, except for a brief trip to L.A. in the version that's a part of "Song & Dance," and starting in the UK at the beginning of the standalone revival.

Updated On: 11/10/11 at 12:00 PM

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/19/16 at 11:42pm

HAMILTON

[@z5]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 12:17am

If/Then. 

American Psycho

On The Town

[gfaustswa]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 12:29am

[title of show] and xanadu were set in NYC, weren't they?

 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 12:32am

Prince Of Central Park

Inner City.  

[MackTheKnife2]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 12:38am

Annie

Company

Fiorello!

Funny Girl

Guys and Dolls

The Nervous Set

On the Town

The Producers

Rent

Sweet Charity

West Side Story

The Wild Party

 

[The Other One]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 6:42am

I Had A Ball

Golden Boy

Up In Central Park

Updated On: 4/20/16 at 06:42 AM

[KCW]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 7:14am

Shuffle along, the one on Broadway right now with the crazy long name.

 

[Broadway Forever2]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 4:00pm

lol I read through the first few pages wondering why no one had mentioned Hamilton since that's the first thing anyone mentions on this board then I realized someone bumped a 5 year old thread. 

[kdogg36]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 4:17pm

[title of show] and xanadu were set in NYC, weren't they?

I think Xanadu was set in Southern California.

[TFMH18]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 4:30pm

If/Then doesn't shut the heck up about New York through its entire three hours! (I love the show, by the way, but even I think one or two less NYC metaphors would've been fine.) 

[Platypus]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 4:46pm

charlesjguiteau, American Idiot does not take place in New York City. It says right in the Playbill: Time: Recent Past; Place: Jingletown, USA. NYC is never mentioned in any of the characters' travels, either. City names are left out on purpose, as the show is meant to represent the experience in post-9/11 America in general. Yes, there are constant references to 9/11, but only as it relates to the effect on the entire country.  

[Randomlink1]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 4:54pm

From what I know, a short list:

Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Producers, Avenue Q, After Midnight, Company, In the Heights, Rent, Annie, On the Town, and Hair

Possibly Shuffle Along (I haven't seen the newest production, and I'm not sure if it's a revival or a musical based upon the original from what I've heard. If it's the latter, it tells the story of the musical itself, so it takes place in New York).

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 4:56pm

Beautiful.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 4/20/16 at 7:44pm

Platypus said: "charlesjguiteau, American Idiot does not take place in New York City. It says right in the Playbill: Time: Recent Past; Place: Jingletown, USA. NYC is never mentioned in any of the characters' travels, either. City names are left out on purpose, as the show is meant to represent the experience in post-9/11 America in general. Yes, there are constant references to 9/11, but only as it relates to the effect on the entire country."

You're right about the information in the Playbill, which would seem to settle the issue. However, in one scene in the Broadway production, Will is reading a postcard from Johnny that clearly says "Times Square" on the front. So there's at least an argument to be made that Johnny has indeed run away to NYC. :)

 

[Broadway Geek2]

Posted: 4/21/16 at 8:16am

"Subways Are For Sleeping"?

[Robert16]

Posted: 4/21/16 at 2:04pm

Newsies

American Psycho

Company

42nd St

West Side Story

A Chorus Line

[BwayGeek2]

Posted: 4/21/16 at 2:08pm

NEWSIES.

also, briefly, Disaster!

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 4/21/16 at 4:35pm

A big thank you for everyone for indulging me here, I was so moved that this thread got restarted with some additional ones, I spent a couple of hours collating the contributions and put them in alphabetical order, the lists stands 110,  but I am sure there are a couple more out there, so ones for the real theatre aficionados to spot.

Great spot with Newsies and If/Then BTW.

So the complete list so far:

1. 42nd Street
2. A Chorus Line
3. A Broadway Musica
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
5. After Midnight
6. Ain’t Misbehavin’
7. American Idiot (Partly)?
8. American Psycho
9. Annie
10. Anything Goes (opening scenes)
11. Applause
12. Avenue Q
13. Bajour
14. Ballroom
15. Beautiful
16. Bells Are Ringing
17. Big
18. Brigadoon (second act turning point)
19. Bright Lights, Big City
20. Brooklyn
21. By the Beautiful Sea
22. Café Crown
23. Company!
24. Disaster!
25. Drat the Cat
26. ELF
27. Face the Music (Berlin)
28. Fame
29. Fiorello
30. Flora the Red Menace
31. Funny Girl
32. George M
33. Ghost
34. Golden Boy
35. Guys and Dolls
36. Gypsy (pivotal first act scenes; closing scene)
37. Hair
38. Hamilton
39. Hazel Flagg (mostly)
40. Hello, Dolly! (Part of)
41. Henry, Sweet Henry
42. Here's Love
43. How Now Dow Jones
44. I Can Get It For You Wholesale
45. I Had A Ball
46. If/Then
47. In the Heights
48. Inner City
49. Jennie
50. Jimmy
51. Kelly
52. Knickerbocker Holiday (well, New Amsterdam)
53. Legs Diamond
54. Lady in the Dark
55. Little Shop of Horrors
56. Love Never Dies
57. Newsies
58. Maggie Flynn
59. Mame
60. Me and Juliet
61. Minnie's Boys
62. Miss Liberty
63. My Favorite Year
64. Newsies
65. On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
66. On The Town
67. On Your Toes
68. One Touch of Venus
69. Pins and Needles
70. Prince Of Central Park
71. Promises, Promises
72. Rags
73. Ragtime
74. Rent
75. Reuben Reuben
76. Saturday Night
77. Seesaw
78. Show Girl (Gershwin)
79. Shuffle along
80. Skyscraper
81. Sophie (Partly)
82. Street Scene
83. Subways Are For Sleeping
84. Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark
85. Sweet Adeline (Kern - but only in part)
86. Sweet Charity
87. Tell me On A Sunda
88. Tenderloin
89. The Addams Family
90. The Body Beautiful
91. The Capeman
92. The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
93. The Girl in Pink Tights
94. The Goodbye Girl
95. The Life
96. The Madwoman of Central Park West
97. The Nervous Set (Partly)
98. The Prince of Grand Street
99. The Producers
100. The Tap Dance Kid
101. The Wild Party
102. They're Playing Our Song
103. Thoroughly Modern Millie
104. [title of show]
105. Top Banana
106. Up in Central Park
107. West Side Story
108. Wonderful Town
109. Wonderland
110. Xanadu?

Great work guys.

[NoName3]

Posted: 4/22/16 at 4:35am

How did we all forget How to Succeed?

Dames at Sea

Jerome Kern's Sally

A Class Act

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opens in a New York nightclub, moves to the New York piers (Bye, Bye, Baby) and concludes in the Central Park Casino.

Anything Goes opens on the New York piers.

DuBarry Was a Lady opens and closes in a New York nightclub with the rest of the show being Bert Lahr's dream after being knocked out.

Irene alternates between NYC and a Long Island estate.

Kurt Weill's Johnny Johnson has one important scene set on the deck of a ship as it slowly steams past the Statue of Liberty.

 

Updated On: 4/22/16 at 04:35 AM

[PetShopBoy2]

Posted: 4/22/16 at 7:10am

That's a great list that you compiled, but you should definitely remove Xanadu from it.

Xanadu, both the movie and the musical, takes place in Los Angeles.  Locations in the stage show include Venice Beach and Santa Monica Pier.  The movie had scenes at the Hollywood Bowl and a clothing store in Beverly Hills.

In the Broadway show, the old theatre that the characters transform into "Xanadu" is in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, which is also where the Pan Pacific Auditorium in the movie used to stand.

The stage show had a scene set on Mount Olympus in Greece, as well.

Perhaps the reason for the confusion is that an early ad for the Broadway show featured the title Xanadu above the New York skyline at night.  I think this just meant the show, set in L.A., was coming to New York's Broadway.

 

 

Updated On: 4/22/16 at 07:10 AM

[verdigris]

Posted: 4/22/16 at 10:09am

Fun Home has a scene which is set in New York (the Village I think?)

Updated On: 4/22/16 at 10:09 AM

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 11/12/17 at 10:35am

Just seen Big Fish I London and can add that to the list.