Posted: 7/26/20 at 2:57pm
What plays or musicals have scenes or songs set at New Year's?
RENT and Cabaret for sure.
Posted: 7/26/20 at 3:01pm
Sunset Boulevard!
Posted: 7/26/20 at 3:09pm
"Show Boat"--At the Trocadero, where Cap'n Andy finds daughter Magnolia singing "After the Ball."
Posted: 7/26/20 at 3:12pm
Phantom — there's no countdown but Masquerade is celebrated as a New Year's party.
Posted: 7/26/20 at 3:18pm
Arthur Laurents wrote a play that was literally called "New Year's Eve"
Oh, and there is a musical named Changes with a score by Addy Fieger, which chronicles the lives of a few characters in the timeframe of exactly one year, starting and ending with New Year's Eve. Larry Kert and Kelly Bishop were in the original Off Broadway cast in 1980.
Updated On: 7/26/20 at 03:18 PM
Posted: 7/26/20 at 5:53pm
Brave Sir Robin2 said: "Sunset Boulevard!"
Two remarkable New Year scenes - the Hollywood crowd celebrating New Year...and Norma singing about A Perfect Year.
Posted: 7/26/20 at 5:53pm
double post -- pls delete.
Updated On: 7/26/20 at 05:53 PM
Posted: 7/26/20 at 7:30pm
Striking 12. The entire show happened on New Year's Eve.
Posted: 7/26/20 at 8:19pm
Posted: 7/26/20 at 10:06pm
In 1980, there was a Broadway musical entitled "Happy New Year" that lasted three weeks at the Morosco. It was based on the play "Holiday," in which New Year's Eve figures significantly.
Posted: 7/27/20 at 10:11am
I vaguely recall there is a New Years Eve scene in George M!
Posted: 7/27/20 at 1:07pm
Am I right to remember a New Year's Eve scene in DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER?
Memories from 1983 are distinctly hazy at this point.
Are there any other lucky suckers who remember Alan Jay Lerner's last show better than I?
Posted: 7/30/20 at 10:44am
I believe that Belle performs the song "Here's to Us!" on NY's Eve in "Little Me".
The Act One Finale of "Legs Diamond" has them doing a countdown when the bullets start to fly.
