What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 2:27am
For me, it's no contest: ON THE TOWN (1944)
Bouncy Bernstein score, bird's eye view of ENTIRE CITY (from loading docks to Art Museum to subways to Coney Island).
"NEW YORK, NEW YORK"
"Carried Away"
"I CAN COOK, TOO"
"Some Other Time"
Jerome Robbins Chereography. Great humor.
A WINNER !!! :)
capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
#1re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 2:31amprobably back to george m...."give my regards to broadway..."
#2re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 2:53amThroughly Modern Millie
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#3re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 2:58am
Hey Musical... :)
Thoroughly Modern Millie--YES!
"The World Has Gone To Rack and To Ruin."
What other musical has so much fun with a typing test?
#4re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 3:00ami cant think of any others
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#5re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 3:00am
Hey Capn,
GEORGE M! Yes!!!
The story of the man who DEFINED entertainment for nearly thirty years.
#6re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 4:22am
uhhhhh.... WEST SIDE!
"iiiiiii like the island manhattan!"
"i *know* you do!"
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#7re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 4:34am
on the town
west side story
sweet charity
promises promises
seesaw
company
..among others
defy_gravity
Stand-by Joined: 9/12/04
#8re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 9:36am
!) Rent
2) Thoroughly Modern Millie
3) West Side Story
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#9re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 9:41am
Hi feinstein9, :)
WEST SIDE STORY does what many musicals set in NYC do NOT do--present the more realistic, gritty side of the city and is most definitely NOT a picture postcard to Manhattan! (Like SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING).
PS. I LOVE you quoting "Manhattan"! 
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#10re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 9:47am
Hi Marquise, :)
Yes, PROMISES, PROMISES gets a lot of mileage out of its NYC setting and the way people interact act with one another there.
Believe it or not, I saw a local production in Philadelphia years ago and they rewrote the whole show to take place in Philly!
Kind of a strange piece--it was kinda like watching GONE WITH THE WIND reset in Boston.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#11re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 9:54am
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Producers
42nd Street (not all of it was in NYC)
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#12re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 9:58am
Hi Again Mllie... :)
You are right, part of 42ND STREET takes place in Philadelphia--but that's COOL, because that's my home town!
#13re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:00am
hmmm....I wonder if anyone can guess mine?
Definitely Millie!
#14re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:00amWest Side Story, Wonderful Town, On The Town... wow too many
#15re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:14am
West Side Story
Thoroughly Modern Millie
#16re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:18am
I so wish I had seen PROMISES, PROMISES.
ANNIE is another show that takes place in NY.
Did PINS AND NEEDLES take place in NY?
Does OH KAY take place in NY?
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:21am
Pins and Needles was a revue, rather than a traditional book musical.
And yes, Oh, Kay! takes place in a ritzy New York townhouse.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#19re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:23amFUNNY GIRL should also be listed here.
#20re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:23am
Thank magruder and damn you're cute!
I think DESK SET takes place in NYC.
"Take the Mexington Ave bus."
Not sure if it was re-written for the film.
PS: opps, forgot this is about musicals.... DESK SET is not a musical. 
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#22re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:26amtook place in London SCF
#23re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:27amTABOO took place in ny
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#24re: What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?
Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:32am
Hi Glenn :)
PROMISES, PROMISES is an OUTSTANDING show. Too bad Bacharach & David found backstage politics not to their liking and vowed never to do another Broadway Show. Such a shame, "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" etc. Sometimes rumors of a PP film are heard, but so far, nothing imminet.
Glenn, PINS AND NEEDLES is a musical "revue" that has various sketches and songs--most of which are about New York or New York-related themes. One exception is the "Four Little Angels of Peace" number which is about America and Britain "looking the other way" when Hitler acquired Austria and Czechslovokia.
OH, KAY! takes place on Long Island (or should I say Lung Ayelund?)
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