What is Your Favorite Musical That Took Place in New York?

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What 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 !!! :)

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 2:31am

probably back to george m...."give my regards to broadway..."

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 2:53am

Throughly Modern Millie

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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?

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 3:00am

i cant think of any others

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 3:00am

Hey Capn,

GEORGE M! Yes!!!

The story of the man who DEFINED entertainment for nearly thirty years.

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 4:22am

uhhhhh.... WEST SIDE!

"iiiiiii like the island manhattan!"
"i *know* you do!"

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 4:34am

on the town
west side story
sweet charity
promises promises
seesaw
company
..among others

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 9:36am

!) Rent
2) Thoroughly Modern Millie
3) West Side Story

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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"!

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

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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.

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 9:54am

Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Producers
42nd Street (not all of it was in NYC)

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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!

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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:00am

hmmm....I wonder if anyone can guess mine?

Definitely Millie!

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:00am

West Side Story, Wonderful Town, On The Town... wow too many

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:14am

West Side Story
Thoroughly Modern Millie

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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?

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:20am

Q

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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.

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:23am

FUNNY GIRL should also be listed here.

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"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

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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.

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

Updated On: 10/10/04 at 10:23 AM

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:25am

TABOO

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:26am

took place in London SCF

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Posted: 10/10/04 at 10:27am

TABOO took place in ny

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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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"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."