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Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?

Phantom of London
Broadway Legend
joined:3/26/08
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 07:30pm
I can think of a few musicals that have been set in New York in its entirety or partially, but I am sure there are loads? Help me out here and see how many we can name?
2013 Shows: (New York: Glengarry Glen Ross*** Picnic**** The Lion King**** Mamma Mia**** Who's Afraid of Virginia Woofe**** The Other Place*** Nice Work, If You Can Get It** Annie**** The Phantom of the Opera**** Cat On A Hot Tin Roof*** Cinderella**** Evita**** (Final Performance) The Mystery of Edwin Drood*** Mary Poppins*****) London: Salad Days** Great Expectations*** This House** Chess**** A Chorus Line**** Quartermine's Terms**** Old Times*** The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time***** Dear World*** People**** Viva Forever** Peter and Alice** The Wimslow Boy***** Proof**** Our Country's Good* The Tailor Made Man**** Darling of the Day*** Top Hat*** A Judas Kiss*** Spamalot*** Once**** Wicked** A Chorus Line**** Book of Mormon***** Hairspray**** (Tour: Southampton) Sleeping Arrangements***** The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes*** The Pajama Game***(Chichester)The Thrill of Love*** Hymn**/Cocktail Sticks**** Merrily We Roll Along***** The Weir**** The Hot House**** The Rise and the Fall of the Little Voice***** (Churchill, Bromley) Ghost*** (Wimbledon) To Kill A Mockingbird*** (Open Air) Beautiful Thing*** The Phantom*** Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*** Relative Speaking****
GavestonPS
Broadway Legend
joined:6/10/12
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 08:22pm
Off the top of my head:

ON THE TOWN
WONDERFUL TOWN
BELLS ARE RINGING
COMPANY
FIORELLO!
TENDERLOIN
ME AND JULIET
STREET SCENE
LADY IN THE DARK
RENT
AVENUE Q
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
BALLROOM
A CHORUS LINE
SEESAW
PROMISES, PROMISES

...and any number of musicals from the 20s through the 40s.

Updated On: 12/7/12 at 08:22 PM
Brave Sir Robin2
Broadway Legend
joined:5/20/07
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 08:26pm
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
ORDINARY DAYS
NEWSIES
"What's wrong with bottoms? If it wasn't for them, I would have nothing to do!" - TheatreDiva90016
""Well, who needs cake when Jordan's here having orgasms? - CATSNYrevival
tmbyru
Stand-by
joined:12/4/11
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 08:31pm
IN THE HEIGHTS
tomatlcm
Swing
joined:5/31/10
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 08:32pm
Applause
Title of show
70 girls 70
the addams family musical
Guys and dolls
How to succeed in business
Love never dies
Mame- well at least some of it
promises promises- i think
west side story

and now i give up... there must be hundreds!

Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend
joined:9/16/07
Kad
Broadway Legend
joined:11/5/05
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 08:45pm
The list has changed since then.
Jordan Catalano
Broadway Legend
joined:10/9/05
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 08:49pm
LOVE NEVER DIES!!!!!!!!!!
"I think Glee is way too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting for the masses." - Dave19 - "What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians? Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Star
joined:10/16/11
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 09:00pm
Annie
"Don't quit while you're ahead." -The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin
Broadway Legend
joined:8/3/05
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 09:13pm
Bklyn!!!!
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
GavestonPS
Broadway Legend
joined:6/10/12
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 10:11pm
Sorry to quibble, but APPLAUSE has a very important Act II scene set in Connecticut.

Likewise, MAME goes all the way to Dixie, if one recalls the title number.

But I understand that both of the above "feel" like "New York-set shows".

(ETA I apologize. I now see the OP specifically asked for shows set "partly" in New York City as well. So APPLAUSE and MAME certainly qualify. My bad.)



Updated On: 12/7/12 at 10:11 PM
darquegk
Broadway Legend
joined:2/5/09
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 10:20pm
It seems almost safe to say "MOST musicals."
bdn223
Broadway Star
joined:6/14/08
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 11:08pm
ELF
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Crazy for You
Jersey Boys (there is a scene in there)
Wedding Singer
42nd Street

Hair
Updated On: 12/7/12 at 11:08 PM
bdn223
Broadway Star
joined:6/14/08
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 11:08pm
ELF
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Crazy for You
Jersey Boys (there is a scene in there)
Wedding Singer
42nd Street
After Eight
Broadway Legend
joined:6/5/09
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 11:36pm
Up in Central Park
By the Beautiful Sea
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Make Mine Manhattan
The Nervous Set
Copper and Brass
Sophie
I Can Get It For You Wholesale
Jennie
Cafe Crown
Funny Girl
The Life
Spider-Man
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend
joined:9/16/07
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/7/12 at 11:49pm
Follies
justoldbill
Broadway Star
joined:10/17/07
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/8/12 at 12:57am
ME AND JULIET
BAJOUR
SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING

(MAME also stops off in Connecticut long enough for "That's How Young I Feel".)




Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
Updated On: 12/8/12 at 12:57 AM
eperkins
Featured Actor
joined:5/21/07
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/8/12 at 12:39pm
Saturday Night
No, No, Nanette
Irene

Updated On: 12/8/12 at 12:39 PM
Jon
Broadway Legend
joined:2/20/04
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/8/12 at 01:40pm
BIG
RAGTIME

...which got me thinking about musicals with scenes set in New Jersey:
BIG
RAGTIME
JERSEY BOYS
STEEL PIER
HIGH BUTTON SHOES
OVER AND OVER
NO NO NANETTE
Phantom of London
Broadway Legend
joined:3/26/08
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/8/12 at 07:32pm
Can I say a big thank you for all the great contributions so far.

The are some right esoteric ones in there, which I have never heard of before, so guess they were big fat Broadway flops.

keep them coming please.
2013 Shows: (New York: Glengarry Glen Ross*** Picnic**** The Lion King**** Mamma Mia**** Who's Afraid of Virginia Woofe**** The Other Place*** Nice Work, If You Can Get It** Annie**** The Phantom of the Opera**** Cat On A Hot Tin Roof*** Cinderella**** Evita**** (Final Performance) The Mystery of Edwin Drood*** Mary Poppins*****) London: Salad Days** Great Expectations*** This House** Chess**** A Chorus Line**** Quartermine's Terms**** Old Times*** The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time***** Dear World*** People**** Viva Forever** Peter and Alice** The Wimslow Boy***** Proof**** Our Country's Good* The Tailor Made Man**** Darling of the Day*** Top Hat*** A Judas Kiss*** Spamalot*** Once**** Wicked** A Chorus Line**** Book of Mormon***** Hairspray**** (Tour: Southampton) Sleeping Arrangements***** The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes*** The Pajama Game***(Chichester)The Thrill of Love*** Hymn**/Cocktail Sticks**** Merrily We Roll Along***** The Weir**** The Hot House**** The Rise and the Fall of the Little Voice***** (Churchill, Bromley) Ghost*** (Wimbledon) To Kill A Mockingbird*** (Open Air) Beautiful Thing*** The Phantom*** Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*** Relative Speaking****
humbugfoto
Broadway Legend
joined:6/16/07
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/8/12 at 11:03pm
Kiss Me, Kate
Sanity is on back order...sarcasm is in unlimited supply.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend
joined:12/1/09
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/8/12 at 11:49pm
Kiss Me, Kate is actually set at Ford's Theatre, Baltimore.
IMHO I see Queenie as being more of a brunette...
Citygirl.grace
Stand-by
joined:8/9/10
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/9/12 at 01:36am
I think it would be a smaller list to think of musicals NOT set in New York. Haha!
Sant
Broadway Legend
joined:9/12/04
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/9/12 at 08:52am
THE PRODUCERS?
After Eight
Broadway Legend
joined:6/5/09
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/9/12 at 09:34pm
Here are some others:

Here's Love
Kelly
Jimmy
Rags
One Touch of Venus
Park Avenue
Honky Tonk Nights
Heaven on Earth
Musical Chairs
The Girl in Pink Tights
Sweet Charity
I Had a Ball
Skyscraper
Henry, Sweet Henry
Maggie Flynn
Cry for Us All
Molly
So Long, 174th Street

henrikegerman
Broadway Legend
joined:4/29/05
Musicals Fully/Partly Set In New York?
Posted: 12/9/12 at 09:57pm
West Side Story
Hello Dolly (half the show)
A Chorus Line
Merrily We Roll Along (in large part)
Gypsy (in part)
Newsies
Falsettos
Golden Boy
How Now, Dow Jones
How to Suceeed in Business...
Anything Goes (beginning)
The Goodbye Girl
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Holly Golightly)
The Boy From Oz (part)
Sweet Smell of Success
A Class Act
The Wild Party
The Wild Party
Girl Crazy/Crazy for You (in part)
The Will Rogers Follies (in part)
Rags
New Girl in Town
Brigadoon (part)



Updated On: 12/9/12 at 09:57 PM

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