Very Warm for May
Musical
Stephen Sondheim...biography, Stephen Sondheim: A Life. He graduated New York Military Academy in 1946. Sondheim traces his interest in theater to Very Warm for May, a Broadway musical he saw at the age of nine. "The curtain went up and revealed a... In this article: Stephen Joshua Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway, Bounce, A Little Night Music, and George Furth |
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
All the Things You Are
"All the Things You Are" is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was written for the musical Very Warm for May (1939), where it was introduced by Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, and...
In this article: All the Things You Are, Charlie Parker, Sergei Rachmaninoff, A Letter for Evie, Broadway Rhythm, Lee Konitz, Judi Dench, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, and MGM
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Jerome Kern
...adapted twice for television, both times especially as a vehicle for Bob Hope. Kern's last Broadway show was the rather unsuccessful Very Warm for May (1939), although the score included another Kern/Hammerstein classic, "All The Things You...
In this article: Jerome David Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway, Show Boat, London, All the Things You Are, Far Away, The Way You Look Tonight, Hollywood, and The Last Time I Saw Paris
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Very Warm for May
...years in Hollywood writing music for movies, including Swing Time for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Vincente Minnelli directed Very Warm for May, which contained such favorite songs as "All the Things You Are", "All in Fun", and "In the...
In this article: Jerome Kern, All the Things You Are, Stephen Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein II, Eve Arden, Sweet Adeline, and New York World-Telegram
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Vera-Ellen
...in ''On the Town '' (1949) In 1939, Vera-Ellen made her Broadway theatre debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein musical Very Warm for May at the age of 18. She became one of the youngest Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall,...
In this article: Vera Ellen Westmeier Rohe, Fred Astaire, Anorexia nervosa, Cancer, Donald O'Connor, Jerome Kern, and Gene Kelly
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Richard Quine
...actor and film director. Quine was born in Detroit. He made his Broadway debut in the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Very Warm for May in 1939 and appeared in My Sister Eileen '' the following year. His screen acting credits...
In this article: Richard Quine, McCoy, Susan Peters, Peter Sellers, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, Suicide, Anorexia nervosa, World War II, United States Coast Guard, and Britain
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Broadway Rhythm
...his daughter, Patsy (DeHaven) and also Helen. Johnnie feels betrayed by his father. The film is very loosely based on the Broadway musical Very Warm for May (1939). However, all the songs from the musical except for "All the Things You Are"...
In this article: Ginny Simms, Broadway Rhythm, Broadway Melody of 1940, George Murphy, Cover Girl, Louis B. Mayer, MGM, and Eleanor Powell
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...as isolated and emotionally neglected in Meryl Secrest's biography, Sondheim: A Life. Sondheim traces his interest in theater to Very Warm for May, a Broadway musical he saw at the age of nine. "The curtain went up and revealed a piano,"...
In this article: Stephen Joshua Sondheim, Frank Rich, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Mary Rodgers
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SFGate: Entertainment | April 20, 2009
Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene
...careers into high gear and put the "Fascinating Rhythm" into the Jazz Age, 1924's "Lady, Be Good!" Kern's last Broadway musical, "Very Warm for May" (written with Oscar Hammerstein II), closes the season next May. More Kern and...
In this article: Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Grammy, and Irving Berlin
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Very Warm for May opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 17, 1939. It was written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and was the team's final score for Broadway, following their hits Show Boat, Sweet Adeline, and Music in the Air. It marked a return to Broadway for Kern, who had spent several years in Hollywood writing music for movies, including Swing Time for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Vincente Minnelli directed Very Warm for May, which contained such favorite songs as "All the Things You Are", "All in Fun", and "In the Heart of the Dark." Gerald Bordman, author of the definitive Kern biography Jerome Kern: His Life and Music, hailed the score as one of Kern's finest.
Very Warm for May ran on Broadway for two months, with June Allyson, Eve Arden, and Vera-Ellen among the performers. It closed after 59 performances. It received mixed reviews, with the New York World-Telegram calling the show "Gay and delightful" and finding the songs to be "the most charming that Kern and Hammerstein have ever written", while the New York Times yawned, "Very Warm for May is not so hot for November", and Robert Benchley of The New Yorker praised the show as "Lovely to the ear and complimentary to the intelligence...unlike most musicals, (it) actually gets better and funnier as it goes on."
Part of the lukewarm response may have been due to a book that was changed at the last minute. Very Warm for May opened out of town with a plot that had Long Island society girl May Graham fleeing threatening gangsters and hiding out with an avant-garde summer stock troupe in Connecticut. Eve Arden portrayed a dizzy society matron. This first version of the show received rave reviews and played to sold-out houses.
- Name:
- Very Warm for May
- Music By:
- Jerome Kern
- Productions:
- 1939 Broadway
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