Make Mine Manhattan

1948 Broadway revue

Make Mine Manhattan

Sheet music

Music| Richard Lewine
Lyrics| Arnold Horwitt

Make Mine Manhattan is a 1948 Broadway revue with music by Richard Lewine, lyrics by Hassard Short, and sketches by Arnold Horwitt and produced by Joseph Hyman.[1]

## Production

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Make Mine Manhattan premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on January 15, 1948, and closed on January 8, 1949, after 429 performances. It has previously had a tryout in Philadelphia at the Forrest Theatre for two weeks starting December 23, 1947.[2]

It was staged and lighted by Hassard Short, with sketches directed by Max Liebman; music directed by Charles Sanford; choreography by Lee Sherman, settings by Frederick Fox and costumes by Morton Haack.[3]

The company included Sid Caesar, in his Broadway debut, David Burns, Sheila Bond, Jack Kilty, Wayne Lamb, Kyle MacDonnell, Joshua Shelley and others. Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times called it "a very pleasant musical revue."[4]

David Ewin described the show as follows: "Perhaps its greatest significance lay in the fact that it introduced Sid Caesar as one of the supreme comics of our time."[5]

## Songs

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* "Phil the Fiddler"
* "Movie House in Manhattan"
* "Traftz"
* "The Good Old Days"
* "Saturday Night in Central Park"
* "Ringalevio"
* "Noises in the Street"
* "Subway Song"
* "A Night Out"
* "My Brudder and Me"
* "Gentleman Friend"
* "I Don't Know Her Name"
* "I Fell in Love with You"

## References

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1. ^ broadway-production/make-mine-manhattan-1639/fullcredits Make Mine Manhattan at Internet Broadway Database
2. ^ Philadelphia Inquirer, Wednesday, December 24, 1947, p. 14.
3. ^ Chapman, John, ed., The Burns Mantle Best Plays of 1947–48, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1948, p. 377.
4. ^ The New York Times, January 16, 1948, p. 26.
5. ^ Ewen, David, Complete Book of the American Musical Theater, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1958, p. 372

## External links

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* ​Make Mine Manhattan​ at the Internet Broadway Database
* ​Make Mine Manhattan​ at the Playbill Vault
* The Lost Musicals: Make Mine Manhattan at the New York Public Library
* 2012 Revival - New York Times review
* 2012 Revival - CurtainUp review