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Nov. 7-23, 2008
New Book by Stuart Ross
Lyrics by Cole Porter
Director - Stuart Ross
Musical Director - Daryl Archibald
Choreographer - Lee Martino
Honorary Producers
Richard Neri & Kurt Schulzman
Ackerman Family/Evalyn Bauer Foundation
Associate Producers
Kathryn Baker Campbell
Fred & Char Gamm
Earl & Louise Shea
Click above to listen to a clip of Fred Astaire singing "All of You" from the MGM feature film Silk Stockings
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Silk Stockings
Starring Amy Pietz as Ninothcka
(Annie in NBC's Caroline in the City)
Musical Theatre West is thrilled to open 56th Anniversary Season with the world premiere of this all new adaptation of the classic
Cole Porter musical.
Soviet-American relations were never funnier or had more singing and dancing than in this delightful tale involving a U.S. director, a Soviet composer scoring his film, and a pretty Russian spy trying to keep the composer from defecting.
In this musical remake of the 1939 classic film NINOTCHKA. An alluring but aloof female Communist visits Paris on an assignment to evaluate three Russian officials. But when she meets a charming U.S. filmmaker there, her perspective on the world changes -- and the chilly bureaucrat soon finds herself melting in his arms.
Iit's not long before she's enjoying such decadent western pleasures as jazz, makeup and silk stockings. The classic Cole Porter songs include "All of You", "Stereophonic Sound", "Too Bad" "Paris Loves Lovers", "Silk Stockings", and "Fated to be Mated".
An image from the original Broadway production of Silk Stockings
Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse from
the classic MGM film version of Silk Stockings
Greta G arbo in the legendary film Ninotchka |
