In what is surely the surprise of the day (for me), next year City Center will put on a limited run of the 1930 play The New Yorkers. The play, with music by Cole Porter as well as Jimmy Durante, was based on “a seed of an idea” [NYTs] by …Peter Arno.
Below: sheet music cover art by Arno. Details on the revival here.
(You can find much more on the play in my biography of Arno in the chapter “Up Broadway…and Down” )
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Jake Goldwasser, one of the half-score of brand new cartoonists debuting in the New Yorker (so far) this year, is the subject of Jane Mattimoe’s latest blog post on A Case For Pencils. See it here!