Pins and Needles 1937

Opened: November 27, 1937

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Photos: Go Inside Opening Night of I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE
by Jennifer Broski - Oct 31, 2023

Classic Stage Company's I Can Get It For You Wholesale just celebrated opening night! Check out photos from inside the festivities!

Review Roundup: I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE Opens At Classic Stage Company
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 30, 2023

I Can Get It For You Wholesale opens tonight at Classic Stage Company. Read the reviews!

I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE Extends at Classic Stage Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 19, 2023

I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE has been extended at Classic Stage Company. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Adam Chanler-Berat, Rebecca Naomi Jones and More Join I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE at Classic Stage Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 23, 2023

Classic Stage Company has announced additional cast members for its fall production of I Can Get It For You Wholesale. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!

Santino Fontana & Judy Kuhn to Star in I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE at Classic Stage Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 22, 2023

Classic Stage Company has announced complete programming for their 2023-2024 Season. See what shows are in the lineup, who is starring, how to purchase tickets, and more!

Foundry Theatre To Close With Final Production, The Book A MOMENT ON THE CLOCK OF THE WORLD
by Julie Musbach - Oct 1, 2019

For a quarter century, The Foundry Theatre has raised provocative and timely questions with innovative theatrical productions, public dialogues, and community organizing that have inspired a generation of artists, activists, and organizations.

Downtown Music Productions and Howl Gallery Present PINS AND NEEDLES
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 24, 2016

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire Pins and Needles, music direction by Stern-Wolfe, stage direction by Larry Marshall, choreography by Mercedes Ellington,Tuesday October 25, 7 PM, at the Howl Gallery, 6 East 1st Street.  (All proceeds will go to the Actor's Fund and HOWL Help.)  With its critically acclaimed score and lyrics, Pins and Needles,  written in 1937, is a unique call for social justice and equity.

Review - Lend Me A Tenor & The Broadway Musicals of 1937
by Michael Dale - Feb 25, 2013

If the Broadway revival of a few years back demonstrated the deadly results that can occur when overthinking and underplaying a quality farce, the new Paper Mill mounting is a fast a furious example of Ken Ludwig's madcap Lend Me A Tenor done right.  Director Don Stephenson doesn't throw any fancy curveballs with the material, but he and his perfectly cast company of Broadway vets nail every door slam and verbal ping-pong volley with hilarious aplomb.

LaMama E.T.C. & Ailey Citigroup Present Theatre and Dance Shows, Now thru 11/4
by BWW News Desk - Oct 27, 2012

This weekend get your fill of Theater, Musical Theater, and Dance at three great productions: Triple Shadow continues at LaMaMa E.T.C. through November 4th, Korhan Basaran Dance at Ailey Citigroup Theatre, and Downtown Music Productions in Harold Rome's PINS AND NEEDLES.

LaMaMa E.T.C. & Howl Arts Inc. Present Harold Rome's 1937 PINS AND NEEDLES, 10/27 - 28
by BWW News Desk - Oct 27, 2012

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire PINS AND NEEDLES, music direction by Stern-Wolfe, stage direction of Jonathan Cerullo. The revue will take place tonight, October 27th at 10 pm and October 28th at 5:30 pm in The Club at LaMaMa E.T.C.

LaMama E.T.C. & Ailey Citigroup To Present Theatre and Dance Shows This Weekend
by Patrick Nugent - Oct 24, 2012

This weekend get your fill of Theater, Musical Theater, and Dance at three great productions: Triple Shadow continues at LaMaMa E.T.C. through November 4, Korhan Basaran Dance at Ailey Citigroup Theatre, and Downtown Music Productions in Harold Rome's PINS AND NEEDLES.

LaMama's HOWL! Benefit Begins With Two-Night Performance of PINS AND NEEDLES, 10/27-28
by Sierra Fox - Oct 18, 2012

LaMaMa, in association with HOWL! Arts Inc, will host a four night benefit to support HOWL! H.E.L.P., a safety net for East Village artists in crisis administered by the Actors Fund. The benefit begins on October 27 and 28 with performance of Harold Rome's Pins and Needles.

LaMaMa E.T.C. & Howl Arts Inc. To Present Harold Rome's 1937 PINS AND NEEDLES, 10/27 - 28
by Patrick Nugent - Oct 11, 2012

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire PINS AND NEEDLES, music direction by Stern-Wolfe, stage direction of Jonathan Cerullo. The revue will take place on October 27th at 10 pm and October 28th at 5:30 pm in The Club at LaMaMa E.T.C.

A MAP OF VIRTUE Plays 4th Street Theater 2/6-25
by BWW News Desk - Feb 6, 2012

At the conclusion of this final season, which begins with the world premiere of A Map of Virtue by Erin Courtney in February, the collective of American playwrights will have realized full productions by each of its 13 members.

A MAP OF VIRTUE Plays 4th Street Theater 2/6-25
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 24, 2012

At the conclusion of this final season, which begins with the world premiere of A Map of Virtue by Erin Courtney in February, the collective of American playwrights will have realized full productions by each of its 13 members.

13P Begins Final Season with A Map of Virtue
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 5, 2012

Performances of A Map of Virtue will take place February 6-25 at the 4th Street Theatre. The 4th Street Theatre is located at 83 East 4th Street in New York City.

Two River Theater Presents Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England
by BWW News Desk - Oct 15, 2011

Two River Theater Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Dias and Managing Director Michael Hurst, continues its season with the world premiere of Madeleine George's Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.

PINS & NEEDLES Plays Theatre80 For Howl! 10/14, 10/15
by Gabrielle Sierra - Oct 14, 2011

Downtown Music Productions and HOWL! Arts Project present the 1937 Topical Musical Revue PINS AND NEEDLES.

Downtown Music Productions and the HOWL Fest Present PINS AND NEEDLES
by BWW News Desk - Oct 14, 2011

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire 'Pins and Needles,' music direction by Stern-Wolfe and stage direction by Eleanor Reissa, October 14 & 15 at Theater 80 St. Mark's, as part of the HOWL Festival.

Downtown Music Productions and the HOWL Fest Present PINS AND NEEDLES
by Gabrielle Sierra - Oct 10, 2011

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire 'Pins and Needles,' music direction by Stern-Wolfe and stage direction by Eleanor Reissa, October 14 & 15 at Theater 80 St. Mark's, as part of the HOWL Festival.

Two River Theater Presents Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England
by Gabrielle Sierra - Sep 28, 2011

Two River Theater Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Dias and Managing Director Michael Hurst, continues its season with the world premiere of Madeleine George's Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.

Downtown Music Productions and the HOWL Fest Present PINS AND NEEDLES
by Gabrielle Sierra - Sep 16, 2011

Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions will appear in a revival of Harold Rome's witty satire 'Pins and Needles,' music direction by Stern-Wolfe and stage direction by Eleanor Reissa, October 14 & 15 at Theater 80 St. Mark's, as part of the HOWL Festival.

Photo Coverage: PINS AND NEEDLES At The Cock Tavern
by Carrie Dunn - Nov 17, 2010

Harold Rome's 1937 Broadway musical revue Pins and Needles is beginning its UK premiere run at Kilburn's Cock Tavern, which ends on December 11th.

Review - Hooray For What! & Steel Magnolias
by Michael Dale - Mar 24, 2008

You wouldn't expect a 1937 Broadway musical that satirized American profiteering from wartime rumblings in Europe and was written to showcase the unique comedy talents of 'The Perfect Fool' Ed Wynn to be especially playable in the year 2008, but The Medicine Show, on their tiny stage way out west on W. 52nd Street, do a bang-up job with Hooray For What!

In Gratitude: A Fan's Remembrance of Harold Rome
by Bruce F. Winston - May 31, 2006

Bruce F. Winston remembers his 'musical theatre mentor' Harold Rome, the composer/lyricist of Call Me Mister, Fanny, I Can Get It for You Wholesale and more

Pins and Needles FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

First Impressions
Why Sing of Skies Above!
Mussolini Handicap
Public Enemy Number One
The General Unveiled
We'd Rather Be Right [i]
We'd Rather Be Right [ii]
The Little Red Schoolhouse
Sunday in the Park
Dear Beatrice Fairfax
Economics I [i]
Economics I [ii]
Men Awake
Lesson in Etiquette
F.T.P. Plowed Under
What Good Is Love?
One Big Union for Two
Vassar Girl Finds a Job
Four Little Angels of Peace
Slumming Party
Doin' the Reactionary
We've Just Begun
Brittania Waives the Rules
Papa Lewis, Mama Green
I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love
The Red Mikado
Mene, Mene, Tekel
The Harmony Boys [i]
The Harmony Boys [ii]
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
It's Better with a Union Man
We Sing America
Stay Out, Sammy
Sitting on Your Status Quo
Back to Work
Oh, Give Me the Good Old Days
G-Man
What This Party Needs
Lorelei on the Rocks
Song of the Ads
The Yanks Aren't Coming
Room for One
Call It Un-American
I'm Just Nuts About You
The Pluto Boys
Hold On to Your Hats, Boys, Here We Go Again
History, Eight to the Bar
All Alone on the Lone Prairie
Cream of Mush [i]
Cream of Mush [ii]
Paradise Mislaid
Poker Players
1+1=1
Man of the Year
Pins and Needles has had 3 productions including Broadway which opened in 1937, Broadway which opened in 1937 and Off-Broadway which opened in 1978.

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