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Photo Coverage: PANAMA HATTIE Opens at The York Theatre

By: Oct. 28, 2019
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Celebrating Broadway's legendary Cole Porter! The York Theatre Company launches their 50th Anniversary Season with its acclaimed Musicals in Mufti series celebrating the legendary Broadway composer Cole Porter. The series honors the illustrious songwriter behind such classics as Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Gay Divorce, Silk Stockings, Red, Hot and Blue, and Can-Can, to name a few.

Closing out the 2019 Fall Mufti series is the 1940's hit musical Panama Hattie, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva. Cole Porter and Ethel Merman teamed up for their fourth hit with 1940's Panama Hattie, in which a brassy nightclub owner must bid for the approval of her fiancé's family-a task only made more complicated when she discovers a plan to blow up the Panama Canal. With a raucous book about sailors and singers in the Panama Canal Zone and a snappy Porter score that includes "Let's Be Buddies," "I've Still Got My Health," and "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please," Panama Hattie was a smash in its day; Brooks Atkinson in The New York Times stated, "if the Navy ever hears about Panama Hattie, it will be hard to keep the fleet in the Pacific. As far as that goes, it is going to be hard to keep New Yorkers at home in the evenings this winter."

Performances began October 26, 2019 and will continue for a limited run through November 3, 2019 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue).

Check out photos from opening night below!

Photo Credit: Genevieve Rafter Keddy

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James Morgan

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Gordon Stanley, Klea Blackhurst and Stephen Bogardus

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Lael Van Keuren, David Green, Anita Welch, Simon Jones and Zuri Washington

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Lael Van Keuren, David Green, Anita Welch, Simon Jones, Zuri Washington, Klea Blackhurst, Kylie Kuioka, Stephen Borgardus, Joe Veale, Garen McRoberts, Jay Aubrey Jones and Casey Shuler

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Klea Blackhurst, Kylie Kuioka and Stephen Borgardus

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Simon Jones

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Klea Blackhurst, Kylie Kuioka, Stephen Borgardus, Gordon Stanley, Joe Veale, Garen McRoberts and Jay Aubrey Jones

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Klea Blackhurst, Kylie Kuioka, Stephen Borgardus, Gordon Stanley and Joe Veale

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Zuri Washington, Klea Blackhurst and Kylie Kuioka

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Ron Abel and Lucie Arnaz

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Mark William

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Jamie deRoy

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Shelly Markham and Jamie deRoy

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Riki Kane Larimer and Bill Castellino

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Marilyn Maye and Richard Maltby, Jr.

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Marilyn Maye, Riki Kane Larimer and Richard Maltby, Jr.

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Casey Shuler

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Stephen Borgardus

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Joe Veale

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Joe Veale and Garen McRoberts

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David Green

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Kylie Kuioka

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Simon Jones

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Simon Jones and Casey Shuler

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Simon Jones and Casey Shuler

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Lael Van Keuren

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Gordon Stanley

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Anita Welch

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Jay Aubrey Jones

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Zuri Washington

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Zuri Washington and Lillias White

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Zuri Washington, Lillias White and Anita Welch

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Klea Blackhurst and Lucie Arnaz

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Klea Blackhurst and Lucie Arnaz

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Klea Blackhurst

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Klea Blackhurst and Mark William

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Klea Blackhurst , Judy Kaye, Lucie Arnaz and David Green

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Judy Kaye and David Green

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Deniz Cordell (Music Director), Michael Montel (Director) and Trent Kidd (Choreographer)

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Klea Blackhurst , Deniz Cordell, Michael Montel, Trent Kidd and James Morgan

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Norman Meranus, Klea Blackhurst , Deniz Cordell, Michael Montel, Trent Kidd and James Morgan

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Klea Blackhurst and Marilyn Maye

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David Green, Lael Van Keuren, Simon Jones, Stephen Borgardus, Anita Welch, Klea Blackhurst, Kylie Kuioka, Joe Veale Gordon Stanley, Zuri Washington, Casey Shuler, Jay Aubrey Jones and Garen McRoberts

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James Morgan, Trent Kidd and Deniz Cordell join with tonight's cast- David Green, Lael Van Keuren, Simon Jones, Stephen Borgardus, Anita Welch, Klea Blackhurst, Kylie Kuioka, Joe Veale Gordon Stanley, Zuri Washington, Casey Shuler, Jay Aubrey Jones and Garen McRoberts

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Riki Kane Larimer and Joan Ross Sorkin

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Klea Blackhurst and Richard Skipper

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Klea Blackhurst

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Jacqueline K. Parker and Klea Blackhurst

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Mark William, Klea Blackhurst and Richie Ridge

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Kylie Kuioka and Marilyn Maye

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Marilyn Maye, Lucie Arnaz, Kimothy Cruse, Jack Wetherall and Brian Vestal

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Klea Blackhurst and Kylie Kuioka

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Richie Ridge, Simon Jones and Mark William

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Garen McRoberts



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