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Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by various composers and lyricists as arranged and orchestrated by Luther Henderson. It is named after the song by Fats Waller (with Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf), “Ain’t Misbehavin'”.
The musical is a tribute to the black musicians of the 1920s and 1930s who were part of the Harlem Renaissance, an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness, and ethnic pride, and takes its title from the 1929 Waller song “Ain’t Misbehavin'”. It was a time when Manhattan nightclubs like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom were the playgrounds of high society and Lenox Avenue dives were filled with piano players banging out the new beat known as swing. Five performers present an evening of rowdy, raunchy, and humorous songs that encapsulate the various moods of the era and reflect Waller’s view of life as a journey meant for pleasure and play.
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1978 | Best Musical | Winner |
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4 Musical Tenors: From Broadway To Hollywood
Carnegie Hall (5/23 - 5/23) LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN
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Cherry's On Top!
The Green Room 42 (6/26 - 6/26) COMEDY
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Pygmalion
Trinity Church (5/16 - 5/25) | ||
GOOD JEW
Edmond J. Safra Hall (6/6 - 6/6)
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The Lady on the Stairs
The Stonewall Inn (5/25 - 5/29) | ||
FRIGID Nightcap
UNDER St. Marks Theater (5/25 - 5/25) | ||
Broadway Sings: Heroes Forged in the Flame
The Green Room 42 (6/8 - 6/8) | ||
Sound and Fury and Shakespeare
The Parkside Players (5/18 - 6/2) NEW MUSICAL
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How to Survive an Apocalypse
St. Mark's Comedy Club (5/25 - 5/25) | ||
Death of a Driver
Factory Series at the Chain Theatre (6/14 - 5/23) | ||
It's Not What It Looks Like
SoHo Playhouse (7/24 - 8/10) | ||
Scott Wollschleger: Between Breath Record Release show
Roulette Intermedium (6/27 - 6/27) | ||
ALEKSEY ALEKSANDROVICH
The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater (6/20 - 6/30) | ||
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