No, No, Nanette
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 8, 2008
Closed May 12, 2008

Playing at
New York City Center

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

With some of the most famous show tunes ever written, like "Tea for Two" and "I Want to be Happy", No, No, Nanette's 1971 production, on which this Encores! production is based, started the nostalgia craze on Broadway. Refreshing, uplifting and jubilant, it tells the story of Jimmy Smith and all the trouble he gets into and out of one madcap summer weekend. This production stars Rosie O'Donnell and Beth Leavel.

No, No, Nanette is presented as part of the Encores! Series at New York City Center.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

New York City Center
130 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019

One of New Yorks Grande Dames of the theater district, City Center is home to Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Encore! series of Lost Musicals and The Manhattan Theater Club's Stage 1. Newly renovated and very comfortable, the theater seats 2684 patro [...] Read More

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The story goes that in 1919 Boston Red Sox owner Harry Herbert Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in order to put money into a pre-Broadway version of the musical, No, No, Nanette. While the tale may not be completely true, it works to Frazee's ever-lasting credit now, as evidenced by the City Center Encores' diverting version of No, No, Nanette, gleefully directed by Walter Bobbie. Indeed, only a curmudgeon would take up negative adjectives against a show which tries so consistently to follow through on a lyric in its most-reprised Vincent Youmans-Irving Caesar song: "I want to be happy, but I won't be happy till I make you happy, too."

If the occasionally exhilarating product[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on May 9, 2008