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Knickerbocker Holiday

Libretto and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson
Music by Kurt Weill
Based on Washington Irving's
The History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker
Produced by Playwrights' Company
Directed by Joshua Logan
Choreography by Carl Randall & Edwin Denby
Opened October 19, 1938 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and ran for 168 Performances.
Movie -1944

Synopsis

Musical - Governor Pieter Stuyvesant and nobody Brom Broeck, whose most notable trait is an urge to attack anyone who gives him an order. Both want to marry the same girl, Tina. Brom stays alive by his strength and wits, which are superior to those of anyone else in Nieuw Amsterdam. Even though Brom saves Stuyvesant's life during a battle with the local Indians in the second act, Stuyvesant would still hang him for insubordination, until Irving intervenes. Then Stuyvesant relents and allows Brom to go free and marry Tina.

Movie - It's 1650 in New Amsterdam, and Brom Broeck, a young outspoken newspaper publisher is arrested for printing advanced opinions on the undemocratic rule of Governor "Peg-Leg" Stuyvesant. While Brom is in prison, old "Peg-Leg" goes on the make for Brom's sweetheart. But, when "Peg-Leg" is forced to release Brom, watch out!

Song List

Broadway Production

Washington Irving Song
Clickety-Clack
Entrance of the Council
Hush Hush
There's Nowhere to Go But Up
It Never Was You
How Can You Tell an American?
Will You Remember Me?
One Touch of Alchemy
The One Indispensable Man
Young People Think About Love
September Song
All Hail the Political Honeymoon
Ballad of the Robbers
Sitting in Jail
We Are Cut in Twain
To War!
Our Ancient Liberties
May and January
The Scars
Dirge for a Soldier
We Want to Make the Laws

Movie Version

Overture:Dutch March & September Song
Hear Ye
There's Nowhere to Go But Up
Holiday
Let's Make Tomorrow Today
Love Has Made This Such a Lovely Day
Spanish dance
Zuyder Zee
September Song
Jail Song
One More Smile
The One Indispensable Man
Sing Out
Let's Make Tomorrow Today reprise

Info

Original Cast included: Walter Huston, Ray Middleton, Jeanne Madden, Richard Kollmar, Robert Rounseville, Howard Freeman & Clarence Nordstrom

Oscar nomination: Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (Werner R. Heymann and Kurt Weill).

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