Park Avenue
(1946)
Book by George S. Kaufman and Nunnally Johnson

Music by Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
An unusual and sophisticated show, written by some of the finest talents of the musical theater, with material far ahead of its time. Park Avenue is a small-scale farce involving the dangers of apparent serial monogamy among New York’s upper classes.
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The Plot
Set in the Hamptons, Park Avenue involves a series of mistaken identities and misbegotten marriages and love affairs. A brittle musical comedy that was overlooked in the middle of the post-war return to homespun values, the show nevertheless deserves another viewing, especially with such witty songs as “Don’t Be a Woman if You Can,” by Schwartz and Gershwin.
About The Play
An unusual and sophisticated show, written by some of the finest talents of the musical theater, with material far ahead of its time. Park Avenue is a small-scale farce involving the dangers of apparent serial monogamy among New York’s upper classes.
Other Plays in the Catalogue
A dramatic epic story of assimilation, patriotism and prejudice in America. Kaufman and Hart’s most serious play, The American Way galvanized audiences at the large Century Theater in Rockefeller Center in the last days of the 1930s; it starred Frederic March as the leading character.
George Washington Slept Here opened at the Lyceum Theater on October 18, 1940. It ran 173 performances, but has never had a Broadway revival.
Silk Stockings' producers, Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin, had a success with Guys and Dolls in 1950. Attempting to work again with Kaufman, who directed that production, they ultimately balked at the romantic aspect of Kaufman's adaptation of the film, which he wrote with his second wife, Leueen MacGrath.
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