Fifty Million Frenchmen
Fifty Million Frenchmen
79% 13 reviews
79%
(13 Ratings)
Positive
85%
Mixed
15%
Negative
0%
Members say
Entertaining, Delightful, Clever, Fluffy, Disappointing

About the Show

This 1929 Cole Porter musical offers a classic boy-meets-girl story set in the city of love. Part of "The Musicals in Mufti" series of minimally staged, script-in-hand productions of underappreciated Broadway musicals.

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Critic Reviews (5)

BroadwayWorld
October 5th, 2019

"The York Serves Up Vintage Cole Porter With 'FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN'"
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Lighting & Sound America
October 1st, 2019

"As was always the case, the crossbreeding of Porter and Paris yields a harvest of double entendres, here delivered with brio by a pair of standout performers…..A must for Porter fans and students of vintage musicals."
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Talkin' Broadway
September 29th, 2019

"The 1929 hit is a whoop of joy from the late Jazz Age with one of Porter's sauciest, most impudent scores. And if the book, by Herbert Fields, isn't a humdinger, it doesn't overly get in the way of the fun, either. That said, this Mufti does screw a couple of things up."
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TheaterScene.net
October 3rd, 2019

"However, even after all these years the show is both entertaining and smart and offers a pleasant evening in the theater. Another plus is that it features a great many top-drawer Cole Porter songs that will be unfamiliar to most theatergoers."
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Theatre is Easy
October 6th, 2019

"Kristy Cates, as an American tourist looking to be 'shocked' in Paris (that's literally the extent of her character development), runs away with the show…Porter's lyrics pop with their usual charm and occasional acerbity…most of the show feels snugly rooted in 1929."
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