The New Yorkers NYC Reviews and Tickets

80%

(82 Ratings)

Positive

85%

Mixed

11%

Negative

Members say

Great singing, Entertaining, Delightful, Funny, Dated

About the Show

Encores! presents a concert version of Cole Porter’s 1930 musical, an evening of sophisticated Depression-era madness.

Bullets fly and bathtub gin flows in this gleefully amoral celebration of speakeasies, gangsters, society dames, and the great city they love. The show centers on featherbrained socialite Alice Wentworth, whose bootlegger beau leads her on a madcap romp from Park Avenue to Sing Sing and back again. Although 'The New Yorkers' produced a number of standards—'I Happen to Like New York,' 'Love for Sale'—much of the original material has been lost, making this Encores!’s most ambitious musical reconstruction ever.

Show-Score Member Reviews (82)

Delightful, Enchanting, A frothy gin soaked romp

See it if You love Cole Porter, madcap zany films from the 30's, fab choreography and martinis - lots of martinis

Don't see it if effervescent escapism is not your thing -

Delightful, Enchanting, Entertaining, Great singing, Refreshing

See it if Encore Series shows have only a brief run. Unfortunately the last performance of The New Yorkers was last night.

Don't see it if Anyone who likes Cole Porter style music and musicals would love this show.

Entertaining, Funny

See it if you like Cole Porter and enjoy watching an excellent orchestra (they are on stage the entire time).

Don't see it if you expect elaborate staging.

Clever, Enchanting, Entertaining, Great singing, Great dancing

See it if You love Cole Porter, love New York, love old shtick and want to see a great cast. Cyrille Aimee was a standout as was entire cast.

Don't see it if You can't take broad comedy or prohibition era gangsters meets super rich plot

Clever, Funny, Great singing, Great staging, Great writing

See it if you love Cole Porter music and you want to see a truly forgotten musical that became source material for so many musicals that followed.

Don't see it if you can't imagine what seeing this would be like during prohibition and the depression or you dislike great music and writing.

Delightful, Ambitious, Funny

See it if you love classic American Musical Theatre in its early form--crazy fun and at times illogical.

Don't see it if you can't have fun. Or want to see HAMILTON.

Delightful, Enchanting, Entertaining, Ambitious

See it if You want to experience an entertaining 1930's review. You want to discover some great new musical talents: Stratten, Mutu, Burton & Aimee.

Don't see it if You require a plot to bear a relationship to reality. You don't like Cole Porter. You want your theater to be "serious".

Clever, Delightful, Entertaining, Funny, Great singing

See it if you're a fan of Cole Porter and have an interest in rare shows.

Don't see it if you only see message musicals. If so, your loss. Read more

Critic Reviews (13)

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