A Long, Long "Weill": Knickerbocker Holiday Gets a Starry NYC Revival

The little-known Broadway musical that gave the world "September Song" resurfaces in a starry Manhattan concert Jan. 25-26. We explain Knickerbocker Holiday.

It's been a long, long while since New Yorkers have heard the full orchestration of Knickerbocker Holiday, the 1938 Kurt Weill–Maxwell Anderson musical that includes "September Song."

That will be remedied on Jan. 25-26 with a star-studded concert presented by The Collegiate Chorale at Alice Tully Hall. Tony Award winner Ted Sperling directs a cast of Broadway veterans including Kelli O'Hara, Victor Garber, Christopher Fitzgerald, Ben Davis, Bryce Pinkham and David Garrison. James Bagwell conducts the American Symphony Orchestra and a chorus of 65. The full score will be performed, but the book has been trimmed for what Sperling calls a "fleet on its feet" entertainment. The presentation will be recorded live by Sh-k-boom/Ghostlight Records.

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