Subways are for Sleeping, the 1961 Broadway musical with music by Jule Styne and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, is coming back to Manhattan.
The York Theatre Company is presenting the musical as its final show in the Winter 2018 Musicals in Mufti Series, celebrating the work of composer Jule Styne.
The show is set to open Feb. 24 and run for 11 performances only, in a script in hand format with a cast of performers who have appeared on Broadway, through Sunday, March 4.
Performances are being presented by the York Theatre Company at Saint Peter’s (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). Opening Night is Sunday Feb. 25, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.
Directed by Stuart Ross and with music direction by David Hancock Turner, the cast will feature Karl Josef Co, David Engel, Beth Glover, David Josefsberg, Alyse Alan Louis, Kathryn McCreary, Gerry McIntyre, Gina Milo, Eric William Morris and Kilty Reidy.
The musical, inspired by the book by Edmund Love and originally produced by David Merrick, tells the story of a reporter sent to get the scoop on a group of well-dressed homeless people sleeping in the New York subway system.
As part of the publicity campaign for the original Broadway production, New Yorkers with the same names as some of the city’s most prominent theater critics at the time were quoted in advertisements.
The York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti series presented shows in a simply-staged, book-in-hand concert format.