Overview
Synopsis
The show concerns a group of senior citizens living on New York's Upper West Side who learn that the long-term hotel they live in will be sold off to developers - making the seniors homeless. To save the hotel, the seniors form a ring of unlikely thieves, wreaking havoc in stores from Sadies' Second Hand Furs to Bloomingdales. In the process, they regain their zest for life. The seniors proceed to use their ill-gotten gains to spruce up their digs and to provide safe harbor for other poor seniors. The musical is based on the 1960 British film 'Make Mine Mink' and its antecedent, Peter Coke's 1958 London stage comedy, Breath of Spring.
Show Information
- Music
- John Kander
- Lyrics
- Fred Ebb
- Category
- Musical
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Number of Acts
- 2
- First Produced
- 1971
- Genres
- Comedy
- Time & Place
- new york city, the cornucopia tea room, the broadhurst theatre, ida's room, sadie's fur salon, lobby of sussex arms, arctic cold storage co, the coliseum, a chapel
- Cast Size
- medium
- Licensor
- Tams Witmark Music Library
- Ideal For
- Mostly Female Cast, Includes Mature Adult, Elderly, Adult Characters, Medium Cast
Context
Plot
Characters
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Songs
Act I
- Old Folks
- Home
- Broadway My Street
- The Caper
- Coffee in a Cardboard Cup
- You and I, Love
- Do We?
- Hit It, Lorraine
- See the Light
Act II
- Boom Ditty Boom
- Believe
- Go Visit your grandmother
- 70, Girls, 70
- The Elephant Song
- Yes
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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