Subways Are for Sleeping

Musical

Writers: Betty Comden Adolph Green Jule Styne

Overview

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Music
Based on the Play/Book/Film
Edmund G. Love's article in Harper's and subsequent book
Category
Musical
Number of Acts
2
First Produced
1961
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Settings
Period
Time & Place
New York City, 1960s
Cast Size
large
Casting Notes
Mostly male cast

Synopsis

Subways are for Sleeping concerns Angie McKay, a magazine writer assigned to write a story about a certain group of well-dressed homeless people sleeping in the New York subway. The leader of this group of well-dressed drifters is Tom Bailey, a one-man employment agency who finds other drifters odd jobs and sleeping quarters. To help research her story, Angie goes undercover and pretends to be a stranded girl from out-of-town. She quickly befriends Tom. Trouble ensues when Tom discovers that Angie is really a reporter.

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