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Silk Stockings is a musical
Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece ? humor, pathos, love, anger ? as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole....
 with a book by George S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theatre director and theatre producer, humorist, and drama critic....
, Leueen MacGrath
Leueen MacGrath

Leueen MacGrath was a Great Britain actor and playwright and the second wife of George S. Kaufman, from 1949 until their divorce in 1957....
, and Abe Burrows
Abe Burrows

Abe Burrows was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage....
 and music and lyrics by Cole Porter
Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
.

Loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel
Melchior Lengyel

Melchior Lengyel, born Lebovics Menyh?rt, was a Hungary writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter....
 story Ninotchka and the 1939 film adaptation
Ninotchka

Ninotchka is a 1939 in film American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas....
 it inspired, it focuses on special envoy
Envoy

Envoy may refer to:*an Envoy *a Diplomatic_rank#Multilateral_diplomacy*a diplomat in general*Envoy , the British Vauxhall cars for Canadian market in 1960-'70...
 Nina Yaschenko, who is dispatched from the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 to rescue three foolish commissar
Commissar

Commissar is the English transliteration of an official title The title was mostly associated with a number of Cheka and military functions in many Bolshevik and Soviet government military forces during the Russian Civil War; the White Army widely used the collective term bolsheviks and commissars for their opponents....
s from the pleasures of Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. Romanced by theatrical agent Steven Canfield, she eventually comes to recognize the virtues of capitalist
Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system in which wealth, and the means of producing wealth, are private property and controlled rather than commonly, publicly, or state-owned and controlled....
 indulgence.






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Silk Stockings is a musical
Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece ? humor, pathos, love, anger ? as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole....
 with a book by George S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theatre director and theatre producer, humorist, and drama critic....
, Leueen MacGrath
Leueen MacGrath

Leueen MacGrath was a Great Britain actor and playwright and the second wife of George S. Kaufman, from 1949 until their divorce in 1957....
, and Abe Burrows
Abe Burrows

Abe Burrows was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage....
 and music and lyrics by Cole Porter
Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
.

Loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel
Melchior Lengyel

Melchior Lengyel, born Lebovics Menyh?rt, was a Hungary writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter....
 story Ninotchka and the 1939 film adaptation
Ninotchka

Ninotchka is a 1939 in film American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas....
 it inspired, it focuses on special envoy
Envoy

Envoy may refer to:*an Envoy *a Diplomatic_rank#Multilateral_diplomacy*a diplomat in general*Envoy , the British Vauxhall cars for Canadian market in 1960-'70...
 Nina Yaschenko, who is dispatched from the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 to rescue three foolish commissar
Commissar

Commissar is the English transliteration of an official title The title was mostly associated with a number of Cheka and military functions in many Bolshevik and Soviet government military forces during the Russian Civil War; the White Army widely used the collective term bolsheviks and commissars for their opponents....
s from the pleasures of Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. Romanced by theatrical agent Steven Canfield, she eventually comes to recognize the virtues of capitalist
Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system in which wealth, and the means of producing wealth, are private property and controlled rather than commonly, publicly, or state-owned and controlled....
 indulgence. Other characters include Peter Boroff, Russia's greatest composer, who is being wooed by Peggy Dayton, America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
's swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
 sweetheart, to write the score for her first non-aquatic picture, a musical adaptation of War and Peace
War and Peace

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkiy Vestnik , which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era....
.

Following tryouts in Philadelphia, Boston, and Detroit, the Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 production, directed by Cy Feuer
Cy Feuer

Cy Feuer was a Tony Award-winning United States theatrical producer, theatre director, composer, and musician.Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York, he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while attending New Utrecht High School....
 and choreographed by Eugene Loring
Eugene Loring

Eugene Loring United States ballet and other dance-forms dancer, choreographer and teacher and administrator....
, opened on February 24, 1955 at the Imperial Theatre
Imperial Theatre

The Imperial Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 249 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. The theatre seats up to 1417 people...
, where it ran for 478 performances. The cast included Hildegarde Neff, Don Ameche
Don Ameche

Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning United Statesn actor....
, Gretchen Wyler
Gretchen Wyler

Gretchen Wyler was an American actress....
, George Tobias
George Tobias

George Tobias was an United States character actor.Born to a Jewish family in New York City, he began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California....
, David Opatoshu
David Opatoshu

David Opatoshu was an United States television actor with occasional roles in films. He was born David Opatovsky in New York City, where he was reared and educated....
, Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar

'Julie Newmar' is an American actor, dancer and singer. Her most famous role is Catwoman in the Batman television series....
, and Onna White
Onna White

Onna White was a Canada choreographer and dancer nominated for eight Tony Awards. White was especially adept at choreographing dance numbers for actors with little or no dance training....
. An original cast recording was released by RCA Victor.

The 1957 film version is discussed in a separate article Silk Stockings (film)
Silk Stockings (film)

Silk Stockings is a 1957 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film remake of Ninotchka. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse....
.

Song list

Act I
  • Too Bad
  • Paris Loves Lovers
  • Stereophonic Sound
  • It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All
  • All of You
  • Satin and Silk
  • Without Love
  • All of You (Reprise)


Act II
  • Hail, Bibinski
  • As On Through the Seasons We Sail
  • Josephine
  • Siberia
  • Silk Stockings
  • The Red Blues
  • Too Bad (Reprise)


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