Gay Divorce

Gay Divorce
Playbill from original Shubert Theater run
MusicCole Porter
LyricsCole Porter
BookDwight Taylor
Adapted by: Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein
BasisAn unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners
Productions1932 Broadway
1933 West End
1933 Australian Tour

Gay Divorce is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Dwight Taylor, adapted by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. It was Fred Astaire's last Broadway show and featured the hit song "Night and Day" in which Astaire danced with co-star Claire Luce.

It was made into a musical film by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and renamed The Gay Divorcee.


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