Gay Divorce | |
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Music | Cole Porter |
Lyrics | Cole Porter |
Book | Dwight Taylor Adapted by: Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein |
Basis | An unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners |
Productions | 1932 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.
RKO Radio Pictures released a film production of the musical in 1934, starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renamed The Gay Divorcee.