Wise Guy (musical)

This article is about the musical by Irving Berlin. For Stephen Sondheim's musical at one point called Wise Guys, which also deals with the Mizners, see Road Show (musical).

Wise Guy, which had at different points the working titles (in approximate order) The Last Resorts, Palm Beach, The Mizner Story, and Sentimental Guy, is a musical whose music and lyrics were written by Irving Berlin between 1952 and 1956. It has never been produced.

The subject of the musical is Berlin's deceased friend, the famous Florida architect Addison Mizner, to a lesser extent Addison's younger brother and sometimes partner Wilson, and their friends and clients. Berlin had been an investor in Mizner's visionary but ultimately ruinous Boca Raton project,[1]: 139–140, 144 [2] and there had been talk (but no serious plans) of Berlin setting up a nightclub in Boca Raton.[1]: 145 

  1. ^ a b Curl, Donald W. (1992). Mizner's Florida. Florida Resort Architecture. The Architectural History Foundation and the MIT Press. ISBN 0262530686. First published 1984
  2. ^ Boca Raton Historical Society. "Mizner's Dream: The Built and the Unbuilt". Archived from the original on January 3, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2018.