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Cast Size

5w, 4m
Duration

More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Subgenre

Adaptation (Literature)
Target Audience

Appropriate for All Audiences

Accolades

Winner! 2024 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical

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Summary

Based on Jerome Weidman’s bestselling novel, I Can Get It For You Wholesale is the story of an ambitious young businessman artfully clawing his way to the top of the garment industry in 1930s New York. With humour and frankness, the show explores the perils of ambition and the price of success. Contrasting the swinging, jazzy rhythms of big city business with the earthy, traditional sounds of the characters’ Eastern European origins, I Can Get It For You Wholesale captures the energy and promise of a pivotal time in Jewish American history.

History

I Can Get It For You Wholesale opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on 22 March 1962, starring Elliott Gould, Lilian Roth and Marilyn Cooper. The show transferred to the Broadway Theatre and ran for a total of 300 performances. Barbra Streisand, who made her Broadway debut as Miss Marmelstein, earned a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

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Time Period 1930s
Setting New York's garment district and the Bronx. 1937.
Features Period Costumes
Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Cautions
- Mild Adult Themes

Media

“Keenly professional in its disenchanted hymn to getting ahead.” – The New York Times

“I Can Get It For You Wholesale is keenly professional in its disenchanted hymn to getting ahead… It is spirited in its appreciation of the garment-trade milieu, and both winning and tearfully sentimental in its treatment of Jewish folks and some of their Bronx folkways.” – The New York Times

“It is unbelievable how much that is touching can come from a show that is essentially tough… what counts is the economy, the speed, the straight-forwardness, and the unblinking vigor with which a highly original project, with a great amount of stick-to-itiveness, keeps its vision clear, its head and toes high, and both its musical and dramatic intentions honor-bright.” – Walter Kerr, The New York Herald-Tribune

“Lifts the spirits and sends you out into the night with a smile on your face... Even though the hero is an out-and-out louse – a two-timing, strike-breaking, crooked louse.” – The Guardian

Photos

Image: 2023 Classic Stage Company Production (Julieta Cervantes)

Image: 2023 Classic Stage Company Production (Julieta Cervantes)

Image: Sam Norkin

Music

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Musical Style Classic Broadway
Dance Requirements Easy
Vocal DemandsDifficult
Orchestra Size Large
Chorus Size Medium

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