Back No, No, Nanette German No, No Nanette Estonian No, No, Nanette French No, No, Nanette Italian ノー・ノー・ナネット Japanese Nei, nei, Nanette NB No, No, Nanette Swedish
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| Music | Vincent Youmans |
| Lyrics | Irving Caesar Otto Harbach |
| Book | Otto Harbach Frank Mandel 1971: Burt Shevelove |
| Basis | Emil Nyitray and Frank Mandel's play My Lady Friends |
| Productions | 1924: Chicago 1925: West End 1925: Broadway 1971: Broadway revival |
| Awards | Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book |
No, No, Nanette is a musical with a book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel based on Mandel's 1919 Broadway play My Lady Friends; lyrics by Irving Caesar and Harbach; and music by Vincent Youmans. The farcical story centers on three couples who find themselves together at a cottage in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the midst of a blackmail scheme focusing on a fun-loving Manhattan heiress who has run off, leaving an unhappy fiancé. Its songs include the well-known "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy".
After a pre-Broadway tour in 1924, the musical was revised for a production later 1924 in Chicago, where it became a hit and ran for more than a year. In 1925 No, No, Nanette opened both on Broadway and in London's West End, running for 321 and 665 performances, respectively. Film versions (1930 and 1940) and revivals followed. A Broadway revival in 1971, with the book adapted by Burt Shevelove, was a success, running for 861 performances.
A popular myth holds that the show was financed by selling baseball's Boston Red Sox superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, resulting in the "Curse of the Bambino."[1] However, it was Mandel's original play, My Lady Friends, rather than No, No, Nanette, that was directly financed by the Ruth sale.