Skip to Main Content

Encores! Love Life

Show Page - English

Love Life is part of the 2025 Encores! Series. This series of concert stagings revisits the archives of American musical theater.

Love Life, the only collaboration between Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner, depicts a love story that takes place over 200 years of American history, through the eyes of a couple who never ages, played by Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!) and Nicholas Christopher (Encores! Jelly’s Last Jam). This rarely staged production is directed by Tony winner Victoria Clark (Kimberly Akimbo) and explores the epic and intimate aspects of a marriage through a juxtaposition of heartfelt scenes and satirical vaudeville acts.

When Love Life arrived on Broadway in 1948, Weill called it "an entirely new form of theater." While it wasn't a smash hit at the time, many of the most famous and influential names in musical theater history point to Love Life as the first concept musical, an inspiration for musical theater favorites such as Cabaret, Chicago, and Company.

City Center brings Love Life back to the New York City stage for the first time since its Broadway run over 75 years ago. The show features some of Weill’s most delightful, biting, and melodic numbers, such as “Mr. Right” and “Here I’ll Stay,” which became cabaret standards covered by many, and evoke his iconic work with Bertold Brecht on The Threepenny Opera.

Venue

New York City Center - Main Stage
131 West 55 Street
New York, NY 10105

Group Minimum

10 or more tickets

Audience

TBA

Duration

TBD

First Performance

3/26/2025

On Sale Through

3/30/2025
Encores! Love Life
-
,
-
High Availability High Availability
Medium Availability Medium Availability
Limited Availability Limited Availability
-
-

S
M
T
W
T
F
S

S
M
T
W
T
F
S

S
M
T
W
T
F
S
MORE PERFORMANCES
-

Section
Group Price

From date must be on or before To date.

No pricing data found for the range selected.