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(sĭlk'stŏk'ĭng)
adj.
Wealthy; aristocratic: a silk-stocking district; silk-stocking prep schools.


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For other uses, see Silk Stockings (disambiguation).
For the 1957 film, see Silk Stockings (film).
Silk Stockings
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Original Cast Recording
Music Cole Porter
Lyrics Cole Porter
Book George S. Kaufman
Leueen MacGrath
Abe Burrows
Basis Melchior Lengyel's story Ninotchka
and the 1939 film Ninotchka
Productions 1955 Broadway
1957 Film
Ad for the original Broadway production with Neff in the arms of Ameche

Silk Stockings is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

Loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel story Ninotchka and the 1939 film adaptation it inspired, it focuses on special envoy Nina Yaschenko, who is dispatched from the Soviet Union to rescue three foolish commissars from the pleasures of Paris. Romanced by theatrical agent Steven Canfield, she eventually comes to recognize the virtues of capitalist indulgence. Other characters include Peter Boroff, Russia's greatest composer, who is being wooed by Peggy Dayton, America's swimming sweetheart, to write the score for her first non-aquatic picture, a musical adaptation of War and Peace.

Following tryouts in Philadelphia, Boston, and Detroit, the Broadway production, directed by Cy Feuer and choreographed by Eugene Loring, opened on February 24, 1955 at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 478 performances. The cast included Hildegarde Neff, Don Ameche, Gretchen Wyler, George Tobias, David Opatoshu, Julie Newmar, and Onna White. Jan Sherwood eventually replaced Neff as Ninotchka and also portrayed the role for the show's first national tour. An original cast recording was released by RCA Victor.

Song list

Act I
  • Too Bad
  • Paris Loves Lovers
  • Stereophonic Sound
  • It's a Chemical Reaction, That's All
  • All of You
  • Satin and Silk
  • Without Love
  • All of You (Reprise)
Act II
  • Hail, Bibinski
  • As On Through the Seasons We Sail
  • Josephine
  • Siberia
  • Silk Stockings
  • The Red Blues
  • Too Bad (Reprise)

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Cole Porter musicals

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Translations: Silk-stocking
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - silkestrømpe

Nederlands (Dutch)
modieus/elegant gekleed, aristocratisch

Français (French)
adj. - (US) chic (quartier), mondain (une réception)
n. - bas de soie, (US, fig) aristocrate, riche

Deutsch (German)
adj. - elegant, vornehm, reich
n. - Aristokrat, eleganter od. reicher Mensch

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (καθομ.) αριστοκρατικός
n. - μεταξωτή κάλτσα

Italiano (Italian)
di gran classe

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - aristocrático
n. - aristocrata

Русский (Russian)
элегантный, роскошно одетый, богатый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - aristocrático, elegante
n. - aristocrático, elegante

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - silkesstrumps-
n. - silkesstrumpa

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
穿着入时的人的, 富裕的, 贵族的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 穿著入時的人的, 富裕的, 貴族的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 호화로운 옷을 입은 , 귀족적인, 부유한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - ぜいたくに着飾った, 富裕階級の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) أرستقراطي, مترف, أنيق (الاسم) شخص أنيق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮אריסטוקרטי, לבוש בעושר‬

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