Tags: Musical.
Subways Are for Sleeping is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The original Broadway production played in 1961-62.The musical was inspired by an article about subway homelessness in the March 1956 issue of Harper’s and a subsequent 1957 book based on it both by Edmund G. Love who slept on subway trains throughout the 1950s and encountered many unique individuals.