Tags: Musical.
Very Warm for May is a musical composed by Jerome Kern with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was the team’s final score for Broadway following their hits Show Boat Sweet Adeline and Music in the Air. It marked a return to Broadway for Kern who had spent several years in Hollywood writing music for movies including Swing Time for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.Vincente Minnelli directed Very Warm for May which opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 17 1939.