“A very happy musical show, immensely likeable, swift and insane”
–The New York Times, reviewing the 1947 Broadway premiere
High Button Shoes was Jule Styne’s first Broadway hit and won Jerome Robbins his first Tony Award for choreography years before West Side Story and Gypsy (another Styne-Robbins collaboration).
Follow the hysterical misadventures of two charismatic conmen as they proceed to bamboozle the Longstreet family—inciting a chase from New Brunswick, down the Jersey Shore, to Atlantic City.