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{{Short description|1938 musical}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Use American English|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox musical |name= Knickerbocker Holiday |subtitle= |image= Knickerbocker poster.jpg |caption= Poster for original Broadway production |music= [[Kurt Weill]] |lyrics= [[Maxwell Anderson]] |book= Maxwell Anderson |basis= [[Washington Irving]]'s<br />''Father Knickerbocker's Stories'' |productions= 1938 β 1939 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]<br />[[Knickerbocker Holiday (film)|1944 Film]] <!-- Please do not include production-specific (acting, directing, etc.) awards --> |awards= }} '''''Knickerbocker Holiday''''' is a 1938 [[musical theatre|musical]] written by [[Kurt Weill]] (music) and [[Maxwell Anderson]] (book and lyrics); based loosely on [[Washington Irving]]'s ''[[A History of New York|Knickerbocker's History of New York]]'' about life in 17th-century New Netherland (old New York). The musical numbers include "[[September Song]]", now considered a [[Traditional pop|pop standard]]. [[File:Walter Huston β Knickerbocker Holiday.png|thumb|Walter Huston as Peter Stuyvesant in ''Knickerbocker Holiday'']]
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