The Midnight Sons is a 1909 American musical comedy that was popular upon its release.

[1] Opening on May 22, 1909, it ran for 257 performances at the old Broadway Theatre in New York City.

[2][3] Setting:' New York City[4] Senator Constant Noyes has four sons who are compelled to find jobs, and the loose plot follows these attempts.

[10] Staged by Lew Fields as a "summer" offering, it had preview performances outside New York and [11] play opened on May 22, 1909, at the old Broadway Theatre.

[13] F. Scott Fitzgerald references the musical in his 1928 short story "The Captured Shadow", describing a sheet music cover from the play with "three men in evening clothes and opera hats sauntering jovially along Broadway."