The New Yorkers is a musical with score by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields that satirizes New York City types during Prohibition, from high society matrons to con men, bootleggers, thieves, and prostitutes.

The musical was "built to order around star comic Jimmy Durante, indisputably featured special material (songs as well as bits) that wouldn't scan without Schnozzola himself delivering it.

Jimmy Deegan and his buddies Ronald and Oscar aid in their escapades, invent a new alcoholic drink, murder Feet McGeehan and assist with the gangland wedding of Al and Alice, while offering tributes to money, wood, and "The Hot Patata".

[6][7] Directed by Monty Woolley, with choreography by George Hale,[6] special numbers were staged by Fred Waring, and the production supervised by E. Ray Goetz.

[7] The cast featured Frances Williams as the hostess Mona Low, Charles King as Al Spanish, Hope Williams as Alice Wentworth, Ann Pennington as Lola McGee, Marie Cahill as Gloria Wentworth,[6][7] the Fred Waring Orchestra,[6] Lou Clayton as Cyril Gregory, Eddie Jackson as Ronald Monahan, Jimmy Durante as Jimmie Deegan, Kathryn Crawford as May[7] (later replaced by Elisabeth Welch),[8] and Oscar Ragland as Mildew.

[13] The "Lost Musicals" series presented The New Yorkers at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, in March and April 2009, starring Anna Francolini as Alice and Dawn Spence as Mona Low.

staged concert series with Tam Mutu as Al Spanish, Scarlett Strallen as Alice Wentworth, and Kevin Chamberlin as Jimmie Deegan, directed by John Rando.