Gershwin's Crazy For You

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Musicals of the 1960s through 1980s differ from that of the musical Crazy for You, by George and Ira Gershwin in style and subject matter. According to IBDB.com, Crazy for You premiered on Broadway in 1992 and ran for four years (“Crazy for You.” IBDB.com). Although it came out in the 1990s, long after the Gershwin brothers died, the lyrics and music were still done by them because the soundtrack of the musical consisted of old Gershwin songs from earlier musicals by them and were then mix-matched to create a coherent story, therefore all of the music in the show was written in the early 1900s and has the classic Broadway, swing to it. There is a feeling of relaxation in the music, unlike that of contemporary music. Modern music gives off a