High Society

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High Society is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and additional lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. The stage version adapts Porter's score for the 1956 film of the same name, which was based on the stage comedy The Philadelphia Story. The musical features much of the film's score, augmented by several songs selected from Porter's catalogue. The plot follows a pretentious Oyster Bay socialite who is planning to wed an equally pretentious executive, when her ex-husband arrives to disrupt the proceedings. The musical premiered in San Francisco in late 1997, transferred to Broadway in early 1998, receiving mixed to unfavorable reviews, and closed after five months. Since then, it has been staged in the West End and elsewhere. Glamorous but pretentious Long Island socialite Tracy Samantha Lord is planning a lavish June 1938 wedding to an equally pretentious executive, George Kittredge. Guests include her mother, grumpy little sister Dinah, and absent-minded Uncle Willy, who lives in a house near the Lord estate. Willy is hosting a party for the wedding guests that evening, the night before the wedding. Tracy's unwelcome ex-husband and neighbor, C.K. Dexter Haven, sails up to the estate in his yacht.