I'm Old Fashioned (The Astaire Variations) is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Morton Gould's adaptation of a theme by Jerome Kern, “I'm Old Fashioned”, to a Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth sequence from the film You Were Never Lovelier. The premiere took place on Thursday, June 16, 1983, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. It was titled Variations on "I'm Old Fashioned" at its first performance,NY Times by Anna Kisselgoff, June 18, 1983 but the name was truncated to its current form the following week.NY Times by Anna Kisselgoff, June 28, 1983
Original cast Judith Fugate Kyra Nichols Heather Watts Joseph Duell Sean Lavery Bart Cook
Reviews
NY Times by Alastair Macaulay, October 9, 2010
References
Repertory Week, NYCB, Spring season, 2008 repertory, week 5
Playbill, NYCB, Friday, May 30, 2008
Articles
Sunday NY Times, Jack Anderson, May 29, 1983
NY Times, Roslyn Sulcas, May 28, 2007