I'm Old Fashioned (ballet) - Misplaced Pages

Ballet

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, but the name was truncated to its current form the following week.

Original cast

v t e Jerome Robbins
Ballets	2 and 3 Part Inventions Afternoon of a Faun Andantino Antique Epigraphs Brahms/Handel Brandenburg The Cage Circus Polka The Concert Dances at a Gathering Dybbuk Fancy Free Fanfare The Firebird Four Bagatelles The Four Seasons Gershwin Piano Concerto Glass Pieces The Goldberg Variations I'm Old Fashioned In G Major In Memory of ... In the Night Interplay Ives, Songs Mother Goose Moves Les Noces N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz Opus 19/The Dreamer Other Dances Piano Pieces Requiem Canticles Suite of Dances A Suite of Dances Tricolore Watermill West Side Story Suite
Musicals	Peter Pan (1954) West Side Story (1957), concept
Films	On the Town (1949), "based on an idea by Jerome Robbins" West Side Story (1961)