Knickerbocker Holiday

Knickerbocker Holiday is a 1938 musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Anderson (book and lyrics), based loosely on Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York about life in 17th-century New Netherland (old New York). The musical numbers include "September Song", now considered a pop standard.

The musical is set in 1647 Manhattan, at the time of the arrival of Peter Stuyvesant, the new Director-General of New Netherland. The local politician Tienhoven is selling brandy and firearms to the Indians, and his prospective son-in-law Brom Broeck is aware of his political corruption. Tienhoven arranges for Broeck to be executed by hanging, but Stuyvesant pardons the young man. Broeck and his new patron are both planning to marry the same woman.