I Get a Kick Out of You New York Performances

Cole Porter wrote “I Get a Kick Out of You” for the Broadway stage in the mid-1930s, and it quickly moved from theater to jazz standard. The lyric is a study in preference and restraint, dismissing common thrills in favor of one particular, hard-to-define allure. In New York, where Porter’s Broadway work helped define a modern songbook, the tune still signals the city’s blend of sophistication and wit. At Dizzy’s Club, Ann Hampton Callaway frames it inside a Porter-focused set, letting the storytelling do the work.