Performance

I Get a Kick Out of You

1 upcoming performance in New York

Cole Porter wrote “I Get a Kick Out of You” for the 1934 Broadway stage, where it first landed with New York audiences as part of *Anything Goes*. Built on wit and romantic self-awareness, the song treats desire as a kind of modern nervous energy, punctuated by a refrain that feels like a knowing aside to the listener. Its afterlife in jazz and popular singing has been unusually long, making it a portable piece of Broadway craft. At Dizzy’s Club, Ann Hampton Callaway places it in a Porter-focused set, where its lyric-driven swing reads like theater spoken in time.