Part of the original plan had been for Charles Gaynor to write new lyrics to several Vincent Youman melodies, but none of them ended up in the show. One of the songs, "Always You" (a duet for the characters Sue and Jimmy), was in the show for the three previews and the opening-night performance in the first tryout city, Boston, but was cut soon after.
In Don Dunn's book The Making of No, No, Nanette, it is stated that "Always You" was cut before opening night in Boston, but Kevin Kelly mentioned the song by title in his Boston Globe review of the opening-night performance. After mentioning the song by title, Kelly wrote that Hiram Sherman (who played Jimmy in the production's first performances) was "nicely rattled as the millionaire, but he faulted the new song by singing it in a far-off whisper which escaped the microphones."
The date of the first Broadway preview is sometimes incorrectly listed as January 6, 1971, and the number of Broadway previews is sometimes incorrectly listed as 13. Previews actually started on January 7, and there were 14.
Although January 7 was a Thursday, the production played both a matinee and an evening performance that day. The production was playing on a Monday through Saturday schedule. Because of the Thursday matinee that first week, five performances were played that week. A standard eight performances were played the second week. There was one last production on Monday, January 18. Hence, the total was 14.
