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	Wonderful Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wonderful Town is a musical with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein.
		Having premiered in 1953, Wonderful Town has seen only one major Broadway revival in 2003, starring Donna Murphy (and later in the run, Brooke Shields) as Ruth.
		Wonderful Town was written by Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics), and Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov (book).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wonderful_Town (1544 words)

	Playbill News: ON THE RECORD: A Wonderful Wonderful Town
		Wonderful Town was a blockbuster, as it turned out, but not a happy one.
		Wonderful Town works wonderfully on that basis; it was a major hit in 1953, the most successful musical to come along since The King and I.
		Wonderful Town wound up with an exceptional set of orchestrations despite this, or perhaps because of this; the right numbers were carefully assigned to the right people.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/84774.html (1618 words)

	village voice > theater > Wonderful Town by Michael Feingold
		Because she was fllisted in the 1950s, the novelist Ruth McKenney isn't as well-known today as she should be.
		The real-life Eileen McKenney married the novelist Nathanael West, and was killed with him in a car crash on their honeymoon.
		Wonderful Town, Broadway's 1953 musical recycling of the myth, was built around Rosalind Russell, who had played Ruth in the 1940 film version.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0348/feingold2.php (304 words)

	Wonderful Town Tickets \| Wonderful Town Information on Broadway.com
		Wonderful Town is the story of Eileen and Ruth Sherwood, two sisters who are fresh off the bus from Ohio and are bursting with dreams of making it big, falling in love and living happily ever after in New York City - the city we all love.
		Wonderful Town celebrates and thrives on the pulse of jazz-age New York.
		Wonderful Town also boasts a 2004 Tony Award for Best Choreography for its Director and Choreographer Kathleen Marshall, who has created some of the slinkiest, kickiest and jazziest moves on Broadway today, including a conga line you won't want to miss!
	www.broadway.com /gen/show.aspx?SI=31346 (314 words)

	Wonderful Town: Still Wonderful At 51!
		What keeps this vehicle timeless is its setting, musical theater's ongoing love affair with New York City, and its theme, which it shares in odd juxtaposition with its neighboring new Broadway musical, Avenue Q, the angst of newcomers surviving the Big Apple, but the times certainly are different.
		Ruth, the older more serious sister, is fighting sexism in her job search as a writer, while her younger sister, Ruth, is just fighting sex, that is, the advances of all the young men she meets.
		"Wonderful Town" is generally perceived as the natural follow up to the successful "On The Town", which featured Comden/Green/Bernstein in their 1944 Broadway debut, since they are both valentines to New York City.
	theaterscene.net /ts/articles.nsf/BM/EFD7D4BD5A3BBE4985256E3F0045BECE (772 words)

	Amazon.com: Wonderful Town (1958 Television Cast): Music: Leonard Bernstein,Sydney Chaplin,Jaquelyn Mc Keever,Original ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wonderful Town (2003 Broadway Revival Cast) ~ Leonard Bernstein
		I have to admit, I am not much for Broadway musicals soundtracks, but I love "Wonderful Town." This CD is of the television version in 1958 in which I have seen.
		Wonderful Town (2004 Broadway Revival Cast with Brooke Shields) ~ Leonard Bernstein
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027TI?v=glance (1035 words)

	Aisle Say (NY): WONDERFUL TOWN
		To revive a musical like "Wonderful Town"—or its precursor and unofficial companion piece "On the Town"—you must understand that what you’re dealing with is a period confection, and you have to commit to some version of the recipe that renders the confection with tasty authenticity.
		Rob Fisher and his orchestra are not consigned to the pit, but are rather visible on a raised, upstage platform (same as the orchestra in the Encores!-borne "Chicago" revival), which makes the angularly playful and delightfully hip Leonard Bernstein score thrilling to hear, and the staging and dance swirls around them.
		Whereas "Chicago" keeps to the fl-tie affair palate that informs the show’s darker themes, "Wonderful Town" has been appropriately gussied up with backdrops and cityscapes of bright color and in general a nostalgic (but not old-fashioned) evocation of old-time/broad strokes musical comedy (sets by John Lee Beatty, with costumes by Martin Pakledinaz to match).
	www.aislesay.com /NY-WONDERFUL.html (646 words)

	WONDERFUL TOWN
		presentation of WONDERFUL TOWN, the two-time Tony-winner (PASSION and THE KING AND I) takes the stage of the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in a delightful, zesty revival of the Leonard Bernstein/Adolph Green and Betty Comden musical.
		Chronologically the middle panel in Bernstein's triptych to New York--flanked by ON THE TOWN, partnered again with Comden and Green, and WEST SIDE STORY with lyricist Stephen Sondheim--WONDERFUL TOWN explores the pitfalls of two sisters setting out on their own and pays loving tribute to the big city.
		WONDERFUL TOWN is one of those old-time musical comedies that offers carefree escapism.
	www.broadwaybeat.com /russell/WonderfulTown.htm (569 words)

	Amazon.com: Wonderful Town (Vocal Score): Books: Leonard Bernstein,Betty Comden,Adolph Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Music from Wonderful Town has been out of print for more than 40 years, so we are very proud to present this new edition of the brilliant musical comedy currently running in an acclaimed Broadway revival!
		After many hardships of adjustment, they find New York to be a "Wonderful Town." The original run of the show opened in 1953 and starred Rosalind Russell, and the Broadway revival, which opened on November 23, 2003, stars Donna Murphy.
		So I was very excited when I saw the new Wonderful Town songbook, which has almost all of the songs from the show, plus a synopsis.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0634073974?v=glance (699 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Review: Wonderful Town
		Wonderful Town still has more concentrated, honest entertainment in any given five minutes than this season's other new Broadway musicals can muster up in any given hour.
		But it was leading lady Rosalind Russell who walked away with spectacular notices and helped establish the show as a smash hit, a musical comedy of uncommon distinction, and a major vehicle promising a wealth of opportunities for just the right star.
		Wonderful Town is exactly the type of substantial, tuneful, and hilarious musical comedy Broadway needs right now, and while it's a shame an appropriate one could only apparently be found fifty years in the past, Broadway theatre is, for the time being, looking pretty darn wonderful.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/WTown.html (1021 words)

	Wonderful Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I haven't seen her, so I can't comment on her performance, but I did want to point out that the role is suited just as well to an actress with a voice.
		This is a show full of wit...a show that can stand on its own with the expensive wizardry, blown out sets and costumes, the stand and sing power belt number, over amplification, etc. I think many of todays musicals would fall totally flat if they were stripped of their glitz.
		P.S. In regards to the Sunday NYTimes article, I saw Wonderful Town again last week and I was talking to one of the cast members and neither Brooke Shields or Jennifer Hope Wills have missed a performance yet and Ms.
	www.broadwayworld.com /board/printthread.cfm?thread=633215 (1494 words)

	Wonderful Town - Broadway Musical - JimsDeli NYC Guide
		Synopsis Wonderful Town is the story of two sisters from Ohio, Eileen and Ruth Sherwood, who make their way to New York's Greenwich Village to pursue their dreams of life's happiness
		Wonderful Town is an understated musical that ends with the entire cast exultantly singing "Its Love!" ending on a high note indeed, and that's wonderful....
		Notes The original production of Wonderful Town had its Broadway nod February, 1953, at the Winter Garden Theater.
	www.jimsdeli.com /theater/2003-2004/wonderful-town.htm (154 words)

	Wonderful Town
		At Thanksgiving 1958, CBS presented a TV recreation starring Rosalind Russell (post-Auntie Mame and by then 50), recorded it in stereo, but the heroine was plainly too old and unlimber, and everyone else on the small screen seemed spooked by the hazards of live TV.
		In this Brit version of Wonderful Town, Sir Simon tries to do for Bernstein what he did for Gershwin in Porgy and Bess, but misses the period flavor the sheer zest of Lehman Engel's conducting of the original.
		I have to confess, however, that I saw Wonderful Town at least a half-dozen times—twice with Russell, at the beginning and the end of her Broadway run, and four times with Channing, who played without the exaggerations that became entrenched during a decade-plus as Dolly Gallagher Levi.
	classicalcdreview.com /wonder.htm (963 words)

	Wonderful Town, a CurtainUp review
		Wonderful Town being as much a story of sisterly as romantic love, there's also a new guy-getting sister Eileen.
		With the three key roles in such expert hands Wonderful Town still adds up to more than two and a half hours of scintillating show tunes, dancing staged with a savvy mix of concert (the band's right on stage) and big show pizzazz.
		Thus, Wonderful Town, while a welcome addition to the current Broadway offerings, still leaves the musical theater desperately in need of newly minted musicals to keep this most American of theatrical genres going and growing.
	www.curtainup.com /wonderfultown.html (1481 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Wonderful Town -
		Donna Murphy is doing a marvelous star turn in a part that was expressly tailored for another star, and it fits her like a Gucci glove.
		Wonderful Town dates from a time when the term "musical comedy" was perfectly respectable -- a time before musicals, which naturally had to evolve, began to cover any exposed comedy with a fig leaf so as to seem important.
		Indeed, the show is one of the last quality examples of the genre; although its score was written in a month, it was expertly soldered together by the most skilled Broadway carpenters.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4131 (1141 words)

	Wonderful Town
		Wonderful Town was the second of Leonard Bernstein's trio of 'New York' musicals begun in 1944 with
		Bernstein's achievement is all the more impressive given that the score was written over a period of only five weeks after the original music and lyrics were deemed unacceptable by several participants including the show's star, Rosalind Russell.
		My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, Wonderful Town is a love letter to New York in the '30's.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/WonderfulTown.htm (517 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| All hail Pottersville!
		The "bad" town in "It's a Wonderful Life" jumps and jives 24/7 with hot bars and cool chicks -- while "wholesome" Bedford Falls is a claustrophobic snooze.
		It is all too easily forgotten that George himself wanted nothing more than to shake the dust of that two-bit town off his feet -- and he would have, too, if he hadn't gotten waylaid by a massive load of family-business guilt and a happy ending engineered by God himself.
		The sole bar in town appears to be Martini's, a rest home which has a policy against admitting anyone under the age of 60.
	www.salon.com /ent/feature/2001/12/22/pottersville (1270 words)

	It's A Wonderful Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And then there is the film, glimpsed fitfully in the dark, equally rich in characters that are enhanced and made three-dimensional by the powerful talents playing them, but shorn of the magic of the page.
		It would be wonderful to have both of them harmoniously blended on the screen for our enjoyment.
		Is everyone in town as spineless as the banker or waiting on some promise of future redemption when she dies, as Miles is? We even suspect that he is only using that real or imagined promise to keep from making any more decisions.
	morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /news/local/1636843.shtml (1352 words)

	JWA Presents "This Week in History"
		She believed that they had "a kind of primary American freshness and assertiveness." She tried to communicate those qualities and do justice to the lives of working folks in all of her writing.
		On the Town, which was lyricist Betty Comden's first hit when it opened on December 28, 1944, was also the first big success for her three collaborators: Composer Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Robbins.
		When MGM turned On the Town into a movie with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in 1949, it was the first feature-length musical to be filmed on location.
	www.jwa.org /this_week/week52.html (1106 words)

	Broadway Revival of Wonderful Town to Close on January 30, Broadway.com Buzz
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		The Broadway revival of Wonderful Town, starring Brooke Shields, will close at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on January 30.
		Wonderful Town features music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and a book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, based on the stories by Ruth McKenna.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=504374 (380 words)

	'Wonderful Town' at Grange Park Opera, reviewed by Robert Hugill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But when the composer in question is Leonard Bernstein and the work is the musical Wonderful Town, then eyebrows might be raised.
		Based on autobiographical stories by Ruth McKenney in the New Yorker in the 1930s, it tells the tale of two sisters from Ohio, Ruth Sherwood (Mary King) and Eileen Sherwood (Sophie Danemen) and their attempts to make it in New York, but one of the biggest characters is New York, the wonderful town itself.
		McDonald, known as a designer for his collaboration with Richard Jones on the striking La Bohème and Un Ballo in Maschera on the lake in Bregenz, has come up with a striking, flexible single set in which skyscrapers frame the sky and he has filled it with a sassy, confident production.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/07/wonderfultown1.htm (306 words)

	Brussels Tourism - Visitors Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The building with the high sharp tower in the centre is the Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles (Brussels' Town Hall).
		Between April and September the town square and its buildings are illuminated at night to the rhythm of classical music.
		The small town became in the 12th century an important stop on the commercial road from Bruges to Cologne.
	www.immobe.com /brussels.asp (2917 words)

	Musical Cyberspace: Wonderful Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wonderful Town is the story of Eileen and Ruth Sherwood, two sisters who are fresh off the bus from Ohio and are bursting with dreams of making it big, falling in love and living happily ever after in New York City during the 1930s (OVERTURE).
		Ruth is an aspiring writer, average in appearance and who can't keep a man's attention - no matter what.
		Musical Cyberspace is a musical theatre fan site and is in no way officially affiliated or connected to the musicals represented within.
	www.geocities.com /joecable1997/sz/wonderfultown.html (1092 words)

	Wonderful Town (BroadwayWorld.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the purchase of the Brooke Shields starring Cd of "Wonderful Town", my count is up to eight different casts.
		No one will or can replace Rosalind Russell,particularly if you have the video tape of her television version of "Wonderful Town".
		She is really quite wonderful in her spoken and sung moments on this new "freshened" cast CD.
	www.broadwayworld.com /upcomingdetails.cfm?upid=230&page=upcomingcd (318 words)

	Wonderful Town by Original Cast CD
		On each of Murphy's featured tracks, her voice is powerful and captivating.
		On this tune, composer Leonard Bernstein recalls the swinging style of Benny Goodman and all the elegance of the Jazz Age.
		WONDERFUL TOWN closes with two bonus tracks from the 1953 production.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6667064/a/Wonderful+Town.htm (397 words)

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