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Wonderful Town, 2003

Shows · Wonderful Town · Production, 2003

Wonderful Town
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Wonderful Town and could document any of its runs. None
Revival Broadway497 performances

The run closed January 30, 2005

Opened
2003
Closed
January 30, 2005
Performances
497
Previews
Unknown
Theatre
Unknown

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 46th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Wonderful Town 2 more that season

1953 Winter Garden Theatre Original · George Abbott (Jerome Robbins uncredited) 559 perf.
1986 Transfer Transfer

Who was in it44 named

Raymond Jaramillo Mcleod
Nancy Anderson
Ken Barnett
Joyce Chittick
Randy Danson
Susan Derry
David Eggers
Ashley Hull
Tina Ou
Devin Richards
Angela Robinson
Timothy Shew
J D Webster
Jennifer Hope Wills
Darrin Baker
Carol Bentley
Jordan Cable
James Clow
Toni Dibuono
Martha Hawley
Sarah Jayne Jensen
J Elaine Marcos
Carolyn Ockert Haythe
Michael O Donnell
Alex Sanchez
Dennis Stowe
Laurie Williamson

17 of these 44 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 27 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters11 roles held

Faith Prince Ruth Sherwood
Lauren Molina Eileen Sherwood
Karl Hamilton Robert Baker
Jared Gertner Frank Lippencott
Steven Strafford Chick Clark
Matt DeCaro Appopolous
James Earl Jones II Speedy Valenti
Ben Crawford Wreck
George Andrew Wolff Officer Lonigan
Amy J. Carle Mrs. Wade
Sadieh Rifai Helen

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Choreographer
Kathleen Marshall

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 11 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Wonderful Town, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which in turn originated from autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney first published in The New Yorker in the late 1930s and later published in book form as My Sister Eileen. Only the last two stories in McKenney's book were used, and they were heavily modified. After a pre-Broadwa…

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What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • Which of the 11 recordings of Wonderful Town document this run, if any.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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