Shows · Wonderful Town
Wonderful Town
Opened 1953
559 performances
Musical, Golden Age
Tony Award for Best Musical, 1953
Wonderful Town is generally accepted as the successor to On The Town. The musical was based on Ruth McKinney’s New Yorker short stories — which Fields and Chodorov had already turned into the 1940 Broadway hit My Sister Eileen — and concerns the adventures of Miss McKinney and her sister in Greenwich Village after arriving from Ohio seeking careers.
"\u201cThe Musical Comedy\u201d": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Leonard Bernstein
- Lyrics
- Betty Comden & Adolph Green
- Book
- Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov
Productions3 productions: 2 on Broadway, 1 in the West End
Songs26 songs
Christopher Street, Ohio, One Hundred Easy Ways, What a Waste, A Little Bit in Love, A Quiet Girl, Conga!, Swing!, It’s Love, Wrong Note Rag, Conquering New York, Story Vignettes, Never Felt This Way Before, Pass the Football, Conversation Piece, Nice People, Nice Talk, My Darlin’ Eileen, Ballet at the Village Vortex, Village Vortex Blues, Let It Come Down, New York, New York, helluva town, wonderful town,, New York, hello, hello, there, on the town.
Recordings 11 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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