Shows · Wonderful Town (2003 Revival)
Wonderful Town (2003 Revival)
Opened 2003
497 performances
Revival, Modern
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood leave Ohio for Greenwich Village to pursue their dreams — Ruth as a writer and Eileen as an actress. In their seedy basement apartment, they encounter a parade of colorful New Yorkers including a handsome magazine editor, a conga-dancing Brazilian naval cadet, and a gang of Irish cops, learning that making it in the big city takes talent, charm, and sisterly solidarity.
- Music
- Leonard Bernstein
- Lyrics
- Betty Comden, Adolph Green
- Book
- Joseph A. Fields, Jerome Chodorov
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals WONDERFUL TOWN listed in the licensor's own catalogue |
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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