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Wonderful Town

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.

Wonderful Town premiered on Broadway in 1953, winning five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and spawned three New York City Center productions between 1958 and 1966, a 1986 West End production and 2003 Broadway revival. It is a lighter piece than Bernstein's later works, West Side Story and Candide, but none of the songs have become as popular.

Music By - Leonard Bernstein | Stage Date - 1953

Leonard Bernstein : Wonderful Town

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! The music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green tell the story of two sisters who move from Ohio to Greenwich Village. 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. The cast recording is being released by DRG Records. Our songbook includes 10 songs: Ohio - One Hundred Easy Ways - What a Waste - A Little Bit in Love - Pass That Football - A Quiet Girl - My Darlin' Eileen - Swing - It's Love - The Wrong Note Rag. Features a preface by Comden and Green, and a complete plot synopsis.

Songlist: Swing, What A Waste, It's Love, A Little Bit In Love, My Darlin' Eileen, Ohio, One Hundred Easy Ways To Lose A Man, Pass That Football, A Quiet Girl, The Wrong Note Rag