Wonderful Town
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 23, 2003
Closed Jan 30, 2005
Opened Nov 23, 2003
Closed Jan 30, 2005
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Running Time:
2hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Leonard Bernstein-Adolph Green-Betty Comden show Wonderful Town gets a Broadway revival! Brooke Shields stars in the musical, based on Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov's play, My Sister Eileen. Two sisters from Ohio arrive in New York and find life in the big city a lot more complicated than they ever imagined. The score features songs such as songs as "Christopher Street," "My Darlin' Eileen," and "A Little Bit In Love." Kathleen Marshall (who won a 2004 Tony for her choreography here) directs and choreographs. Now starring Brooke Shields through January 30!
Time Change: Tuesday - January 25 @ 7pm
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
302 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
Renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2003, this Byzantine-styled theater was built by vaudeville impresario Martin Beck in order to house large musicals with huge casts. It housed the productions of Bye Bye Birdie and Sweet Bird of Youth. The best [...] Read More
302 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
Renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2003, this Byzantine-styled theater was built by vaudeville impresario Martin Beck in order to house large musicals with huge casts. It housed the productions of Bye Bye Birdie and Sweet Bird of Youth. The best [...] Read More
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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. She's distinguishing herself in Wonderful Town, which won the 1953 Best Musical Tony. The original production's leading lady, Rosalind Russell, also strode off with a Best Actress Tony, an honor that could easily accrue to Murphy this season.
She plays Ruth Sherwood, a Columbus, Ohio girl -- they were still called girls in the '30s, when the musical is set -- who comes to Manhattan to be a writer with her sister Eileen (Jennifer Westfeldt) in tow. Not surprisingly, she achieves her goal after a series of lightweight mishaps with landlord Appopolous (David[...]