WONDERFUL TOWN
May 13 - June 13, 2021
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov
Based upon the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov and the stories by Ruth McKenney
Directed and Choreographed by Lee Ann Payne
Music Direction by Nick Perez
"A superb musical...an immortal score." - New York Magazine
Our Back-to-Back Series continues with the 1953 musical and the 1940 play that inspired it. Two sisters from Ohio arrive in New York with big dreams and get caught up with the colorful denizens of Greenwich Village. WONDERFUL TOWN won the Tony for Best Musical and features a jazzy Bernstein score, including
"A Little Bit in Love," "My Darlin' Eileen," and "Conga."
Part of Moon's BACK TO BACK Series. Presented in repertory with the 1940 play MY SISTER EILEEN.
WONDERFUL TOWN
May 13 - June 13, 2021
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov
Based upon the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov and the stories by Ruth McKenney
Directed and Choreographed by Lee Ann Payne
Music Direction by Nick Perez
"A superb musical...an immortal score." - New York Magazine
Our Back-to-Back Series continues with the 1953 musical and the 1940 play that inspired it. Two sisters from Ohio arrive in New York with big dreams and get caught up with the colorful denizens of Greenwich Village. WONDERFUL TOWN won the Tony for Best Musical and features a jazzy Bernstein score, including
"A Little Bit in Love," "My Darlin' Eileen," and "Conga."
Part of Moon's BACK TO BACK Series. Presented in repertory with the 1940 play MY SISTER EILEEN.
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