Patrick Honoré reflects on a few Off-Broadway gems from a recent visit to New York… Wonderful Town, New York City City Center Encores! Wonderful Town, as part of Lincoln Center’s venerated Encores! series, continued to affirm its status as a Broadway classic, primarily thanks to Leonard Bernstein’s immortal score, which includes iconic compositions such as […]
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CD Review – Wonderful Town – London Symphony Orchestra and Cast
WONDERFUL TOWN – London Symphony Orchestra and Cast (LSO Live – LSO0813) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ As part of the Leonard Bernstein at 100 celebrations, the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle have released their recording of Bernstein’s Wonderful Town. Since it was written in 1953, there have only been four […]
Wonderful Town – Toulon Opéra
Wonderful Town – Toulon Opéra, France. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth and five years after the ambitious production of Follies!, the Toulon Opéra treated us this year to another classic Broadway musical, expertly staged by the same director, Olivier Bénézech, again setting the piece […]
Wonderful Town – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Wonderful Town continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 30 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Director Tim McArthur and MD Aaron Clingham reunite for an exuberant, action-packed revival (indeed, a miraculous resuscitation) in Walthamstow of Leonard Bernstein and Comden and Green’s 1953 musical Wonderful Town. Not quite a lost […]
Wonderful Town – cast and creatives revealed for All Star production
Full casting and creatives have been announced for All Star Productions’ new chamber production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town. Based on the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, which was in turn inspired by the short stories by Ruth McKenney, Wonderful Town features a score by Bernstein with lyrics by Betty […]
Bernstein’s Wonderful Town is final show in All Star Productions’ 2016 season
A new chamber production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town will be the final presentation in All Star Productions’ 2016 season. Following on from the company’s recent critically acclaimed Babes in Arms, Wonderful Town will play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre from 12-30 October. Based on the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields […]
