Wonderful Town
- By:
- book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, music by Leonard Bernstien, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- Composer:
- Conductor: Sir Mark Elder CBE (until April 14)
- Management:
- Lee Menzies and Kenneth Wax for Wonderful Town UK Ltd present The Royal Exchange Theatre, Halle Concerts Society and The Lowry Production
- Cast:
- Connie Fisher, Lucy van Gasse, Michael Xavier, Haydn Oakley, Joseph Alessi, Michael Matus, Sevan Stephan, Nic Greenshields, Helen Tiffany, Annette Yeo, Paul Hawkyard
- Director:
- Braham Murray
- Design:
- Simon Higlett (also costumes)
- Sound:
- Clement Rawling
- Lighting:
- Chris Davey
- Choreography:
- Andrew Wright
- Musical direction:
- James Burton
- Website:
- click here
Production information can change over the run of the show.
After his success with On The Town, composer Leonard Bernstein imagined that he would probably never write another musical comedy. Yet when writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green suggested they collaborate again on a new show about two sisters trying to make it in New York, Bernstein not only agreed but completed the score within a matter of weeks. Wonderful Town may not have the familiarity of their much-loved On The Town but the original production garnered five Tony Awards and ran for a respectable 559 performances on Broadway...
Run sheet
- Lowry Salford
- April 4-14
- Milton Keynes Theatre Milton Keynes
- April 24-28
- Lyceum Sheffield
- May 1- 5
- King's Glasgow
- May 8-12
- Theatre Royal Nottingham
- May 15-19
- Royal Concert Hall Nottingham
- May 15-19
- Hippodrome Birmingham
- May 22-26
- Mayflower Southampton
- May 29-June 2
- Theatre Royal Norwich
- June 5- 9
- Theatre Royal Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- June 12-16
- New Victoria Woking
- June 19-23
- Theatre Royal Plymouth
- June 26-30
- Wales Millennium Centre, Donald Gordon Cardiff
- July 3- 7
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