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Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. 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.
Original Release
11/30/1958
US Release
11/30/1958
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rosalind Russell | Ruth Sherwood |
Sydney Chaplin | Robert Baker |
Jacquelyn McKeever | Eileen Sherwood |
Joseph Buloff | Mr. Appopolous |
Dort Clark | Chick Clark |
Jordan Bentley | Wreck |
Cris Alexander | Frank Lippencott |
Jack Fletcher | Night Club Patron |
Michèle Burke | Helen Wade |
Ted Beniades | 'Speedy' Valenti |
Directors
Writers
Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields, Ruth McKenney
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rosalind Russell | Ruth Sherwood |
Sydney Chaplin | Robert Baker |
Jacquelyn McKeever | Eileen Sherwood |
Joseph Buloff | Mr. Appopolous |
Dort Clark | Chick Clark |
Jordan Bentley | Wreck |
Cris Alexander | Frank Lippencott |
Jack Fletcher | Night Club Patron |
Michèle Burke | Helen Wade |
Ted Beniades | 'Speedy' Valenti |
Isabella Hoopes | Mrs. Wade |
Ray Weaver | Shore Patrolman |
Gene Carrons | Violet |
John Wheeler | Officer Lonigan |
Don Grusso | Fireman |
Edward J. Heim | Dancer / Brazilian Navy Cadet |
Ed Pfeiffer | Dancer / Brazilian Navy Cadet |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ralph Fields | Executive Producer |
Stanley Flink | Producer |
Robert Fryer | Producer |