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ON THE TOWN Music by Leonard Bernstein. Book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green: London Coliseum AMERICAN musicals are suddenly becoming rather commonplace in the opera house Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at Covent Garden and, this summer, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific at rural Grange Park.
Well, it's all music-theatre. Or as Leonard Bernstein the composer of this zestful score preferred to put it: 'It's all jazz!' And there's certainly a splendidly jazzy feel to his dynamic homage to New York, first staged in 1944 but best known for the film version with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as the rampant sailors on a frantic, 24-hour shore leave during World War II.See the full content of this document
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First Night Review
This is the first London revival since its premiere here in 1963 and it ran fo...
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