Wonderful Town (London Cast) (1986) [SEALED] and similar items

Catalog Number: 88561-8260-1 Condition Details: Unopened/new vinyl, factory sealed, and in excellent condition. Tiny surface abrasions near bottom-center on front and shelf-wear along bottom-edge where section of shrink is missing. Some wear to corners. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Christopher Street (Michael Fitzpatrick ) Ohio (Maureen Lipman and Emily Morgan ) One Hundred Ways To Lose A Man (Maureen Lipman ) What A Waste (Ray Lonnen and Maureen Lipman ) A Little Bit In Love (Emily Morgan ) Pass The Football (Nicholas Colicos, Roy Durbin, and Daniel Coll ) Conversation Piece (Maureen Lipman, Emily Morgan, Ray Lonnen, Ben Stevens, and John Cassady ) Quiet Girl (Maureen Lipman ) Conga (Maureen Lipman ) Darlin' Eileen (Emily Morgan ) Swing! (Maureen Lipman ) Ohio (Reprise) (Maureen Lipman and Emily Morgan ) It's Love (Ray Lonnen and Emily Morgan ) Vortex Ballet (Michael Round ) Wrong Note Rag (Maureen Lipman and Emily Morgan ) It's Love (Reprise) (Emily Morgan, Ray Lonnen, and Maureen Lipman ) About The Record: Wonderful Town (London Cast) is the soundtrack to the London musical of the same name. 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. After a pre-Broadway try-out at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, Wonderful Town premiered on Broadway in 1953, starring Rosalind Russell in the role of Ruth Sherwood, Edie Adams as Eileen Sherwood, and George Gaynes as Robert Baker. It won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actress, and spawned three New York City Center productions between 1958 and 1966, the 1955 and 1986 West End production and 2003 Broadway revival. It is a lighter piece than Bernstein's later works, West Side Story and Candide, but none of the songs have become as popular. The West End premiere opened at The Prince's Theatre on February 25, 1955, running for 207 performances starring Pat Kirkwood as Ruth, Shani Wallace as Eileen, and Sid James as Wreck. The musical was produced by Jack Hylton with Cyril Ornadel as music director.