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On the Town
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
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On the Town (1944), a musical comedy by Betty
Comden, Adolph
Green (book, lyrics), Leonard
Bernstein (music). [Adelphi Theatre, 463 perf.] Three sailors, the romantic Gaby ( John Battles), the down‐to‐earth but vain Chip ( Cris Alexander), and the clownish Ozzie ( Green) are on twenty‐four‐hour leave in New York. During a subway ride Gaby falls in love with a picture of “Miss Turnstiles” ( Sono Osato), so the boys set out to find her. Roaming as far as the Museum of Natural History and Coney Island, Chip and Ozzie also find romance, Chip with an outspoken lady cab driver, Hildy ( Nancy
Walker), and Ozzie with an anthropology student, Claire de Loon ( Comden). At the end of the twenty‐four‐hour period, the three couples wistfully part.
Notable songs: Lucky to Be Me; New York, New York; Come Up to My Place; Some Other Time; I Get Carried Away; Lonely Town. Derived from the Bernstein– Jerome
Robbins ballet
Fancy Free, this musical made its authors and choreographer Robbins important figures in the popular musical theatre. A 1971 Broadway revival failed to run; a Central Park summer mounting in 1997 was very popular but could not last when it transferred to a Broadway house.
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