Wonderful Town (2018)
2h 2m
Running Time
January 1, 2018Release Date
Plot.
With a keen sensitivity to the demands and specificities of the American “musical”, and after the triumph of Sondheim’s Follies in 2015, the Opéra de Toulon once again embarked on a Broadway adventure with the French premiere of Bernstein’s Wonderful Town, and brought back for the occasion stage director Olivier Bénézech, a major connoisseur of the genre. A true declaration of love to the city of New-York, Wonderful Town tells the tale, with a boisterous rhythm and vast amounts of jazzy tunes, of two sisters from Ohio looking for success and glory in the big city. Lighter in tone than later works like West Side Story or Candide, its smart combination of the different musical traditions one could hear when wandering in the streets of New-York, its accomplished orchestral writing and colouring, and its vivid sense of comedy earned it no less than five Tony awards when it premiered in 1953.
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Cast & Crew.

Jasmine Roy
Ruth Sherwood

Rafaëlle Cohen
Eileen Sherwood

Dalia Constantin
Helen

Lauren van Kempen
Violet

Alyssa Landry
Mrs Wade

Maxime de Toledo
Robert Baker

Thomas Boutilier
Wreck

Franck Lopez
Lonigan

Jacques Verzier
Appopolous / 1st Editor

Julian Salvia
Chick Clark

Jean-Yves Lange
A Client / A Policeman

Grégory Garell
A Man

Didier Siccardi
Policeman

Antoine Abello
Policeman

Jean Delobel
Policeman

Patrick Sabatier
Policeman

Leonard Bernstein
Music

Larry Blank
Conductor

Olivier Bénézech
Director

Adolph Green
Lyricist

Betty Comden
Lyricist

Ruth McKenney
Writer

Jerome Chodorov
Book
