Wonderful Town - 1963 - Off-Broadway Tickets, News, Info & More
Based upon the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov and the stories by Ruth McKenney
Connie Fisher, star of The Sound of Music and winner of the BBC's How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria, returns to Birmingham Hippodrome in the multi award-winning musical comedy, Wonderful Town.
Featuring a superb score by legendary American composer Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story), the show has received countless awards since its premiere in 1953 including the prestigious Tony Award for Best Musical.
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by BWW News Desk
- May 9, 2007
Mary Louise Wilson and David Margulies have been named to receive the annual Richard Seff Awards, presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation.
by Mark Rupp
- May 25, 2007
A caricature of legendary choreographer Donald Saddler was recently unveiled at Sardi's.
by BWW News Desk
- May 21, 2007
Big Tent: The Tammy Faye Bakker Musical will have its first public viewing in a fully staged concert at Off-Broadway's New World Stages at 8pm on Wednesday, May 23, 2007.
by BWW News Desk
- May 17, 2007
Big Tent: The Tammy Faye Bakker Musical will receive its first public viewing in a fully staged concert at Off-Broadway's New World Stages at 8pm on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
by BWW News Desk
- May 17, 2007
NBC has unveiled a fall line-up of new shows that includes theatre stars Adam Arkin and Brooke Shields.
by Michael Gilboe
- May 16, 2007
Tony award winner, Karen Ziemba talks to BroadwayBullet backstage at Curtains, her new musical with David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk. She also discusses the show 'Contact' which brought her award and much more!
by BWW News Desk
- May 15, 2007
E! Online reports that 'Eli Stone,' a pilot with Broadway's Laura Benanti among its stars, has been picked up by ABC.
by BWW News Desk
- May 15, 2007
This June, Northwestern University's department of theatre and the Theatre and Interpretation Center will premiere the first of three new music theatre events that are part of the University's 2007 Summer Music Theatre Festival
by BWW News Desk
- May 14, 2007
Legendary director Harold Prince announced at a recent performance of the acclaimed Manhattan Theatre Club musical LoveMusik that Donna Murphy, who plays Lotte Lenya, and Judy Blazer, who plays Tilly Losch and one of Brecht's Women, will be out of the show until Tuesday evening.
by Walter McBride
- May 11, 2007
Devin Richards was chosen as the Gypsy Robe Winner for 110 in the Shade, which opened at Studio 54 on May 9th!
by BWW News Desk
- May 1, 2007
In honor of the 50th anniversary of West Side Story, Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre is producing a new show featuring a full 25-piece orchestra and a cast of 43 actors, singers and dancers.
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 9, 2007
Broadway stars will bring to life Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar at Saint Joseph Regional High School on Friday, March 30 at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, April 1 at 3:00 p.m
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 5, 2007
Nilaja Sun, whose solo show, No Child . . . is currently in its 11th hit month off-Broadway, won the Jury Prize at the 13th Annual Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO, this weekend.
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 29, 2007
New York City Center Encores! continues its 2007 season with the first full-scale restoration of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's 1932 musical, Face the Music.
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 28, 2007
Sal Viviano, Karen Mason and Rick Hilsabeck will star in the CAP21 reading of The Cosmopolitan
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
- Mar 28, 2007
'Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1938,' the latest star-studded entry of the acclaimed series, was presented on March 26th at Town Hall.
by Walter McBride
- Mar 26, 2007
David Eggers was chosen as the winner of the Gypsy Robe for Curtains, which opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on March 22nd
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 23, 2007
Lee Wilkof, Judy Kaye, Jeffry Denman, Walter Bobbie and Meredith Patterson recently took part in a press rehearsal for the upcoming Encores! presentation of Irving Berlin's Face the Music
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 2, 2007
Nancy Anderson will headline a free reading of the 'musical-noir' The Black Dahlia, presented as part of the York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series on March 7th at 7:30 PM.
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 15, 2007
The American Theatre Wing assembles a quartet of the industry's busiest casting directors on its upcoming 'Working in the Theatre' on CUNY TV on Sunday, March 18 at 5 p.m.
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 14, 2007
New York City Center Encores! will continue its 2007 season with the first full-scale restoration of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's 1932 musical, Face the Music, starring Judy Kaye, Walter Bobbie and Lee Wilkof
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 14, 2007
More names have been added to the cast of Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1938 at The Town Hall. There are now eleven performers who will perform under the direction of The Tony-nominated star of Side Show, Emily Skinner (who will also perform).
by Michael Dale
- Mar 13, 2007
Lin-Manual Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes's musical celebration of Washington Heights is easily one of the best musicals to open in New York this season, if not the best.
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 1, 2007
Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the world premiere of LoveMusik, a new musical featuring the songs of Kurt Weill, starring Tony Awardâ winners Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy.
by Ben Strothmann
- Jun 29, 2007
The York Theatre Company's I and Albert, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Jay Presson Allen, will play June 29, 39 and July 1 at the Theatre at Saint Peters
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 21, 2007
The York Theatre Company has announced full casting for I and Albert, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Jay Presson Allen.
by Mark Rupp
- Jun 2, 2007
On June 1st, the Laurie Beechman Theatre continued The After Party, which runs every Friday from 10:30PM till 2AM, with a visit by Devin Richards
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 13, 2007
Ths year marks the 50th anniversary of West Side Story, and Barrington Stage Company pays homage to this iconic American musical by producing a version that features an 11-piece orchestra and cast of 25 actors, singers and dancers.
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 1, 2007
Devin Richards will appear at After Party on June 1
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 1, 2007
The performers appearing in the Broadway at Birdland series in July and August will include Broadway's top Blonde Laura Bell Bundy; two-time Drama Desk nominee Nancy Anderson; Billy Stritch and some of 'his girls'; Ron Abel (with his girls including Lucie Arnaz); MAC Award winner Natalie Douglas, The Broadway Boys, and The Fabulous Pink Flamingos
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 30, 2007
The York Theatre Company will present the musical drama version of Of Mice and Men, based on the book by John Steinbeck as part of the Developmental Reading Series on Monday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. at The York Theatre at St. Peter's
by Linda Lenzi
- Jul 1, 2007
The York Theatre Company's I and Albert, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Jay Presson Allen, plays June 29, 39 and July 1 at the Theatre at Saint Peters
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 9, 2007
The 2006 Tony-honored BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop announces its Winter Smoker, a semiannual showcase for new songs from Workshop writers.
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 7, 2007
Final Casting announced for Keen Company's 'Tea and Sympathy.'
by Adrienne Onofri
- Feb 7, 2007
It's the third Broadway show for Sarah Jane, and the second time this former beauty pageant winner is understudying a Kristin Chenoweth part.
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 28, 2007
Five leading ladies will comprise the 'Broadway Divas,' a National Symphony Orchestra Pops concert performed at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center from April 12th through 14th.
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 26, 2007
A new musical, BIG TENT, based on the life of Tammy Faye Bakker, currently being developed by Ryan J. Davis, Jeffery Self, Ben Cohn, & Sean McDaniel, will have a private reading on Tuesday, February 27th.
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 14, 2007
A new Broadway revival of the Sondheim/Goldman masterpiece Follies may be in the works
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 7, 2007
On August 13th, the acclaimed 'Monday Nights, New Voices' series, now in its third successful year, will continue at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre.
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 15, 2007
A studio recording of the Broadway musical Anna Karenina, featuring some of Broadway's brightest, is now available.
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 13, 2007
On August 13th, the acclaimed 'Monday Nights, New Voices' series, now in its third successful year, will continue at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre.
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 30, 2007
Two-time Drama Desk nominee, Olivier Award nominee, and Helen Hayes nominee Nancy Anderson (Off-Broadway's Fanny Hill, Jolson and Co., Broadway's Wonderful Town) is returning to Birdland to celebrate the 1920's.
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 3, 2007
The American Theatre Wing will honor Carol Channing, James Earl Jones and Tommy Tune at its Annual Spring Gala on Monday, June 4, 2007.
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 26, 2007
Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com will present three of Broadway's most entertaining performers in May as part of Broadway at Birdland, a series of 7 PM concerts featuring top Broadway stars and theater songwriters at the legendary Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, NYC.
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 12, 2007
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey opens its newly extended 2007 season a month earlier than in the past with William Shakespeare's epic Henry V, which has not been seen at The Shakespeare Theatre in a decade.
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 11, 2007
Songwriter Steven Lutvak, joined by three guest stars, will return to The Duplex on Sunday, April 22nd at 8 PM for a special one-night-only concert.
Wonderful Town Frequently Asked Questions
What productions of Wonderful Town have there been?
Wonderful Town has had 11 productions including Broadway which opened in 1953, Broadway which opened in 1953, US Tour which opened in 1954, West End which opened in 1955, Regional (US) which opened in 1961, Off-Broadway which opened in 1963, West End which opened in 1986, Off-Broadway which opened in 1994, Off-Broadway which opened in 2000, Broadway which opened in 2003 and Broadway which opened in 2003.
What is the songs are in Wonderful Town and what's the order?
Christopher Street
Ohio
Conquering New York
One Hundred Easy Ways (to Lose a Man)
What a Waste
Story Vignettes
Never Felt This Way Before
Pass the Football
Conversation Piece
A Quiet Girl
Conga!
My Darlin' Eileen
Swing!
It's Love
Ballet at the Village Vortex
Wrong Note Rag
The Story of My Life
Self-Expression
Nice People, Nice Talk
Let It Come Down
Courtroom Ballet
Life in the Village
Chic
Police Station
Hallapalooza
Ohio
Conquering New York
One Hundred Easy Ways (to Lose a Man)
What a Waste
Story Vignettes
Never Felt This Way Before
Pass the Football
Conversation Piece
A Quiet Girl
Conga!
My Darlin' Eileen
Swing!
It's Love
Ballet at the Village Vortex
Wrong Note Rag
The Story of My Life
Self-Expression
Nice People, Nice Talk
Let It Come Down
Courtroom Ballet
Life in the Village
Chic
Police Station
Hallapalooza
