| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Wonderful Town', based on the play 'My Sister Eileen' by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov and the stories by Ruth McKenney; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list and script date [1955]; magazine extracts with photographs of scenes from the musical
Performed at The Princes Theatre, London, 23 Feb 1955, closing performance, 20 Aug 1955; music by Leonard Bernstein; lyrics by Betty Comdon and Adolph Green; presented by Jack Hylton; directed by Richard Bird; sets and costumes by Raoul Pene du Bois; lighting by Tommy Hayes and Bob Bolton; choreography re-created by Edmund Bain from the original by Donald Saddler
America: The Winter Garden, New York, Mar 1953; directed by George Abbott
Casts: Rosalind Russell, Edith Adams, George Gaynes, Henry Lascoe, Dort Clark, Jordan Bentley, Cris Alexander, Dody Goodman, Michael Kent, Seamus Gordon, David Hurst, Frank Wilson, Shirley Douglas, Sidney James, Judy Bruce, Stanley Robinson, Shani Wallis, Pat Kirkwood, Ray Browne, Michael Kent, Franklin Fox, Dennis Bowen, Robert Crane, Jean Stanley, Christopher Taylor, John Sinclair, Arthur Pendrick, Colin Croft, James Craigie, David Spurling, Dennis Driscoll, Peter Scott, Shani Wallis |