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Wonderful Town

King's Theatre, Glasgow
From: Tuesday, 8th May 2012
To: Saturday, 12 May 2012

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Synopsis

The story of two sisters from Ohio arriving in 1930's New York with dreams of the big time. Featuring the show stopping numbers 'A Quiet Girl', 'It's Love', 'A Little Bit in Love' and 'Ohio'.

Our Review:

Scott Purvis - 10 May 2012

Time and time again, New York City has proven itself to be the most knee-slapping town on the landscape of American musical theatre. Bobbing her hair and heading East, Millie Dillmount took Manhattan as a thoroughly modern flapper in 1922; here, too, in the gutters of Skid Row, Seymour Krelborn made the acquaintance of a new breed of fly-trap and got sweet-talked into feeding it blood in the gloriously gruesome Little Shop of Horrors.

Perhaps more so than any other composer, Leonard Bernstein captured the noise and frenzy of old New York. In its bustling streets, Bernstein saw a rousing symphony waiting to be scored; in the sounding alarms of its railways, he heard the noise of a brass section. Here, in the shadow of his oft-revived masterpiece, West Side Story, sits Wonderful Town, a forgotten gem from the fifties, wonderfully reinvented for this national tour by director Braham Murray.

Meet Eileen and Ruth, Ohio sisters who up sticks from ...

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