WONDERFUL TOWN: A New Musical Comedy, Music by Leonard Bernstein
by Fields, Joseph and Jerome Chodorov
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. The Tony Award-winning musical about two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress, respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. After a pre-Broadway try-out at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, Wonderful Town premiered at the Winter Garden on February 25, 1953, starring Rosalind Russell, Edie Adams, and George Gaynes. It is a lighter piece than Bernstein's later works, West Side Story and Candide, but none of the songs have become as popular. Octavo: [vi], 173 p. with photographic illustrations from the 1953 Broadway production. Original gray cloth binding, with a photographic illustration inset on the front panel and decorative green and gilt stamping. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76255
- Title
- WONDERFUL TOWN: A New Musical Comedy, Music by Leonard Bernstein
- Author
- Fields, Joseph and Jerome Chodorov
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Plays, Theater, Broadway, Musicals, American Literature, Books into Film, Performing Arts
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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