Gallery Players To Produce Classic Musical Wonderful Town
PARK SLOPE — The Gallery Players will swing into spring with their production of Wonderful Town. Directed by Mark Haborth and produced by Heather Siobhan Curran, The Gallery Players’ revival of this classic New York musical comedy will open Saturday, April 28, at 8 p.m.
This delightful staple of the musical theater canon is about the adventures and misadventures of two sisters who move from small-town Ohio to the bohemia of 1935 Greenwich Village. Eileen is gorgeous, sweet and an aspiring actress with men falling at her feet. Ruth, while a gifted writer, is average-looking, brazen and has a talent for repelling gentlemen callers.
With a glorious score of swinging tunes by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Wonderful Town is the quintessential New York musical comedy about tackling your dreams and finding love in the most unexpected places. Wonderful Town was the winner of five Tony Awards in 1953, including Best Musical.