Wonderful Town

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With a keen sensitivity to the demands and specificities of the American “musical”, and after the triumph of Sondheim’s Follies in 2015, the Opéra de Toulon once again embarked on a Broadway adventure with the French premiere of Bernstein’s Wonderful Town, and brought back for the occasion stage director Olivier Bénézech, a major connoisseur of the genre. A true declaration of love to the city of New-York, Wonderful Town tells the tale, with a boisterous rhythm and vast amounts of jazzy tunes, of two sisters from Ohio looking for success and glory in the big city. Lighter in tone than later works like West Side Story or Candide, its smart combination of the different musical traditions one could hear when wandering in the streets of New-York, its accomplished orchestral writing and colouring, and its vivid sense of comedy earned it no less than five Tony awards when it premiered in 1953.

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Creators

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Olivier Bénézech

director

Betty Comden

writer

Adolph Green

writer

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Joseph Fields

writer

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Jerome Chodorov

writer

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Ruth McKenney

writer

Cast

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Jasmine Roy actor Rafaëlle Cohen actor

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Dalia Constantin actor

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Lauren van Kempen actor

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Alyssa Landry actor

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Maxime de Toledo actor

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Thomas Boutilier actor

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Franck Lopez actor

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Jacques Verzier actor

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Julian Salvia actor

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Jean-Yves Lange actor

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Grégory Garell actor

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Didier Siccardi actor

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Antoine Abello actor

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Jean Delobel actor Patrick Sabatier actor