Seventy years ago, on December 28, 1944, On The Town opened on #Broadway. Carol J. Oja’s new book “Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War explores the historical significance of “#OnTheTown. A summary description of the book on the publishers website explains: “On The Town . . . marked the #Broadway debut of a soon-to-be-famous creative team, with Leonard #Bernstein as composer, Betty Comden and Adolph Green as lyricists and book-writers, and Jerome Robins as choreographer. There were many audacities to this youthful production. The star was the gorgeous Japanese-American dancer Sono Osato, even as her father was among the Japanese nationals interned in the United States. The stage manager was Peggy Clark, who was among the earliest women to serve in that role on Broadway. The cast included six African Americans, who were intentionally presented as part of a #multicultural citizenry, avoiding pernicious racial stereotypes of the era.” We share with you, in the link below, a photo gallery illustrating significant events in the history of On The Town: blog.oup/2014/12/original-bernstein-on-the-town-slideshow/
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:57:33 +0000
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