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Wonderful Town (1953)
Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which in turn originated from autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney first published in The New Yorker in the late 1930s and later published in book form as My Sister Eileen.
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
"When I get in my composing period, it takes at least two, if not three weeks to get everyone else's notes [of the composers I've been conducting] out of my head -- Stravinsky's, Brahms', Mozart's."
-Leonard Bernstein, 1964