Wonderful Town

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Jasmine Roy

Ruth Sherwood

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Rafaëlle Cohen

Eileen Sherwood

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Dalia Constantin

Helen

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Lauren van Kempen

Violet

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Alyssa Landry

Mrs Wade

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Maxime de Toledo

Robert Baker

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Thomas Boutilier

Wreck

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Franck Lopez

Lonigan

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Music	Leonard Bernstein
	Conductor	Larry Blank
Writing	Lyricist	Betty Comden Adolph Green
	Book	Joseph Fields Jerome Chodorov
	Writer	Ruth McKenney
Crew	Choreographer	Johan Nus
Directing	Director	Olivier Bénézech
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Frédéric Olivier
Lighting	Lighting Design	Marc-Antoine Vellutini
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