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On The Town / Original London Cast

Release Date: 09/16/2014
Label: Sony Catalog #: 500728
Composer:  Leonard Bernstein Performer:  Howarth Nuttall ,  Gillian Lewis ,  Don McKay ,  Elliott Gould  ...  Conductor:  Laurence Leonard Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra Number of Discs: 1
Recorded in: Stereo

With music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, On The Town enjoyed a successful Broadway run during the 1940s. The London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1963 and starred Elliott Gould along with Don McKay, Carol Arthur, Andrea Jaffeand Gillian Lewis. The Original London Cast Recording of On the Town has never before been available in the U.S.

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Starring in the London production was Elliott Gould, not long after he closed on Broadway in I Can Get It for You Wholesale – his big break as a musical leading man, which was an even bigger break for his wife-to-be Barbra Streisand. Gould played the happy-go-lucky Ozzie (a role created by Adolph
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