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...Leonard Bernstein...
Wonderful Town has a better claim to the term musical comedy than any show you're likely to see this year. Combining a distinctive score by Leonard Bernstein and a book which is My Sister Eileen almost intact, the products have set music to the play rather than the play to music. As a result, Wonderful Town is a rare compound of expert--if familiar--comedy with the elegant adjuncts of a top quality musical...
With the same vigor and originality which marked Bernstein's score for On the Town, his music is a pleasant change from the trite insipidity of current show tunes. "Wrong Note Rag" piques the ear with delightful dissonance, and in "Pass That Football," a tribute to the well-paid college athlete, the eloquent stupidity of Bernstein's lumbering rhythm is as comic as the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. While the intricacy of some of his music challenges both the lyricist and the singer's enunciation, Bernstein can write simple and memorable melodies. Wonderful Town has at least...
...Opera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Television premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti...
Leaders of the drive are co-Chairmen Laurence I. Alpert '54 and Gordon L. Brumm '53; Secretary Richard I. Breuer '54; Publicity Directors Frederick L. Bernstein '55 and Daniel Fitzpatrick '56; Radcliffe Chairman Lois L. Ebeling...