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LEONARD BERNSTEIN 1918-1990 Wonderful Town Ruth Sherwood Kim Criswell Eileen Sherwood Audra McDonald Bob Baker Thomas Hampson Wreck Brent Barrett Guide/First Editor/Frank Lippencott Rodney Gilfry Second Editor/Chick Clark Carl Daymond Lonigan Timothy Robinson... Birmingham Contemporary Music Group London Voices Sir Simon Rattle conductor STEREO · RECORDED IN 1998 An enormous success at the time, with a Broadway run of 559 performances, Wonderful Town shows off the talents of Bernstein, Comden and Green, who wrote the songs against the clock in just four weeks. Whether it's jazz, cod-Irish, ragtime, ballad or conga, there's the sound of creativity working at full stretch.