Follow Us on Tumblr

troperville

tools

toys

SubpagesMain

main index

Narrative

Genre

Media

Topical Tropes

Other Categories

TV Tropes Org
random
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 musical comedy by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, with music by Leonard Bernstein, about the adventures of three sailors on liberty in New York City. Traveling around the city by cab and by subway, they variously visit the Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Hall, Coney Island (in both imaginary and real versions), three nightclubs and two girls' apartments before their twenty-four hours are up.

The musical was made into a 1949 MGM film version, which featured Gene Kelly, Vera-Ellen, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Jules Munshin, Ann Miller, and not much of the original score. Comden and Green were around to write the screenplay, so the plot stayed roughly the same.

See also Anchors Aweigh (the first paring with Kelly and Sinatara).
This musical show includes examples of:

Passport To PimlicoFilms of the 1940sThe Secret Garden
Mighty Joe YoungThe FortiesShe Wore a Yellow Ribbon

random
3234
4