Celebration Of A City Immortalized Through Music On The Town:
New York, New York (ensemble) • Ya Got Me (Murphy, Blazer, Patinkin) • Come Up To My Place (Patinkin, Blazer) • Lonely Town (Upshaw) • Some Other Time (Patinkin) • Ain’t Got No Tears Left (Murphy) Wonderful Town: What a Waste (Muenz, Upshaw, Murphy) • A Quiet Girl (Muenz) • Wrong Note Rag (Patinkin) • Story of My Life (Blazer) • A Little Bit in Love (McDonald) West Side Story: One Hand, One Heart (Upshaw, Muenz) • Balcony Scene (Tonight) (McDonald, Patinkin)
Featuring Contributions From:
Eric Stern, Harold Prince, Frank Rich, Jonathan Schwartz, Sono Osato, George Gaynes, Allyn Ann McLerie, Humphrey Burton
A new generation of American musical theater artists come together in a “glorious mosaic of Leonard Bernstein’s show tunes” (New York Times). Brilliantly filmed in the very New York locations celebrated by the songs - Coney Island, Central Park, Times Square - this DVD joins today’s performers with the ageless music of perhaps New York’s greatest musical personality. On the Town, Wonderful Town and West Side Story chronicle the city in all its variety and excitement, and these performances bring a heightened measure of entertainment to Bernstein’s singular achievement. “New York, New York! a helluva town!” the company sings - it was never truer than in Leonard Bernstein’s New York today.