Meanwhile, Tim Howar's Ozzie gets Lucy Schaufer as Claire, a bluestocking anthropologist with nymphomaniacal tendencies - and a fiancé. It will surprise nobody that this lottery-odds chance comes up.īefore it does so, Chip meets a kooky taxi-driver, the versatile Caroline O'Connor getting to drive a marvellous, skeleton Yellow Cab on stage, in the part of Hildy.
This is all very well, but the Gene Kelly part of Gabey, played by Joshua Dallas, decides that his day won't be complete without meeting Miss Turnstiles, the lucky underground train rider chosen as the most desirable that month.Īs his down-to-earth pal Chip (Adam Garcia in the Sinatra role) points out, this gives him a one in 2.5 million chance of finding her, let alone getting a date. The musical's most memorable and probably best known song tells us that "It's a helluva Town" and so it proves for 2½ hours.Īs their type is supposed to, the implausibly handsome trio decide that their goal will be to pick up girls. Three hick sailors are on a single night of shore leave in New York City. The story will be known to anyone familiar with Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's 1949 movie, which starred Frank Sinatra alongside Kelly.
Three years on and after a revival at ENO ( reviewed for the BTG by Kevin Catchpole), most of the original cast have crossed the Channel to play to packed houses at the 2,000 seat Théâtre du Châtelet, the least formal of Paris opera houses. It took Leonard Bernstein's 1944 musical and introduced opera singers and ballet dancers to play alongside musical stars on a big stage with lavish designs, courtesy of Richard Jones, an always impressive designer, who is used to working in opera houses.
In 2005, when it opened at the Coliseum, Jude Kelly's spectacular production of On the Town was a pioneering work in the cross-over genre of musical-operas.
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