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unusual facts about Wonderful Town


Dody Goodman

Goodman gained a measure of newspaper column space for her dancing solos in such Broadway musicals as High Button Shoes (1947), and Wonderful Town (1953).


Al Hirschfeld Theatre

On June 21, 2003, it was renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in honor of the caricaturist famous for his drawings of Broadway celebrities, and reopened on November 23, 2003, with a revival of the musical Wonderful Town.

Elmarie Wendel

Among her theater credits, she performed in, among other productions, Wonderful Town, Cole Porter Revisited, Little Mary Sunshine and Gigi.

Jackie McKeever

McKeever is most known for starring in a television adaptation of the musical Wonderful Town opposite Rosalind Russell in 1958.

Peter Kaczorowski

He has more than 45 Broadway plays and musicals to his credit including "Nice Work If You Can Get It", "Venus in Fur", "Wit", "Anything Goes", "A View From the Bridge", The Pajama Game, Seascape, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wonderful Town, Anna in the Tropics, and revivals of The Music Man and Kiss Me, Kate.

Robert Fryer

Some of his most notable theatrical productions include: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Wonderful Town, Auntie Mame, Redhead, Chicago, On The Twentieth Century, and Sweeney Todd.


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George Gaynes

He alternated between stage musicals and both comic and dramatic plays, including his role as Bob Baker in the original production of Wonderful Town (1953), Jupiter in the Cole Porter musical Out of This World, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and as Henry Higgins in the 1964 US tour of My Fair Lady.

Mel Ferber

As a member of CBS, Ferber directed Wonderful Town, the first live two-hour show on TV, in 1958.