Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City- Page 2

[mikewood]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#25

Posted: 6/16/05 at 9:40am

Not my town, but I found it a hoot to see that Natick MA (where I directed Miracle on 34th Street last year) was specifically mentioned in "Elegies" and I really want to hear the song.

Didn't 1776 take place at Freedom.... EDIT: Independance mea culpa.... Hall in Philadelphia?

Thanks....I'm not a total idiot; I knew that but I was listening to Elton John this morning....!

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Updated On: 6/16/05 at 09:40 AM

[mikewood]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#26

Posted: 6/16/05 at 9:45am

I live near the town that believes itself to be the town from "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. I don't know how much truth there is to the claim.

Edit: er, not that "Our Town" is a musical...guh!

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Updated On: 6/16/05 at 09:45 AM

[OnTheAisle]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#27

Posted: 6/16/05 at 9:46am

INDEPENDENCE Hall actually... and being from the Philadelphia area, we get treated to this wonderful description of the City of Brotherly Love from 1776:

"foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy - Philadelphia" (oh, the shame, the shame)...

"Not a day goes by..."

[november]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#28

Posted: 6/16/05 at 9:52am

Buffalo, NY Full Monty 42nd Street

[lamentingenvelope]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#29

Posted: 6/16/05 at 11:35am

They mention Pittsburgh a few times in Seussical... can't think of any more off the top of my head though

[Greekmusicalfan]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#30

Posted: 6/16/05 at 11:40am

Well, not my city, but the whole of Mamma Mia takes place in Greece, so there you go :)
I don't know, is there a musical mentioning Athens (not the Georgia one) ? I don't think so.

[cathyhyatt]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#31

Posted: 6/16/05 at 11:47am

I live in Connecticut how could that ever happen to me?! I live in town the people only surrounding my area would even know.

"You won't fight without layers of armor Suit on up and come brace my sword You look back when the pieces are missing Hollowed out hope that no time can restore."

[Popular]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#32

Posted: 6/16/05 at 11:55am

"Los Angeles? You're taking me to Los Angeles?" - The Life :)

[thespian geek]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#33

Posted: 6/16/05 at 12:34pm

Joanna Gleason's character in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is from Omaha, Nebraska ("I'm Muriel of Omaha"). I think that's the only show that mentions Omaha that I've heard recently enough, though there's a song they play on the showtunes channel alot on my TV that mentions a bar just north of Omaha.. I haven't heard it in awhile though, so I can't remember the lyric. Eh.

[littleredridinghood]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#34

Posted: 6/16/05 at 12:44pm

Ragtime takes place in New Rochelle, New York, which is only like two minutes away from where I live.

[QtKt]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#35

Posted: 6/16/05 at 2:47pm

Yonkers~ Hello Dolly!

[apdarcey]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#36

Posted: 6/16/05 at 3:41pm

mikewood, where you from? and pm if you want the actual 14 dwight ave, natick massachusetts song. it's specifically mentioned because that's the address where bill finn grew up!

[PramsAclams]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#37

Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:21pm

Napa, CA in "The Most Happy Fella"

It's eckspecially apropos So if you really want to know Do I love you? Don't aks.

[Enjolras77]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#38

Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:26pm

Hey TheatreDiva...I went to school right up the road from Winston-Salem in Boone....and now live in Charlotte. I thought of the same thing when I heard "Winston-Salem"--I almost flipped. I go there once a year for the music educators convention. I am wondering if the street address that Clara mentions in the show actually exists.

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

[Enjolras77]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#39

Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:34pm

Even though I'm not from there...I have traveled to Atlanta several times for various reasons. After "Parade" opened, I became very interested in the musical and the true story behind the musical. I went to Atlanta and found all of the sites related to Leo Frank. There was (and maybe still is) and exhibit at the Jewish Cultural Museum in Atlanta that had a lot of artifacts from the case. They had belongings of Leo's as well as the door from his cell in Milledgeville. It was quite an experience.

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

[DefyGravity23]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#40

Posted: 6/16/05 at 7:53pm

River City from "The Music Man" is based off of Mason City, Iowa because Meredith Wilson grew up there. Okay, so I don't actually live in Mason City. I don't even live in the same state! Haha, but I have a lot of relatives up there, and it's my mom's hometown so I've been there many many times. I've even gone to the museum type thing called "Music Man Square" that they have there.

No references to my town yet. :-P

[BwayFan4]

re: Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City#41

Posted: 6/16/05 at 8:56pm

I live in Allentown Pa.....mentioned in 42nd Street and Bye Bye Birdie