Cities in Broadway Musicals Representing Your City — Page 2

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

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)...

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

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

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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.

Yonkers~ Hello Dolly!

Napa, CA in "The Most Happy Fella"

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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.

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