My Sister Eileen 1980's?

Hey peeps.

So hear is the deal, one of my profs at school tells me that he was apart of a color blind production of My Sister Eileen during the 1980s that went on for a few months at the Schubert Theater. I searched originally because I thought it would be so cool to see my teacher's name on ibdb and try to find some production photos. But my search had lead me to nothingness. Just the 1940's productions with names that I don't recognize.


Does anyone know if the 1980's production existed? If not that would make my prof a liar and that would really break my heart.

What has me questioning my prof's honesty is that he says that My Sister Eileen was later turned into a musical called On the Town At first I thought he made a mistake and intended to say Wonderful Town but I responded "One the Town, about the war and sailors?" He said, " Right, thats it".

So this has me so confused because people on campus have so much respect for this professor and I really don't want this to be a lie.

C'mon BrodyFosse123 and others, I just know you all gotta know this one.

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Sorry to have to bad mouth your professor but he seems to have his facts mixed up. First, A CHORUS LINE was playing at the Shubert Theatre throughout the 1980's so MY SISTER EILEEN couldn't have played there. Second, MY SISTER EILEEN became WONDERFUL TOWN, not ON THE TOWN, although Leonard Bernstein did write the scores to both of those shows.

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Didn't City Opera do a version of WONDERFUL TWON in the 80's?

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Either My Sister Eileen or Wonderful Town may have been a part of the City Center Theatre, but I think they were pretty much defunct in the 80s. I know there was a theater in Milwaukee called the Melody Top and they had Wonderful Town with Sheila MacRae, because a friend of mine was her dresser and hated her.

Maybe it was an off or off-off Broadway revival?

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I saw WONDERFUL TOWN as performed by the New York City Opera in the 1990's and it was a lifeless show, despite its excellent score. City Opera just can't get that Broadway excitement. An exception was their production of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA which was excellent.

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I can't remember who played Ruth and Eileen, although the actress playing Eileen was good. Sorry.

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You have joggled my memory. Crista Moore(Eileen) played Louise/Gypsy Rose Lee in the Tyne Daly production of GYPSY. She was wonderful in that role, as was Tyne Daly.

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