Introduction

New York, the most energetic city in the world! The limit is 24 hours! Can three sailors achieve a successful holiday in New York City!?
New York, the most energetic city in the world! The limit is 24 hours! Can three sailors achieve a successful holiday in New York City!?

STORY

In the 1940s. New York. 6 a.m.
From a warship anchoring in Brooklyn, three sailors, Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie who are allowed 24-hour leave spread into the city of New York for the first time ever in their lives.

On the subway, Gabey falls in love with Ivy on a poster at the first sight. The three sailors decide looking for her individually in different places. Chip meets a taxi driver, Hildy. On the other hand, Ozzie encountered an anthropologist Claire at the Museum of Natural History. They enjoy a moment's avant-turf. At that time, Gaby finds Ivy at the studio in Carnegie Hall and gets an appointment to meet her at night.

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Leonard Bernstein's first musical in Broadway’s
golden age Japan's first full-stage performance
with full-orchestra in the original language!

"One of the works that Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) brought talent to the world
more than ten years before the premier of his musical "West Side Story"(1957).

The danceable music that incorporates elements of jazz, catchy melodies,
and the choreography by Jerome Robbins became a big hit! In 1949, when Jean Kelly and Frank Sinatra
appeared in a movie, the musical was firmly recognized as a masterpiece.

It will be a first production with the original language, full-stage and full-orchestra ever in Japan!

  • Costume design
  • Costume design
  • Costume design by Antony McDonald

Fabulous cast members selected
from over 200 auditionees in London!

Antony McDonald, who works at renowned opera houses including the Royal Opera House in the UK, takes the stage direction, set and costume designs. Express a fancy, stylish "On The Town" like postcards in 40s New York!
This piece is filled with fantastic dance music! Ashley Page, a former artistic director of Scottish Ballet after the remarkable career the in Royal Ballet as a principal will choreograph the lively dance scenes!

The cast members were selected from large-scale auditions in London, one of the centre of performing arts in the world! The principals are opera singers active in the opera houses including the Royal Opera House and the English National Opera, with high singing and physical capability. 20 ensembles are active at major musical theatres and ballet companies in West End, London. Beyond the genre, Yutaka Sado, the artistic director, has achieved a dream-like lineup in which he believes it will be a historical production!

  • Set design
  • Set design
  • Set design by Antony McDonald

Greetings
We have presented 14 works in the Opera Series produced by the Hyogo Performing Arts Centrer.* As the next step, this year we will perform my mentor, Leonard Bernstein's "On the Town." There is no doubt that his memorable melodies and swinging sounds like jazz big bands from full orchestra, will bring you a different kind of enjoyment of performing arts than ever before! Antony McDonald, the stage director has created "A Midsummer Night's Dream" together with us, whose design was fashionable and with a lot of sense of humor! I'm excited to invite him again.
We also held auditions of singers in London on the occasion of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and I was surprised at the high level of the singers. This time as well, the performers who won the auditions are excellent. "On The Town," a comprehensive art compilation of elements that create the stage. Surely, it will be a historical production!

Yutaka Sado, the artistic director

* Opera Series produced Archives