From the original 1944 Broadway production of On the Town, Nancy Walker and Cris Alexander sing “Come Up to My Place,” by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. The show was directed by George Abbott and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and the set was designed by Oliver Smith. This is an excerpt from the first episode of The Army-Navy Screen Magazine, a biweekly newsreel produced by the Signal Corps’ Army Pictorial Service under the supervision of Frank Capra. Released in 1945, it is the only known sound film of the original production of On the Town. A new Broadway revival of the show opens tomorrow night:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
