On the Town
Musical by Adolph Green and Betty ComdenWikipedia
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Search complete. 3 mentions across 3 episodes found for "On the Town".
Sep 15, 2026
NickHOST
Yes, yeah.
GavinHOST
He finally won a Tony Award in 2019 for the revival of On the Town.
GavinHOST
He did the costumes starring Bernadette Peters.
GavinHOST
Amazing.
Lin-Manuel MirandaGUEST
It had to be called New York, New York.
Lin-Manuel MirandaGUEST
Um, they were threatened with legal action from the On The Town team.
Lin-Manuel MirandaGUEST
Um-
Griffin NewmanHOST
Mm
speaker_0SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bach, Beethoven, and Herr Johannes Brahms.
Adolph GreenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
As some of you may know, those were numbers from On the Town, which was the first show for which Betty and I wrote the book and lyrics.
Adolph GreenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, this was also the first Broadway show for Leonard Bernstein, and it was also the first and last time to date that we had played parts in a Broadway show.
Adolph GreenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Anyway, while still working on the show, we got to work on the next one, which turned out to be a musical comedy called Billion Dollar Baby, with music by Morton Gould.