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ADDITION - 11/21/08 - 11:15AM EST

Talkin' Broadway

Review: On the Town
City Center Encores! has become renowned around town for its annual commitment to presenting elaborate concerts of musicals' scores that might otherwise misplace or diminish. But with the new Encores! production of On the Town, running through Sunday, there's reason to suspect that the venerable series may heretofore have missed - or at least undervalued - an even higher calling: dance. . . .

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New York Times

Drop Me Off at Broadway, 1944
The fleet’s in this weekend, at least on 55th Street, where a radiant production of “On the Town” has docked at City Center through Sunday.

New York Daily News

'On the Town' Broadway revival lacks pizzazz
How do you do "On the Town," a show that's all about celebrating New York, and virtually erase the city from the proceedings? The result is tall-on-concept, short-on-pizzazz....

amNY

Theater Review of On the Town
Do not judge the groundbreaking 1944 Broadway musical “On the Town” by its lame 1949 MGM movie version starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra

New York Post

It's a helluva 'Town'
It may be 64 years old, but 1944's "On the Town," now enjoying a brief revival at Encores!, still bursts with the freshness...

Associated Press

City Center's 'On the Town' remains forever young
Some Broadway melodies never get old. Consider the music Leonard Bernstein composed for "On the Town." It's among the musical theater's most youthful and exuberant.

TheaterMania

Review: On the Town
Encores! presents a polished staging of the just-about-perfect 1944 musical.

Back Stage

On the Town (In Concert) reviewed by David Sheward
Director John Rando has given this tale of three sailors on a 24-hour leave in World War II Gotham a fully realized production full of life, excitement, elaborate comic bits, and three-dimensional characters.

Variety

Review: On the Town
The Bronx is still up and the Battery down, and "On the Town" remains a helluva show. That's the word just in from City Center, where Encores! has contributed to this fall's cornucopious Leonard Bernstein festival with the musical that first took the remarkable Lenny out of the concert hall and put him on the showbiz A-list.