On the Town (film)

On the Town is a 1949 musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944 which itself is an adaptation of the Jerome Robbins ballet entitled Fancy Free which was also produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage version for instance, most of Bernsteins music was dropped in favor of new songs by Edens, who disliked the majority of the Bernstein score, for being too complex and too operatic. This caused Bernstein to boycott the film.

As three sailors Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie begin their shore leave, Gabey falls in love with the picture of Miss Turnstiles, who is actually Ivy Smith. The sailors race around New York attempting to find her in the brief period they have New York, New York.They are assisted by, and become romantically involved with, two women, and pair up Ozzie with Claire, an anthropologist and Chip with Hildy Esterhazy, an aggressively amorous taxi driver and eventually, Gabey with Ivy, an aspiring actress. Claire claims that shes found her passionate Prehistoric Man in Ozzie at the Museum of Anthropological History. Hildy invites Chip to Come Up to My Place. Gabey takes Ivy on an imaginary date down Main Street in a studio in Symphonic Hall. Later, Chip sincerely falls for Hildy telling her Youre Awful that is, awful nice to be with. That evening, all the couples meet at the top of the Empire State Building to celebrate a night On the Town. ........

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