It's appropriate that the hit 1949 movie of On the Town is being released on Blu-ray just as the first commercially successful Broadway revival of the original 1944 musical has been nominated for multiple awards. (Two previous revivals failed to attract audiences.) But any fan of the film co-directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly who buys a ticket to the show currently wowing audiences at the Lyric Theatre on 42nd Street is in for a shock. The film, which was produced by the reliable Arthur Freed Unit at MGM, retained the stage show's basic story about three sailors spending a day's shore leave in New York City, and it kept a few well-known songs, but much of the book and most of the score was tossed aside.
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