ABSTRACT
We were leaving the Delacorte Theater in Central Park after a night out at On the Town, George C. Wolfe’s revival of the 1944 musical that amounts to a love letter to New York. This was the first full-length Broadway show for the young Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins (who together would go on to create West Side Story), and it was the Broadway debut of two lyricists and librettists, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who in their turn would become legend. Attending the show in Central Park were Ms. Comden and Mr. Green, and as they quietly got up to leave, looking quite proud and saying hello to a few friends, people began to applaud them.
