GROVERS CORNERS is the title of the Jones/Schmidt musical version of OUR TOWN, which nearly made it to Broadway. The 1950s TV musical of OUR TOWN, with Frank Sinatra as the Stage Manager, had (as noted in post below) a score by Cahn and Van Heusen, including "Love and Marriage."
There's also an opera of OUR TOWN by Ned Rorem, with a libretto by the poet J.D. McClatchy.
Kander and Ebb worked on a musical version of Wilder's THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, with a book by Joseph Stein, which was first titled OVER AND OVER and then ALL ABOUT US.
It's interesting that none of these works has had a New York production. Where musicalized Wilder plays are concerned, HELLO, DOLLY! seems to dominate the field. |
