Wonderful Town: big time swing
Wonderful Town has opened to rave reviews " so why isn't it staged more often? Alfred Hickling talks to the team who put the dazzle back into BernsteinIn 2004, the music director of the Hallé, Mark Elder, found himself at a loose end in New York. He had a night off from conducting at the Metropolitan Opera and decided to indulge his passion for musical theatre. Broadway was, he recalls, "jammed with the usual r…