George S. Kaufman and Max Gordon's 1940 theater production "My sister Eileen" was based on Ruth McKenney's bestseller of the same name. In this book she describes how she and her sister leave Ohio to seek their happiness in New York. In the early 1950s this homage to Greenwich Village was put back into production, this time with music by Leonard Bernstein. This music has been released on CD in a
… performance with, among others, Kim Criswell, Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson, the London Voices and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Simon Rattle. (HJ) _more
