Fancy Free

ballet by Robbins

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  • Jerome Robbins
    In Jerome Robbins

    …his first, spectacularly successful ballet, Fancy Free, with a musical score by the young composer Leonard Bernstein. This ballet, featuring three American sailors on shore leave in New York City during World War II, displayed Robbins’ acute sense of theater and his ability to capture the essence of contemporary American…

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