Two Cities (musical) going on to play Arwen in the London premiere of the stage musical based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". The original cast for the musical: Two Cities (musical) Two Cities is a 2006 stage musical by Howard Goodall based on the 1859 novel "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. The music and lyrics were written by Goodall, and the book was co-written by Goodall and Joanna Read. Unlike the novel, which is set in the French Revolution, the musical is set in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the "two cities" of the title are not
A Tale of Two Cities sign of the gold-beater's craft) now resides at the Charles Dickens Museum but you could have seen a modern replica sticking out of the wall near the Pillars of Hercules pub at the western end of Manette Street (formerly Rose Street), until this building was demolished in 2017. In United States politics, at the 1984 Democratic National Convention, the keynote speaker Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York delivered a scathing criticism of then-President Ronald Reagan's comparison of the United States to a "shining city on a hill" with an allusion to Dickens' novel, saying: "Mr. President, you ought to know