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 republished the chapters as eight monthly sections in green covers. All but three of Dickens's previous novels had appeared only as monthly instalments. The first weekly instalment of "A Tale of Two Cities" ran in the first issue of "All the Year Round" on 30 April 1859. The last ran thirty weeks later, on 26 November. "A Tale of Two Cities" has been cited as one of the best-selling novels of all time. It has been stated to have sold 200 million copies since its first publication, though this figure has been dismissed as "pure fiction" by Oxford University's Peter