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One weekend in 1944, he attended Jerome Robbins's exuberant ballet "Fancy Free," about three sailors on leave in New York.

Based on an idea supplied by the choreographer Jerome Robbins, "On the Town" is, to some degree, the musical version of Robbins's 1944 ballet, "Fancy Free," about which the brilliant dance critic Edwin Denby wrote: It's sentiment of how people live in this country is completely intelligent and completely realistic.

Which brings us to On the Town, that delicious confection inspired by Jerome Robbins' groundbreaking ballet Fancy Free, about three sailors on shore leave.

In contrast, "Fancy Free" is about as close to realism as ballet can get.

The three sailors on the town in Jerome Robbins's "Fancy Free" are about to go off to war.

From Robbins, we get the adolescent "Interplay," with music by Morton Gould, and "Fancy Free" (1944), about three sailors on shore leave in the big city.

That bars can inspire ballets as different as "St . LouisWoman" and "Fancy Free" prompts speculation about what other unusual settings could stimulate choreographers.

Tonight's offerings include "Serenade," George Balanchine's lyrical masterpiece; "New Bach," by Robert Garland, a former dancer with the company; "Meditation," Frederick Ashton's romantic pas de deux; and "Fancy Free," Jerome Robbins's comedy about sailors on shore leave.

The highlight of the "All Robbins" program is "Fancy Free," made in 1944, a youthful caper about three sailors on shore leave; an immediate hit, it quickly became a musical and a film.

JEROME ROBBINS: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man Edited by Christine Conrad Editionsibborn Editions ($49.50, hardcover) Despite many initial rejections from composers he approached, Robbins didn't waver in his conviction about the worth of "Fancy Free" and stayed focused on his goal.

Four years later, for that company, he made his first ballet — the now famous "Fancy Free," with a jazzy score by the young Leonard Bernstein — about three sailors on shore leave.