 Comden and Green's first Broadway show was in 1944, with "On the Town", a musical about three sailors on leave in New York City that was an expansion of a ballet entitled "Fancy Free" on which Bernstein had been working with choreographer Jerome Robbins.Comden and Green wrote the book and lyrics, which included sizable parts for themselves (as "Claire" and "Ozzie").Their next musical, "Billion Dollar Baby" in 1945, with music by Morton Gould was not a success, and their 1947 show "Bonanza Bound" closed out-of-town and never reached Broadway.