Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Block, Geoffrey (large ebook reader .txt) 📖

Tommy Rall, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore, Bob Fosse, André Previn (conductor). MGM 3077. Added: “From This Moment On,” dropped from Out of This World.

Original cast (1959): Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Lorenzo Fuller, Pembroke Davenport (conductor). Capitol STAO 126. Contents same as Original cast 1949.

Studio cast (1990): Josephine Barstow, Thomas Hampson, Kim Criswell, George Dvorsky, Damon Evans, David Garrison, John McGlinn (conductor). EMI/Angel CDS 54033–2.

Studio cast (1996): Thomas Allen, Diana Montague, Graham Bickley, Diane Langton, John Owen Edwards (conductor). Includes original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett. JAY 2–1296 (2 CDs).

Revival cast (1999): Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Amy Spanger, Michael Berresse, Paul Gemignani (conductor). DRG 03855 (2000).

FILM (MGM 1953): Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Tommy Rall, Bobby Van, Bob Fosse, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore, Carol Haney. Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley. Produced by Jack Cummings. Directed by George Sidney. Choreography by Hermes Pan (Bob Fosse uncredited). Deleted songs: “Another Opnin,’ Another Show,” “Bianca,” “I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple” [spoken]. [110 minutes]

Lady in the Dark

Original cast (1941): Gertrude Lawrence, MacDonald Carey, Donald Randolph, Maurice Abravenal (conductor). AEI 1146. Contents: “Oh, Fabulous One,” “One Life to Live,” “Girl of the Moment,” “It Looks Like Liza,” “The Saga of Jenny,” “My Ship,” and dialogue from act I, scenes 1, 2, 4, and 5. Lawrence’s “My Ship” (February 23, 1941) appears on Showstoppers: Historic Victor Recordings. BMG 9590–2 R (CD).

Original cast (1941): Kurt Weill from Berlin to Broadway, Vol. 1 (Pearl/Pavilion): Gertrude Lawrence, Danny Kaye. Contents: “Oh, Fabulous One,” “Huxley,” “Girl of the Moment,” “One Life to Live,” “The Is New,” “The Princess of Pure Delight,” “It’s Never Too Late to Mendelssohn,” “Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians),” “The Saga of Jenny,” and “My Ship.”

Original cast (1941): Gertrude Lawrence. Contents: “My Ship,” Jenny,” “This Is New,” “One Life to Live,” “Oh, Fabulous One,” “Huxley,” “Girl of the Moment,” “The Princess of Pure Delight.” Leonard Joy (conductor). Pearl GEM 0208, 2004.

Studio recording (1950s): Arthur Winograd (conductor). MGM E 3334. Contents: “Dance of the Tumblers.”

Studio cast (1963): Risë Stevens, Adolph Green, John Reardon, Lehman Engel (conductor). Columbia OS 2390; reissued on Time-Life P 16374, set STL AM10 with One Touch of Venus and The Threepenny Opera (set title, Kurt Weill); CD reissue MK44689. Missing: “Dance of the Tumblers.”

Original London cast (1998): Maria Friedman, Adrian Dunbar, James Dreyfus, Steven Edward Moore, Charlotte Cornwell. Mark W. Dorrell (conductor). CD: Jay Productions CDJAY 1278.

FILM (Paramount 1944): Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Jon Hall, Barry Sullivan, Mischa Auer. Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Produced by B. G. DeSylva. Directed by Leisen. Deleted songs: “My Ship,” “This Is New,” most of the “Glamour Dream” and the “Wedding Dream.” [100 minutes]

A Little Night Music

Original cast (1973): Len Cariou, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, Victoria Mallory, Laurence Guittard, Patricia Elliott, Mark Lambert, Harold Hastings (conductor). Columbia KS 32265.

FILM (Hen’s Tooth Video 1977): Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down, Hermione Gingold, Laurence Gittard, Christopher Guard, Chloe Franks, Heinz Maracek, Lesley Dunlop. Screenplay by Hugh Wheeler. Produced by Elliott Kastner. Directed by Harold Prince. [120 minutes]

Merrily We Roll Along

Original cast (1981): Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, Lonny Price, Paul Gemignani (conductor). RCA CBL1–4197.

The Most Happy Fella

Composer and studio cast (1953): An Evening with Frank Loesser: Frank Loesser Performs Songs from His Hit Shows. DRG 5169 (CD). Act I, Scene 1, vocals by Maxene Andrews as Cleo and unidentified singers (contains previously unreleased material). Contents: “Ooh! My Feet!,” “How’s About Tonight/House and Garden,” “The Letter,” and “Wanting to Be Wanted” (unused).

Original cast (1956): Robert Weede, Jo Sullivan, Art Lund, Susan Johnson, Shorty Long, Mona Paulee, Arthur Rubin, Herbert Greene (conductor). Columbia 03L 240; reissued on Columbia Special Products CO3L 240 (three LPs).

Revival cast (1992): Spiro Malas, Sophie Hayden, Scott Waara, Tim Stella (conductor). RCA 09026–61294–2 (two pianos).

My Fair Lady

Original cast (1956): Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway, Robert Coote, Franz Allers (conductor). Columbia OL 5090 (M); reissued on Columbia Special Products AOL 5090 (M) and E/Philip RBL 1000 (M). Missing: “The Embassy Waltz.”

Film cast (1964): Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn (sung by Marni Nixon), Stanley Holloway, André Previn (conductor). Columbia KOL 8000; reissued on Columbia JS 2600. Missing: “The Embassy Waltz.”

Lyricist (1971): An Evening with Johnny Mercer, Alan Jay Lerner and Sammy Cahn Singing Their Own Songs. Contents (Lerner only): “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?,” “Oh Come to the Ball,” and spoken introduction to “On the Street Where You Live.” Book-of-the-Month-Club Records 70–5240 (re-released on DRG 5175 [1977]).

FILM (Warner Bros. 1964): Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel. Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner. Produced by Jack L. Warner. Directed by George Cukor. Choreography by Hermes Pan. [170 minutes]

On Your Toes

Original cast, revival cast, composer, studio cast (1936–1954).*

Original revival cast (1954): Vera Zorina, Bobby Van, Elaine Stritch, Ben Astar, Kay Coulter, Joshua Shelley, Nicholas Orloff, Jack Williams, George Church, Salvatore Dell’Isola (conductor). Decca DL 9015; reissued on Stet DS 15024. Missing: “La Princesse Zenobia Ballet.”

Original revival cast (1983): Lara Teeter, George S. Irving, Dina Merrill, George De La Pena, Christine Andreas, John Mauceri (conductor). Polydor 813667–1 Y 1.

FILM (Warner Bros. 1939): Cast: Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert. Musical numbers: “Princesse Zenobia” (ballet), “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” (ballet). [93 minutes]

One Touch of Venus

Composer (1943): Tryout: A Series of Private Rehearsal Recordings—Including Actual Performances by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin. DRG 904 (CD). Contents: “West Wind,” “Very Very Very,” “Wooden Wedding,” “Speak Low,” “The Jersey Plunk” (“Way Out West in Jersey”), “The Trouble with Women” (quartet), and “That’s Him.”

Original cast (1943): Mary Martin, Kenny Baker, Maurice Abravanel (conductor). Decca DL 79122; reissued on AEI 1136; reissued on Time-Life P 16374, set STL AM10 with Lady in the Dark and The Threepenny Opera (set title, Kurt Weill). Contents: “I’m a Stranger Here Myself,” “Forty Minutes for Lunch (ballet),” “Speak Low,” “West Wind,” “Foolish Heart,” “The Trouble with Women,” “That’s Him,” “Wooden Wedding,” and “Venus in Ozone Heights (ballet).”

Studio cast (mainly): Ben Bagley’s Kurt Weill Revisited. Paula Lawrence (original