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1.1 Prologue1.2 Sweet Bye and Bye1.3 Scientists Scene1.4 Born Too Late1.5 Ham That I Am1.6 Solomon at Futurosy1.7 Yes, Yes1.8 As You Were Saying1.9 Diana1.10 Factory Ballet1.11 Too Enchanting1.12 I Says to Him1.13 Let's Be Young1.14 Diana Says Goodbye1.15 Round About1.16 Executives Anonymous1.17 Knife's Recitative1.18 Our Parents Forgot to Get Married1.19 My Broker Told Me So1.20 Just Like a Man1.21 Utility Polka1.22 It's Good1.23 Where Is Bundy?1.24 The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull1.25 Eskimo Bacchante1.26 Sweet Bye and Bye (Reprise) |
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Number of discs: |
1 |
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Description: | Could Sweet Bye and Bye be the greatest theatre score no one's ever heard? It certainly boasts an amazing pedigree: music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by Ogden Nash, a book by S. J. Perelman and Al Hirschfeld. It crashed and burned during it's pre-Broadway tryout in 1946 for various reasons - some conceptual, some creative, some casting-related - but at the end of the day what's left is a glorious collection of songs: restlessly inventive, playful and romantic - perhaps Vernon Duke's finest theatrical achievement. A futuristic farce sending up big business, telecommunications, robotics, space travel, self-help groups and even the traditions of courtship and matrimony, at heart Sweet Bye and Bye is a simple love story with some of the most beautiful ballads Broadway had ever heard. The world premiere recording of this Broadway-musical-that-never-was has been lovingly restored from Duke and Nash's original manuscripts by producer Tommy Krasker and orchestrator Jason Carr. With conductor Eric Stern leading the orchestra, and featuring a cast of Broadway and recording veterans - including Danny Burstein, Philip Chaffin, Jim Stanek, Heidi Blickenstaff, Graham Rowat, Michele Ragusa, Telly Leung, Sara Jean Ford and, in the starring role originated by Dolores Gray, Marin Mazzie - Sweet Bye and Bye is perhaps the ultimate jewel in the crown of PS Classics' forgotten musicals series.World Premier Recording.
Contains a 32-page booklet with lyrics and essay, housed with CD case in a slipcover. |
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Producer: |
Tommy Krasker |
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No. of tracks: |
26 |
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Manufacturer No.: |
PSCC1198.2 |
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