Enchanted Evenings:The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber by Block, Geoffrey (good story books to read .TXT) 📕

Original Lincoln Center revival cast (1966): Barbara Cook, Constance Towers, Stephen Douglass, David Wayne, William Warfield, Franz Allers (conductor). RCA LSO 1126.

London cast (1971): Cleo Laine, Thomas Carey, Lorna Dalla, Kenneth Nelson, Andrew Jobin, Ena Cabayo, Ray Cook (conductor). Stanyon Records 10048 (two LPs).

Studio cast (1988): Frederika von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Jerry Hadley, Paige O’Hara, David Garrison, Bruce Hubbard, John McGlinn (conductor). EMI/Angel CDS 7–49108–2.

Revival cast (1994): Rebecca Luker, Lonette McKee, Mark Jacoby, Elaine Stritch, Michel Bell, Gretha Boston, Robert Morse, Jeffrey Huard (conductor). Quality 257.

“The Ultimate ‘Showboat’” (1999): Contains the Original Revival Cast (1932) [eight songs], the Original Revival Cast (1946), and other historic and novelty Show Boat recordings.

FILM (Universal 1929): Cast: Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan. Produced by Carl Laemmle. Directed by Harry A. Pollard. Songs (from Show Boat): “Ol’ Man River,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man.” [146 minutes with prologue; 129 minutes without prologue]

FILM (Universal 1936): Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley, Hattie McDaniel, Queenie Smith, Sammy White. Screenplay by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. Directed by James Whale. Deleted songs: New songs: “I Have the Room above Her,” “Gallivantin’ Around,” “Ah Still Suits Me.”[113 minutes]

FILM (MGM 1951): Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion, Robert Sterling, Agnes Moorehead, Leif Erickson, William Warfield. Screenplay by John Lee Mahin. Produced by Arthur Freed. Directed by George Sidney. Songs: “Cotton Blossom,” “Where’s the Mate for Me?,” “Make Believe,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” “I Might Fall Back on You,” “Ol’ Man River,” “You Are Love,” “Why Do I Love You?,” “Bill,” “After the Ball.” [108 minutes]

Sunday in the Park with George

Original cast (1984): Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Charles Kimbrough, Barbara Bryne, Dana Ivey, Paul Gemignani (conductor). RCA HBC1–5042.

FILM (Brandman Productions, 1986): Cast: Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Charles Kimbrough, Barbara Bryne, Dana Ivey. Produced by Iris Merlis. Directed for the Broadway stage by James Lapine; directed for television by Terry Hughes. Paul Gemignani (conducter). [146 minutes]

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Original Cast (1979): Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Sarah Rice, Edmund Lyndeck, Paul Gemignani (conductor). RCA 3379–2-RC.

Film cast (2007): Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen. Paul Gemignani (conductor). None-such 368572–2.

FILM (Warner Bros. 1982): Cast: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn. Produced by Bonnie Burns. Directed for the stage by Harold Prince; directed for television by Terry Hughes. [139 minutes]

Film cast (DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures 2007): Screenplay by John Logan. Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Logan. Directed by Tim Burton. Deleted songs: “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” (underscoring only), “Ah, Miss,” “Johanna” (Judge’s version), “God, That’s Good!” (nearly all), “The Letter,” “Parlor Songs,” “City on Fire!” (from Final Sequence). [116 minutes]

West Side Story

Original cast (1957): Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Chita Rivera, Max Goberman (conductor). Columbia OL 5230; reissued on Columbia S 32603. Missing: “Taunting.”

Film cast (1961): Natalie Wood (sung by Marni Nixon), Richard Beymer (sung by Jim Bryant), Rita Moreno (sung by Betty Wand), Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, John Green (conductor). Columbia OS 2070; reissued with previously unreleased masters on Sony SK 48211 (1992).

Studio cast (1985): Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Kurt Ollmann, Tatiana Troyanos, Leonard Bernstein (conductor). Deutsche Grammophon 415253–1/4.

Revival cast (2009): Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione, Karen Olivo, Patrick Vaccariello (conductor). Sony Masterworks 752391.

FILM (Mirisch/United Artists 1961): Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris. Screenplay by Ernest Lehman. Produced by Robert Wise. Directed by Wise and Jerome Robbins. Choreography by Robbins. [152 minutes]

* By the late 1980s all shows were issued in compact disc (the numbers given in this Discography) or tape formats. Many older long-playing cast recordings have also been reissued on CDs in recent years.

† Throughout, no attempt is made to honor the distinctions between conductor, musical director, or musical supervisor. The term “conductor” is used exclusively.

* See Hummel, vol. 1, 32.

* See Hummel, vol. 1, 430.

* See Hummel, vol. 1,462.

† See Hummel, vol. 1, 520–21 for a comprehensive listing of original Broadway and London cast excerpts between 1928 and 1936.

‡ Ibid., 522.

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Sources, Published Librettos, and Vocal Scores

Anything Goes (1934)

Source: Original book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.

Published Libretto: None (rentals of Off-Broadway 1962 and Beaumont Version 1987 rental available from Tams-Witmark Music Library).

Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co., and Harms (Broadway 1934); Vocal Selections Revival Edition, Warner Bros., 1988 (Broadway 1987).

Carousel (1945)

Source: Liliom (1921) by Ferenc Molnár (as adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer) (New York: Samuel French, 1945). [play]

Published Libretto: Six Plays by Rodgers and Hammerstein (New York: Modern Library Association, 1959).

Published Vocal Score: Williamson Music Co., 1945.

The Cradle Will Rock (1937)

Source: Original book by Marc Blitzstein.

Published Libretto: The Cradle Will Rock (New York: Random House, 1938); reprinted in The Best Short Plays of the Social Theatre, ed. William Kozlenko (New York: Random House, 1939).

Published Vocal Score: None (rental available from Tams-Witmark Music Library).

Guys and Dolls (1950)

Source: “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown” and “Pick the Winner” by Damon Runyon. Guys and Dolls. Philadelphia: (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1931). [short stories]

Published Libretto: The Guys and Dolls Book. London: Methuen, 1982. [includes “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown”]

Published Vocal Score: Frank Music Corp., 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953; renewed 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981.

Kiss Me, Kate (1948)

Source: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (c. 1592). [play]

Published Libretto: Great Musicals of the American Theatre Volume One, ed. Stanley Richards (Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, 1973).

Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co., 1951, 1967.

Lady in the Dark (1941)

Source: Original book by Moss Hart.

Published Libretto: Great Musicals of the American Theatre Volume Two, ed. Stanley Richards (Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, 1976).

Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co, 1941.

The Most Happy Fella (1956)

Source: They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925); reprinted in Famous American Plays of the 1930s, selected and