Adolph Green, Betty Comden - On The Town (1995 Studio Cast)
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Artist: Adolph Green, Betty ComdenComposer: Leonard Bernstein
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra
Performer: David Frith
Performer: David Green
Performer: Ethan Freeman
Performer: Gregg Edelman
Performer: Judy Kaye
Performer: Kim Criswell
Performer: Louise Gold
Performer: Matt Zimmerman
Performer: Michael Bauer
Performer: Nicolas Colicos
Performer: Richard Mitchell
Performer: Robert Fardell
Performer: Simon Masterton-Smith
Performer: Tim Flavin
Performer: Tinuke Olafimihan
Performer: Valerie Masterson
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1996-10-29
Music Label: Jay Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Overture
- Opening/New York! New York!
- Miss Turnstiles
- Come up to my place
- Carried away
- Lonely town
- High school girls (Lonely town Pas de deux)
- Lonely town (Choral)
- Carnegie Hall pavane
- I can cook too
- Lucky to be me
- Times Square, Finale Act 1
- Entr'acte
- So long baby
- I wish I was dead (Night club sequence)
- Ya got me
- Slam bang blues
- Pitkin's song
- Subway ride / Imaginary Coney Island
- The Great Lover Displays Himself (Pas de Deux) - Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein, Leonard
- Act Two: Some Other Time - Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein, Leonard
- Act Two: The Real Coney Island - Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein, Leonard
- Act Two: Finale Act II - Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein, Leonard
- Act Two: Exit Music - Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein, Leonard
- Gabey's Coming - Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein, Leonard
- The great lover displays himself (Pas de deux)
- Some other time
- The real Coney Island
- Finale Act 2
- Exit music
- Gabey's coming
Free Music Notes for On The Town (1995 Studio Cast)
Free Music Review: A wonderful Recording of one of the GREAT THEATER SCORES OF ALL TIME
Hit: 5 Stars
On the Town is one of the Great Theater Scores of all times. If you don't know it well then you probably think West Side Story came out of no where from Bernstein's imagination, when nothing could be further from the truth. On the Town is a younger man's musical, told in song and dance almost equally. This great score has been very well served on recordings. Leonard Bernstein went into the studio in 1960 (almost 20 years after the show closed and brought all the important parts of the original cast with him. Nancy Walker, Betty Comden, Adolphe Green, and Cris Alexander recreate their Broadway performances magnificently, and Bernstein conducts as only a composer could. Unfortunately although he recorded the entire score, when it was released, bits and pieces were snip snipped and some have never been found. None the less Bernstein's is a great recording for the ages. Along comes Bernstein protege Michael Tilson Thomas and records the score a little more completely including some music cut, that illuminates some of the dance music and helps us understand where certain dramatic themes came from. Very well cast with Frederica Von Stade and Tyne Daley (yes Tyne Daley) in the Nancy Walker role. The men are equally strong, led by Thomas Hampson. If you never heard Nancy Walker, you would love Tyne Daley. As a matter of fact, I still do love Tyne Daley. Then along comes John Yap and Jay Records to do to On the Town what they usually do, give us a note complete recording, every bar of every dance sequence, including the scene changes. As with most of the best of Jay's recordings, this one gives us the best idea of how the show plays on stage. Then, he gives us a superlative cast, Judy Kaye as Claire de Loone, Kim Criswell as Hildy Esterhazy and equally strong men. I am a huge Kim Criswell fan, and a huge Judy Kaye fan and they do not disappoint. The thing is that each of these On the Town Recordings are strongly cast. I like Kim Criswell best if she is the last one I heard, if not then I like the one I heard last, best. All three people in these roles are teriffic. For me, it really folds out to the conducting. Bernstein conducts like Bernstein conducts, full of wild manic energy but with all the players pulling together. I had the great good fortune to know him and work with him, and most importantly to perform under his baton, and there was no more exciting moment in my life than performing with him. Michael Tilson Thomas is just as driven, maybe even a little more so, it plays out a little more jazzy and a little less classically "Prokofiev". John Owens Edwards is the odd man out. He plays it just a little more romantically and a lot less frantically, but he still completely understands how this score should go. Buy any of these recordings and you will not be sorry. If you are like me and On the Town is one of your favorite theater scores (and how could it not be if you love the Broadway stage), buy 2 now and get the third in 6 months or so.
On The Town (1995 Studio Cast) Poster
With a fluid integration of drama, comedy, jazz, classical and popular ballads, "On the Town" stands as one of the great innovative works in the history of musical theatre.Bringing the recording up-to-date with the best that modern recording has to offer, producer John Yap has used the original orchestrations with a full symphony orchestra and an all-star cast drawn from stage, screen and television - including Kim Criswell, Judy Kaye, Gregg Edelman, Tim Flavin, Ethan Freeman, Valerie Masterson and Tinuke Olafimihan.
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