Anyone Can Whistle (1964 Original Broadway Cast)
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Music CD Cover Edition: Music CD Format: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack CD Release Date: 2003-05-13 Music Label: Sony Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Anyone Can Whistle (1964 Original Broadway Cast) Album
Free Music Review: Gone but never forgotten
Hit: 4 Stars
Goddard Lieberson was a genius! He knew how to translate this complex score to records and still make a listenable package! In fact when it came to recording flops it seems he took even greater care.It's easy to see why WHISTLE failed in 1964. It was totally out-of-step with the other hit musicals: HELLO DOLLY!, FUNNY GIRL, etc. Not that it was in any way inferior to these shows...quite the opposite. It was, if anything, too intelligent, and the score too complicated. That is why the recording stands up to repeated listenings. Still you can imagine your average middle-aged, middle class theatre going going out for intermission after the amazing song/scene "Simple" totally baffled! If they came back for Act Two (doubtful) they certainly did not hang around for Act Three. Yet they would have missed one of Sondheim's most beautiful songs: "With So Little To Be Sure Of."
There's more gold in ths score: The title song is well know, but Lansbury's three solo's are wonderful especially "A Parade in Town." And the comic "Come Play Wiz Me" is great fun...though it sounds similar to the old Peter Sellers-Sophia Loren single "Goodness Gracious Me." Did Sondheim take his inspiration from that old comedy song or was it the other way around? No matter..both are fun!
Then there are the extended musical scenes: "Simple", "The Miracle Song" and the ballet "The Cookie Chase."
One person has wondered why "There's Always a Woman" was not recorded. The answer is simple: the song was dropped from the show long before opening night (although it was restored for the 1995 concert.) Lee Remick's "There Won't Be Trumpets" was also cut just before opening night. That it was recorded at all is a miracle. (The track did not make the original LP release, but is included on this CD.)
As always, Sony has done a wonerdful remastering job. Sondheim's many fans will want to hear the composer's demo recordings of some of the dropped songs, but the key reason to get this Cd is the still wonderful original cast performances. True, none of the leads have truly outstanding singing voices, but they are so loaded with character that it hardly matters.
Ther has always been talk of revising and reviving ANYONE CAN WHISTLE and when you listen to this cast album you'll understand why.