Christine (1960 Original Broadway Cast)

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Free Music Review: Ovelooked Musical - Maureen O'Hara a Revalation
Hit: 5 Stars

There is one song that should have become a Broadway standard - "My Little Lost Girl". This showcases Miss O'Hara's voice and acting excellently as she sings of her departed daughter. It is a wonderful, heart touching song.

The story concerns an Irish woman who comes to India to visit her daughter. To her dismay, she learns that her daughter has died in childbirth. She has to stay in the small Indian town for a while waiting for a train so she can return home. During this time she falls in love with the doctor who had been her duaghter's husband. The narrative goes on to a bittersweet conclusion when she realizes that, because of their cultural differences, she can not stay with the doctor and does return to Ireland.

This story was probably a little too serious for Broadway at that time. There were book problems before it opened when Pearl S. Buck's writing was mostly hurridly replaced to make the opening date. However, whatever the book problems, the score by Academy Award winning Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster is excellent. Listening to the recording with delightful songs and the incomparable Maureen O'Hara, you wonder how the show could have failed. It is not a great score, but certainly enjoyable. Could it be a case that the score and Miss O'Hara were the best things about the show?

It is wonderful to have this overlooked score now available on CD for the first time. A recommendation is to get a copy before it goes out of print again.

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