Do Re Mi: The New Musical (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1994-05-10
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Overture - Orchestra/Lehman Engel
- Waiting, Waiting - Nancy Walker
- All You Need Is A Quarter - Chorus
- Take A Job - Phil Silvers/Nancy Walker
- It's Legitimate - Phil Silvers/George Mathews/David Burns/George Givot/Chorus
- I Know About Love - John Reardon
- Cry Like The Wind - Nancy Dussault
- Ambition - Phil Silvers/Nancy Dussault
- Fireworks - John Reardon/Nancy Dussault
- What's New At The Zoo - Nancy Dussault/Chorus
- Asking For You - John Reardon
- The Late, Late Show - Phil Silvers
- Adventure - Phil Silvers/Nancy Walker
- Make Someone Happy - John Reardon
- All Of My Life - Phil Silvers
- Finale - Entire Company
Free Music Notes for Do Re Mi: The New Musical (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: STELLAR PERFORMANCES CARRY A LESS-THAN-WONDERFUL SHOW . . . . .
Hit: 5 Stars
Although DO RE MI was not top drawer Jule Styne (music), Garson Kanin (book), or Comden & Green (lyrics). it managed a modest Broadway run (400 performances). Headlining the cast were the incomparable Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, comic actor/singers par-excellence. Walker, perhaps best-known as Rhoda's mother on TV, shines in "Waiting, Waiting" and "Take a Job." Silvers (TV's Sgt. Bilko) was not new to playing a con man (1947's HIGH BUTTON SHOES, also with music by Jule Styne) and here lends his considerable comedic talent to "It's Legitimate" and "The Late, Late Show," and the two leads make a minor classic out of "Ambition." Incidentally, Mr. Silvers will absolutely break your heart with the show's closing number, "All of My Life." Both leads were nominated for Best Actor Tonys, but lost to Richard Burton (CAMELOT) and Elizabeth Seal (IRMA LA DOUCE).
The show is further blessed with the gorgeous singing of John Reardon and Nancy Dussault. 1961 Theatre World Award Winner & Tony nominee (she lost to Tammy Grimes for MOLLY BROWN), Dussault delivers a stunning "Cry Like the Wind" and gets to act silly with "What's New at the Zoo," while Reardon's awesome baritone carries the best ballads of the show, "I Know About Love" and the major hit "Make Someone Happy." (Remember Jimmy Durante's version from "Sleepless in Seattle"?) Reardon and Dussault produce real fireworks to "Fireworks." David Burns (HELLO, DOLLY's Horace Vandergelder) appears as on of Silvers' shady associates.
Besides the antics of it's infamous producer (David Merrick), what kept DO RE MI from becoming a smash was it's thin plot, ". . . adapted by Mr. Kanin from his own novella. It's about a would be big shot named Hubie Cram who can't get a decent table in the better New York restaurants. He is a wheeler dealer who just can't make the big time. As his wife Kay says, they have 400 hula hoops in their garage and the phase has already passed. This time Hubie has acquired 300 jukeboxes. . . . Hubie needs $[...] to start so he brings in three retired shot machine mobsters to muscle in the jukebox racket." (Richard Connema, talkinbroadway.com)
Long out of print, the Original Broadway cast recording is now available from ArkivMusic as an ArkivSong CD-on-Demand, complete with original art work and liner notes. (Although everyone in the 1999 City Center Encores! recording does his/her best, and the booklet even includes an Al Hirschfeld drawing of the 1960 original cast, it really pales by comparison to the original. Just compare the anemic orchestrations to the sound Lehman Engel gets from his pit band.) If you can only have one recording, stick with the original.
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