Follies (Highlights from the 1971 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1992-11-17
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
- Prologue: Beautiful Girls
- Don't Look At Me
- Waiting For The Girls Upstairs
- Ah! Paris/Broadway Baby
- The Road You Didn't Take
- In Buddy's Eyes
- Who's That Woman?
- I'm Still Here
- Too Many Mornings
- The Right Girl
- One More Kiss
- Could I Leave You?
- You're Gonna Love Tomorow/Love Will See Us Through
- The God Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues
- Losong My Mind
- The Story Of Lucy & Jessie
- Live, Laugh & Love/Finale
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Free Music Review: Incredible
Hit: 5 Stars
Sondheim produces music that I can never get out of my head. I don't always catch onto the tunes and rhythms right away, but with time they become embedded in my mind. "Follies" is one of my favorites and sadly, one of the Sondheim plays I'm dying to see but think I have no chance. Too bad, because I'd love to see these songs come to life on the stage.
My only real complaint is that since the original ambitious plans for a gatefold, vinyl double album were jettisoned for a smaller production, the ending especially feels cut off. Maybe the original didn't end with a big fluorish and refrain of "Beautiful Girls" but I can't imagine that being true. Despite being recorded in 1971, this cast album is lush and sounds more organic than other recordings of the same show. Excellent.
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The scene: an abandoned theater, where a group of performers--alumni from the fictional musical revue The Weismann Follies--is holding a reunion shortly before the building is to be turned to rubble. The long-retired players relive their careers through Stephen Sondheim's brilliant pastiches of past songwriters, sometimes accompanied in song or dance by the ghosts of their previous selves. At the same time, four of the people (two married couples) are remembering their pasts and wondering whether they chose their spouses--and the course of their lives--correctly. The 1971 original cast of Follies included many former Broadway and Hollywood stars--Dorothy Collins, Gene Nelson, Alexis Smith, Mary McCarty--and the pedigree and sheer size of the cast kept the show from profitability despite a decent run (and also keep it from being frequently revived).This recording of Stephen Sondheim's legendary show has become something of a legend itself. The score included 22 songs, but because the cost of recording a two-LP set was considered prohibitive, a number of songs were omitted and others were abridged. As a result, this too-brief 58 minutes can't be considered the final statement on Follies (for more music, try the uneven but sometimes electric 1985 concert recording or the 1998 New Jersey revival), but listen to Yvonne DeCarlo sing the anthem "I'm Still Here" or Collins sing the heartbreaking "Losing My Mind" and you'll know that the original cast had a special magic that has yet to be surpassed. --David Horiuchi
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