Hazel Flagg (1953 Original Broadway Cast)
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Composer: Jule StyneComposer: Bob Hilliard
Performer: Helen Gallagher
Performer: Thomas Mitchell
Performer: Benay Venuta
Performer: John Howard
Performer: Jack Whiting
Performer: Dean Campbell
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-09-27
Music Label: SEPIA RECORDINGS
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- A Little More Heart
- The World Is Beautiful Today
- The Rutland Bounce
- I'm Glad I'm Leaving
- Hello, Hazel
- Every Street's A Boulevard In Old New York
- How Do You Speak To An Angel?
- Autograph Chant
- I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever
- You're Gonna Dance With Me, Willie
- Who Is The Bravest?
- Salomee
- Everybody Loves To Take A Bow
- Laura De Maupassant
- Finale
- How Do You Speak To An Angel? (Bonus Track) [*]
- I Feel Like I/m Gonna Live Forever (Bonus Track) [*]
- Salomee (With Her Seven Veils) (Bonus Track) [*]
- I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever (Bonus Track) [*]
- Hello My Baby [*]
- When Frances Dances With Me [*]
- Waltz me around again, Willie [*]
- Come Josephine In My Flying Machine [*]
- Rings On My Fingers [*]
- After the Ball for voice & piano [*]
Free Music Notes for Hazel Flagg (1953 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: NOT A GREAT SHOW, BUT FUN, NONETHELESS . . . .
Hit: 3 Stars
HAZEL FLAGG is a curious animal. The show, ' . . . a satire on the manipulation of people, especially the general public," is based on Ben Hecht's screenplay for the 1937 Carole Lombard/Frederick March vehicle, "Nothing Sacred," itself based on a story by James Street. Hecht is also responsible for the musical's book, with lyrics by Bob Hilliard. Jule Styne, fresh from the success of HIGH BUTTON SHOES and GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, not only wrote the music but acted as the show's producer as well.
HAZEL's disappointing 190 performances (compared to over 700 for each of the previous shows) can be blamed on that old Broadway bugaboo: bad book. "The show did lose something in its transformation to a musical. The songs and dances tended to drag what was originally a fast moving story and, as many other show writers have found, satire is something that rarely works as a musical. Ben Hecht, who was successful as a playwright, was not at ease with a libretto and the inexperienced producer should have recognised this and brought in help. Even so, Jule Styne's score, whilst not quite top notch Styne, does include the enchanting 'How Do You Speak to an Angel?' and the popular 'Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York." (from the liner notes by Rexton S. Bunnett)
Marc Miller, writing in "The TheaterMania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings," says HAZEL FLAGG was " . . . intended as Helen Gallagher's stepping-stone to stardom in the title role of a Vermont lass who's thought to be dying of radium poisoning and is transported to New York by EVERYWHERE magazine for a supposed last fling. (Guess what happens to her prognosis.) Gallagher works very hard here, and her contralto belt is strong and secure. She's supported by such Broadway reliables as Benay Venuta, Jack Whiting, . . . and Thomas Mitchell (who doesn't sing a note but took home a Best Musical Tony anyway). . . . the show does sport amusingly elaborate vocal arrangements by Hugh Martin."
The score is not nearly as dull as Mr. Miller would like us to believe. In addition to "Angel" and "Every Street," the score includes "I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever," "You're Gonna Dance with Me, Willie," and the rather bizarre "Laura de Maupassant," all delivered in fine style by Ms. Gallagher. And "Salomee," here sung by Dean Campbell, became a minor hit for Dinah Shore.
The CD is blessed with a bunch of fun bonus tracks: a young, in-wonderful-voiced Eddie Fisher singing "How Do You Speak to an Angel?", Dinah Shore's recording of "Salomee," Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians performing "I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever," and six tracks by Ms. Venuta, including "When Frances Dances with Me" and "Waltz Me Around Again, Willie" ("Willie Fitzgibbons who used to sell ribbons/and stood up all day on his feet/Grew very spooney on Madeline Mooney,/Who'd rather be dancing than eat./Each evening she'd tag him, to some dance hall drag him,/And when the band started to play,/She'd up like a silly and grab tired Willie,/Steer him on the floor and she'd say,/Waltz me around again, Willie . . . " What fun. The bonus songs alone are worth the price of admission.
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