How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Deluxe Edition) (1961 Original Broadway Cast)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Deluxe Edition) (1961 Original Broadway Cast)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Deluxe Edition) (1961 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Collector's Edition, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
  1. Overture
  2. How To
  3. Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm
  4. Coffee Break
  5. The Company Way
  6. The Company Way (Reprise)
  7. A Secretary Is Not a Toy
  8. Been a Long Day
  9. Grand Old Ivy
  10. Paris Original
  11. Rosemary
  12. Finaletto Act One
  13. Cinderella, Darling
  14. Love from a Heart of Gold
  15. I Believe in You
  16. Brotherhood of Man
  17. Finale
  18. "Dear reader...."
  19. "You have alertly seized your opportunities...."
  20. Been a Long Day (Reprise)
  21. How to Succeed (Reprise)
  22. "So you are now a vice-president..."
  23. "How to handle a disaster..."
  24. "By this time, you are a seasoned exective...."
  25. Organization Man
  26. A Secretary Is Not a Toy
  27. I Believe in You (From "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying")
  28. Brotherhood of Man (From "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying")
  29. Getting the Part
  30. "I Believe in You"
  31. "The Company Way"
  32. The Audition
  33. "Finaletto"
  34. "Coffee Break"

Free Music Notes for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Deluxe Edition) (1961 Original Broadway Cast)

Free Music Review: DEAR READER
Hit: 5 Stars

DEAR READER

You naughty Frank Loesser, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk (vintage typewriter clicks in the orchestra here): with your Jewish, Mid-European blood, wouldn't you have known --immersed deep in Rumyonland all your life-- before having Rosemary Pilkington say:
"Happy to keep his dinner warm till he comes wearily home"
then:
"I'm pregnant; what's new with you from downtown?"
...that these lyrics are so politically incorrect today? Executive suites, three button suits, doing things "The Company Way" are quite OK though: as (the then) Reagan Corps., later Bush Sr., now Cheney's Halliburton plus their henchmen in Eurobond Inc. all reign worldwide supreme; a dead solid Brotherhood of Man! Wait a minute, let's not try getting sincere! (Gotta stop that Frank Loesser cold or he'll still manage to stop the big rocket of political correctness!) It may embarrass Lloyd-Weberites, specially bric-a-brac-bazar-musicals suckers, to hear me say it, but say it I must: "How To Succeed in Business..." was the wondrous follow-up to the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical theatre revolution in the 40s/50s.... and more!

After his "Guys & Dolls" earlier masterpiece, through "Most Lucky Fella" (more 'a show with lots of music' than a Gerwhinesque Folk Opera') Loesser, a great among the finest composer/lyricists, produced his most distilled, hilarious and incisive work, teamed with Abe Burrows and the 'succeeding' choreographer of the day: Bob Fosse. To incarnate lead Pierpont Finch they groomed ex US Navy & Korean War fighter Robert Morse, with his quaint split teeth smirk, not much of a singer (listen to his breathing, the odd out of tune notes) yet, if we watch the movie version of "How To" (among the finest Hollywood Broadway adaptations) --and as a bonus, Tony Richardson's film "The Loved One"-- one can imagine Morse's charisma as the impetuous youth, the cheeky, happy go-lucky, unstoppable crawler from mailroom to the Tony Awards. And there was the awesome casting of vintage silver crooner Rudy Vallee as Biggley, supported by a bunch of fine female belting secretaries led by Bonnie Scott (and boy, belt they did! Just listen to Victoria Martin's high note in "Heart of Gold" if you can bear it.)

In the Deluxe Edition some of the bonus tracks are interesting, others less, like Charles Nelson Reilly's goings on about operatic Finalettos and such, although how right he was in his depiction of the problems he had pitching Coffee Break, then goes into a ridiculously rampant PAPAMPAMPAM!!! confessing: "I had A BAD EAR but I had a lot of spirit"... (good, honest ole' pro!) Loesser singing his demo sketch for "A Secretary is Not A Toy" at the piano is a real treat to listen to and ponder --knowing the final version-- on how any successful show depended on the interaction (and squabbles!) of its various creative collaborators. Also we get a tip of marvelous Walter Conkrite 'Book Reader's voice', which one can find, plus other missing bits, in the 1995 'H2$' New Broadway Cast Album with Mathew Broderick, a great Jeff Blumenkrantz as Frump et al; but, alas, this Clinton-era revival, with pointless new orchestrations and a ridiculous, Gospel-like arrangement of 'Brotherhood of Man' doesn't live up to the real macoy, for... Gentlemen, gentlemen! a good Broadway Masterpiece is NOT a toy, and you find nothing like it in F.A.O Shwartz! (For a real Xtra bonus, have a listen to Bobby Darin's "I Believe In You", LOL! the veritable Narcissus-swing-hit-song rendered by the very one!)

So, dear reader, you have alertly seized your opportunity to revisit or get to know this Original Cast Album of one of the best shows of the early 1960s just before its grand sloping period. Let's have a coffee on it, for it's been a long day; decades... I should say, of devastation. What? No COFFEE? No tunes? No wit? No art? No stars? Nothing remotely original? Why weren't Sondheim's greats rightly produced?

Ooooooh.... something within me dies!

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