The Cradle Will Rock: Original 1985 Cast Recording
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Composer: Marc BlitzsteinPerformer: John Houseman
Performer: Patti LuPone
Performer: Michael Barrett
Performer: Michele-Denise Woods
Performer: Casey Biggs
Performer: Brooks Baldwin
Performer: Leslie Geraci
Performer: Mary Lou Rosato
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1999-05-04
Music Label: Jay Records
Soundtracks:
- Moll's Song [Scene One]
- Moll and Gent
- I'll Show You Guys
- Richard Speaking
- Come to the Rescue [Scene Two]
- Solicitin'
- Hey Virgil
- Oh What a Filthy Night Court
- Hard Times [Scene Three]
- Order in the Court Room
- Croon Spoon [Scene Four]
- The Freedom of the Press - Original Cast Recording, Blitzstein, Marc
- Let's Do Something - Original Cast Recording, Blitzstein, Marc
- Honolulu - Original Cast Recording, Blitzstein, Marc
- Summer Weather
- Dialouge
- Love Duet - Original Cast Recording, Blitzstein, Marc
- Don't Let Me Keep You [Scene Six]
- Ask Us Again
- Art for Art's Sake - Original Cast Recording, Blitzstein, Marc
- the Nickel Under Your Foot [Scene Seven]
- Which of You Guys?
- The Cradle Will Rock
- The Cradle Will Rock [Speech]
- Facult Room [Scene Eight]
- It's Not Going to Hurt [Scene Nine]
- Ella's Enterance
- Joe Worker
- Final Scene [Scene Ten]
Free Music Notes for The Cradle Will Rock: Original 1985 Cast Recording
Free Music Review: History Professor on Blitzstein and the Rise of Populous infused Music
Hit: 5 Stars
I absolutely recommend this beautifully recorded, and championed piece of music. This said I heartily sway anyone who is contemplating Blitzstein to also consider Bertholt Brecht, composer, songwriter, and storyteller behind THE THREE PENNY OPERA. It is important to state that Brecht's piece is easily considered one of the first pieces of Populous inspired music, and this rise of a proletariat form of entertainment inspired Blitzstein.
This said, if you are into catch numbers, cutsie stories, and any rubbish that is considered "popular" musical theatre, then I strongly recommend you run away quickly, and take "dramadude's" advise and watch the painfully sexist and racially motivate THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, or say, any of a dozen Hollywood film recently converted into Broadway. I believe I even saw a billboard in Boston recently that advertised FOOTLOOSE ON ICE at the Schubert, so that might be of interest.
However, if you like RENT, URINETOWN, LES MISERABLES, Sondheim or any number of names dropped in RENT's own anthem LA VIE BOHEME, then you will enjoy THE CRADLE WILL ROCK.
So here's the liner note: Imagine, say, if every news pundit, or media junky who supported the president were all thrown into the slammer, and forced to see the people the assail, or in our case ignore, face to face. In the case of THE CRADLE WILL ROCK that is the situation. A handful of corporate lackeys (ie. artists, ministers, journalists, doctors, strikejumpers) are force into jail. They trust their boss, Mister Mister, will release them. He never comes.
They judge the other inmates. One is a whore, so they treat her and her cellmates as whores. By the end, however, you will discover, as do the characters, that because of their association with Mister Mister they are the whores.
In the end at a time of post Wilson WWI surveilance, the birth of the FBI, and the early attempts by Conservatives to overturn the changes of the Progressive era, Blitzstein, sounding an awful lot like HENRY DAVID THOREAU, teaches that if our leaders are wrong then we have a right to CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. This musical, the first of its kind in American History, in its day was cause to take to the streets. It makes one question... what do motivations do we have to do the same?
So buy this, and while your at it... buy Brecht, then ask as you listen to them these questions: 1) why were they both banned at one point. 2) Why is CRADLE still impossible to buy a script for under $200.00 3) Why are American versions of both subsequently abridged.
(On a sidenote, Sondheim refers to CRADLE WILL ROCK as his impetus.)
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