The Nervous Set (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2002-02-26
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Overture/Man, We're Beat
- New York
- What's To Lose/Stars Have Blown My Way
- Fun Life
- How Do You Like Your Love?
- Party Song
- Night People
- Overture - Act II
- Party Song (Reprise)
- I've Got A Lot To Learn About Life
- The Ballad Of The Sad Young Man
- A Country Gentleman
- Max The Millionaire
- Travel The Road Of Love
- Laugh, I THought I'd Die
- Fun Life (Reprise)
- Bonus Track 1: Fun Life (By Jackie Cain & Roy Kral)
Free Music Notes for The Nervous Set (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: One of the oddest OC albums I've encountered
Hit: 3 Stars
It's fascinating to discover what passed for sophisticated in 1959 as the musical sought new forms. This album is a cultural landmark, of sorts -- a show that broke a lot of barriers and paid for it with a short run. The songs have the feeling of Nichols and May improvisations. Certainly it's worth picking up for people who want complete OC collections, especially since it wasn't available in vinyl in the 1970s except for lots of cash at out-of-print record shops in Manhattan (remember them?). And you can't pass up Larry Hagman singing. Still, the score simply doesn't match up to the evident aspirations of the writers; it anticipates "Company," but Sondheim's songs are so much better than the ones here. Still, there are a couple of gems, including "Night People" and "A Country Gentleman."
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As fans of musical theater, we're used to offbeat projects, but this long-forgotten show takes the cake--and it's completely entrancing. The opening number alone makes nasty fun of the then-popular beatniks and is immediately followed by "New York," a list song enumerating all the awful things about the city. Rarely has so much bile been spilled on the New York stage--but perhaps that's because the show originated in St. Louis. Tommy Wolf's finger-snapping score and Fran Landesman's biting lyrics are very compelling, especially because it's hard to tell when they're serious and when they're drily sarcastic. The energetic cast, which includes Larry Hagman (best known as JR in Dallas), is backed by a jazz quartet, and the result often sounds strangely contemporary. And then you have some numbers, such as "Night People," that are almost Sondheimian. What a strange, wonderful little show this is. --Elisabeth VincentelliBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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