FILM (Warner Bros. 1964): Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel. Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner. Produced by Jack L. Warner. Directed by George Cukor. Choreography by Hermes Pan. [170 minutes]
On Your Toes
Original cast, revival cast, composer, studio cast (1936–1954).*
Original revival cast (1954): Vera Zorina, Bobby Van, Elaine Stritch, Ben Astar, Kay Coulter, Joshua Shelley, Nicholas Orloff, Jack Williams, George Church, Salvatore Dell’Isola (conductor). Decca DL 9015; reissued on Stet DS 15024. Missing: “La Princesse Zenobia Ballet.”
Original revival cast (1983): Lara Teeter, George S. Irving, Dina Merrill, George De La Pena, Christine Andreas, John Mauceri (conductor). Polydor 813667–1 Y 1.
FILM (Warner Bros. 1939): Cast: Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert. Musical numbers: “Princesse Zenobia” (ballet), “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” (ballet). [93 minutes]
One Touch of Venus
Composer (1943): Tryout: A Series of Private Rehearsal Recordings—Including Actual Performances by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin. DRG 904 (CD). Contents: “West Wind,” “Very Very Very,” “Wooden Wedding,” “Speak Low,” “The Jersey Plunk” (“Way Out West in Jersey”), “The Trouble with Women” (quartet), and “That’s Him.”
Original cast (1943): Mary Martin, Kenny Baker, Maurice Abravanel (conductor). Decca DL 79122; reissued on AEI 1136; reissued on Time-Life P 16374, set STL AM10 with Lady in the Dark and The Threepenny Opera (set title, Kurt Weill). Contents: “I’m a Stranger Here Myself,” “Forty Minutes for Lunch (ballet),” “Speak Low,” “West Wind,” “Foolish Heart,” “The Trouble with Women,” “That’s Him,” “Wooden Wedding,” and “Venus in Ozone Heights (ballet).”
Studio cast (mainly): Ben Bagley’s Kurt Weill Revisited. Paula Lawrence (original cast), Arthur Siegel, Chita Rivera, Jo Sullivan. Painted Smiles PS 1375; reissued 1989 on Painted Smiles PSCD 108. Contents: “One Touch of Venus,” “How Much I Love You,” “Dr. Crippen,” “Very, Very, Very,” “Vive la différence” (cut), and “Love in a Mist” (cut).
FILM (Republic Pictures 1948): Cast: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner (dubbed by Eileen Wilson), Olga San Juan, Eve Arden. Produced and directed by William A. Seiter. Songs: “Speak Low,” “That’s Him,” “Foolish Heart” (retitled “Don’t Look Now but My Heart Is Showing”). [82 minutes]
Pal Joey
Original cast, revival cast, and studio cast (1950): Vivienne Segal, Harold Lang, Barbara Ashley, Beverly Fite, Kenneth Remo, Jo Hurt, Lehman Engel (conductor) (1940s lyrics and orchestrations). Columbia ML 54364; reissued on Columbia Special Products COL 4364. Missing: “Chicago” and “The Flower Garden of My Heart.”
Original revival cast, studio cast (1952): Helen Gallagher, Patricia Northrop, Elaine Stritch, Lewis Bolyard, Jane Froman, Dick Beavers, Max Meth (conductor) (1952 lyrics and orchestrations). Missing: Ballet (“Chez Joey”). Angel ZDM 0777–7-646962–2-1.
Film cast (1957): Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth (sung by Jo Ann Greer), Kim Novak (sung by Trudi Erwin), Morris Stoloff (conductor). Songs (from Pal Joey): “Zip,” “Chicago,” “That Terrific Rainbow,” “Pal Joey,” and “Bewitched.” Songs interpolated from other Rodgers and Hart shows: “There’s a Small Hotel” (On Your Toes, 1936), “My Funny Valentine” and “The Lady Is a Tramp” (Babes In Arms, 1937), and “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” (Too Many Girls,” 939). Capitol W-912.
Encore! Concert Cast (1995): Patti Lupone, Peter Gallagher, Bebe Neuwirth, Rob Fisher (conductor). DRG 94763. With original orchestrations by Hans Spialek. Restored song: “I’m Talkin’ to My Pal.”
FILM (Columbia 1957): Cast: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak. Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley. Produced by Fred Kohlmar. Directed by George Sidney. Choreography by Hermes Pan. Songs (from Pal Joey): “Zip,” “Chicago,” “That Terrific Rainbow,” “Pal Joey,” and “Bewitched.” Songs interpolated from other Rodgers and Hart shows: “There’s a Small Hotel” (On Your Toes, 1936), “My Funny Valentine” and “The Lady Is a Tramp” (Babes In Arms, 1937), and “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” (Too Many Girls,” 1939). RCA/Columbia Classics [listed time 109 minutes; actual time app. 87 minutes]
The Phantom of the Opera
Original London cast (1986): Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Steven Barton, Michael Reed (conductor). Polydor 831 273–2 Y-2.
FILM (Warner Bros. 2004): Cast: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Simon Callow, Ciarán Hinds, Jennifer Ellison. Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher. Produced by Lloyd Webber. Directed by Schumacher. Added song: “Learn to Be Lonely” [143 minutes]
Porgy and Bess
Original cast (1935): Gershwin Performs Gershwin Rare Recordings 1931–1935. Musicmasters 5062–2 C (CD). Porgy and Bess rehearsal performance, July 19, 1935, conducted by Gershwin. Contents: “Introduction,” “Summertime” (Abbie Mitchell), “A Woman Is a Sometime Thing” (Edward Matthews), Act I, scene 1: Finale, “My Man’s Gone Now” (Ruby Elzy), and “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” (Todd Duncan, Anne Brown).
Studio cast (1936): George Gershwin Plays George Gershwin. Pearl Gemm CDS 9483 (CD). Lawrence Tibbett, Helen Jepson, Alexander Smallens (conductor). Selections from Porgy and Bess, November 1935 (originally issued on Victor 11878/81). Contents: “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “The Buzzard Song,” “Scene: Summertime/ Crapgame/A Woman Is a Sometime Thing,” “Bess, You Is My Woman Now,” “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin,’” “Where Is My Bess?,” “Summertime,” and “My Man’s Gone Now.” Lawrence Tibbett’s “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’” (October 23, 1935) appears on Showstoppers: Historic Victor Recordings. BMG 9590–2 R (CD).
Original cast (1940–1942): Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, Edward Matthews, Eva Jessye Choir, Alexander Smallens (conductor). Decca DL 9024; reissued on MCA 2035. Fourteen selections.*
Studio cast (1951): Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams, Inez Matthews, Warren Coleman, Avon Long, J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel (conductor). Columbia OSL 163; reissued on Odyssey 32 36 0018 (nearly complete on three LPs).
Jazz recording (1957): Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong. Verve VE 2–2507.
Jazz recording (1958): Miles Davis, Gil Evans. Columbia PC 8085.
Film cast (1959): Cab Calloway (replacing the film’s Sammy Davis Jr. for contractual reasons), Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, André Previn (conductor). Columbia OS 2016.
Studio cast (1963): Leontyne Price, William Warfield, McHenry Boatwright, John Bubbles, Skitch Henderson (conductor). RCA LSC 2679. Twelve selections.
Studio cast (1976): Willard White, Leona Mitchell, McHenry Boatwright, Florence Quivar, Barbara Hendricks, Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, Lorin Maazel (conductor). London OSA 13116.
Opera production (1977): Clamma Dale, Donnie Ray Albert, Larry Marshall, Houston Opera Company. John DeMain (conductor). RCA ARL 3–2109.
Opera production (1989): Cynthia Haymon, Willard White, Damon Evans, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Simon Rattle (conductor). EMI/Angel CDCC 49568.
FILM (Samuel Goldwyn film released by Columbia 1959): Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll. Screenplay by N. Richard Nash. Directed by Otto Preminger. Choreography by Hermes Pan. Deleted?: “My Man’s Gone Now” (included on the soundtrack but not in the film copy available to me). [listed at 139 minutes; actual time of film copy available to me app. 115 minutes]
FILM (EMI Classics 1993): Cast: Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Gregg Baker, Cynthia Clarey, Marietta Simpson, Damon Evans, Paula Ingram (sung by Harolyn Blackwell), Gordon Hawkins (sung by Bruce Hubbard). Produced by Richard Price (Primetime) and Dennis Marks (BBC). Adapted for the screen and directed by Trevor Nunn. Simon Rattle (conductor). [184 minutes]
Show Boat
Original London cast (1928): “Make Believe” (Edith Day and Howett Worster), “Ol’ Man River” (Paul Robeson), “Ol’ Man River” (Jules (Bledsoe), “Can’t Help L
ovin’ Dat Man” (Marie Burke), “You Are Love” (Day and Worster), “Why Do I Love You?” (Day and Worster), “Bill” (Marie Burke), and “Dance Away the Night” (Day). Pearl Gemm CD 9105.
Original London cast (1928): Showstoppers: Historic Victor Recordings. BMG 9590–2 R (CD). Contents: “Ol’ Man River” (Paul Robeson, March 1, 1928) and “Bill” (Helen Morgan, February 14, 1928).†
Original revival cast (1932): “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” and “Bill” (Helen Morgan), “Ol’ Man River” (Paul Robeson), “Make Believe” (James Melton), “You Are Love” (Countess Olga Albani and Frank Munn). Victor Young (conductor). Columbia-CBS/ASV-Living Era.
Original revival cast (1946): Jan Clayton, Carol Bruce, Charles Fredericks, Kenneth Spencer, Helen Dowdy, Edwin McArthur (conductor).‡
Film cast (1951): Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, William Warfield, Marge and Gower Champion, Ava Gardner, Adolph Deutsch (conductor). MGM E 3230.
Original Lincoln Center revival cast (1966): Barbara Cook, Constance Towers, Stephen Douglass, David Wayne, William Warfield, Franz Allers (conductor). RCA LSO 1126.
London cast (1971): Cleo Laine, Thomas Carey, Lorna Dalla, Kenneth Nelson, Andrew Jobin, Ena Cabayo, Ray Cook (conductor). Stanyon Records 10048 (two LPs).
Studio cast (1988): Frederika von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Jerry Hadley, Paige O’Hara, David Garrison, Bruce Hubbard, John McGlinn (conductor). EMI/Angel CDS 7–49108–2.
Revival cast (1994): Rebecca Luker, Lonette McKee, Mark Jacoby, Elaine Stritch, Michel Bell, Gretha Boston, Robert Morse, Jeffrey Huard (conductor). Quality 257.
“The Ultimate ‘Showboat’” (1999): Contains the Original Revival Cast (1932) [eight songs], the Original Revival Cast (1946), and other historic and novelty Show Boat recordings.
FILM (Universal 1929): Cast: Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan. Produced by Carl Laemmle. Directed by Harry A. Pollard. Songs (from Show Boat): “Ol’ Man River,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man.” [146 minutes with prologue; 129 minutes without prologue]
FILM (Universal 1936): Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley, Hattie McDaniel, Queenie Smith, Sammy White. Screenplay by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. Directed by James Whale. Deleted songs: New songs: “I Have the Room above Her,” “Gallivantin’ Around,” “Ah Still Suits Me.”[113 minutes]
FILM (MGM 1951): Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion, Robert Sterling, Agnes Moorehead, Leif Erickson, William Warfield. Screenplay by John Lee Mahin. Produced by Arthur Freed. Directed by George Sidney. Songs: “Cotton Blossom,” “Where’s the Mate for Me?,” “Make Believe,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” “I Might Fall Back on You,” “Ol’ Man River,” “You Are Love,” “Why Do I Love You?,” “Bill,” “After the Ball.” [108 minutes]
Sunday in the Park with George
Original cast (1984): Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Charles Kimbrough, Barbara Bryne, Dana Ivey, Paul Gemignani (conductor). RCA HBC1–5042.
FILM (Brandman Productions, 1986): Cast: Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Charles Kimbrough, Barbara Bryne, Dana Ivey. Produced by Iris Merlis. Directed for the Broadway stage by James Lapine; directed for television by Terry Hughes. Paul Gemignani (conducter). [146 minutes]
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Original Cast (1979): Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Sarah Rice, Edmund Lyndeck, Paul Gemignani (conductor). RCA 3379–2-RC.
Film cast (2007): Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen. Paul Gemignani (conductor). None-such 368572–2.
FILM (Warner Bros. 1982): Cast: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn. Produced by Bonnie Burns. Directed for the stage by Harold Prince; directed for television by Terry Hughes. [139 minutes]
Film cast (DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures 2007): Screenplay by John Logan. Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Logan. Directed by Tim Burton. Deleted songs: “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” (underscoring only), “Ah, Miss,” “Johanna” (Judge’s version), “God, That’s Good!” (nearly all), “The Letter,” “Parlor Songs,” “City on Fire!” (from Final Sequence). [116 minutes]
West Side Story
Original cast (1957): Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Chita Rivera, Max Goberman (conductor). Columbia OL 5230; reissued on Columbia S 32603. Missing: “Taunting.”
Film cast (1961): Natalie Wood (sung by Marni Nixon), Richard Beymer (sung by Jim Bryant), Rita Moreno (sung by Betty Wand), Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, John Green (conductor). Columbia OS 2070; reissued with previously unreleased masters on Sony SK 48211 (1992).
Studio cast (1985): Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Kurt Ollmann, Tatiana Troyanos, Leonard Bernstein (conductor). Deutsche Grammophon 415253–1/4.
Revival cast (2009): Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione, Karen Olivo, Patrick Vaccariello (conductor). Sony Masterworks 752391.
FILM (Mirisch/United Artists 1961): Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris. Screenplay by Ernest Lehman. Produced by Robert Wise. Directed by Wise and Jerome Robbins. Choreography by Robbins. [152 minutes]
* By the late 1980s all shows were issued in compact disc (the numbers given in this Discography) or tape formats. Many older long-playing cast recordings have also been reissued on CDs in recent years.
† Throughout, no attempt is made to honor the distinctions between conductor, musical director, or musical supervisor. The term “conductor” is used exclusively.
* See Hummel, vol. 1, 32.
* See Hummel, vol. 1, 430.
* See Hummel, vol. 1,462.
† See Hummel, vol. 1, 520–21 for a comprehensive listing of original Broadway and London cast excerpts between 1928 and 1936.
‡ Ibid., 522.
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Sources, Published Librettos, and Vocal Scores
Anything Goes (1934)
Source: Original book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.
Published Libretto: None (rentals of Off-Broadway 1962 and Beaumont Version 1987 rental available from Tams-Witmark Music Library).
Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co., and Harms (Broadway 1934); Vocal Selections Revival Edition, Warner Bros., 1988 (Broadway 1987).
Carousel (1945)
Source: Liliom (1921) by Ferenc Molnár (as adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer) (New York: Samuel French, 1945). [play]
Published Libretto: Six Plays by Rodgers and Hammerstein (New York: Modern Library Association, 1959).
Published Vocal Score: Williamson Music Co., 1945.
The Cradle Will Rock (1937)
Source: Original book by Marc Blitzstein.
Published Libretto: The Cradle Will Rock (New York: Random House, 1938); reprinted in The Best Short Plays of the Social Theatre, ed. William Kozlenko (New York: Random House, 1939).
Published Vocal Score: None (rental available from Tams-Witmark Music Library).
Guys and Dolls (1950)
Source: “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown” and “Pick the Winner” by Damon Runyon. Guys and Dolls. Philadelphia: (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1931). [short stories]
Published Libretto: The Guys and Dolls Book. London: Methuen, 1982. [includes “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown”]
Published Vocal Score: Frank Music Corp., 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953; renewed 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981.
Kiss Me, Kate (1948)
Source: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (c. 1592). [play]
Published Libretto: Great Musicals of the American Theatre Volume One, ed. Stanley Richards (Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, 1973).
Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co., 1951, 1967.
Lady in the Dark (1941)
Source: Original book by Moss Hart.
Published Libretto: Great Musicals of the American Theatre Volume Two, ed. Stanley R
ichards (Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Company, 1976).
Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co, 1941.
The Most Happy Fella (1956)
Source: They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925); reprinted in Famous American Plays of the 1930s, selected and introduced by Harold Curman (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1959). [play]
Published Libretto: Frank Music Corp., 1956, 1957 [included with the Vocal Score]; reprinted in Theatre Arts October 1958), 26–53.
Published Vocal Score: Frank Music Corp., 1956, 1957.
My Fair Lady (1956)
Source: Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw; reprinted in Pygmalion/My Fair Lady (New York: Signet, 1975). [play]. See also published Libretto.
Published Libretto: Pygmalion/My Fair Lady (New York: Signet, 1975).
Published Vocal Score: Chappell & Co., 1956.
On Your Toes (1936)
Source: Original book by Rodgers and Hart and George Abbott.
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