1600 Pennsylvania Avenue original production?

If anyone saw the original production of this (sadly essentially lost) Bernstein musical, I'd love to know more about what it was like. I've heard two different bootlegs and the music is incredible but, as with audio bootlegs, things get lost (what was going on during the President Jefferson March? The audience seemed to be having a wonderful time). Anyone see the brief revival in the 90s? This show is wonderful, it's too bad the chances of it being brought back are slim to none (maybe it could ride on Hamiltonmania).

I did but I was young and impressionable back then. Maybe that is why I enjoyed it. Have the CD of it that surfaced years later under a different name. I honestly never listened to it.

I thought the score was eventually recorded? they changed the title to "A White House Cantata."

That is the name of the cd

Thanks, Jarethan!  

Duet For One

Yeah, sadly I've never been able to find many photos either. I've heard two bootlegs, one from, I think, opening night, which is plagued with technical problems, which you can find on Youtube, and another from a later performance that goes smoothly. Routledge gets a well-deserved one-minute standing ovation for Duet For One in that.

 

I like the concept but they really hamstrung themselves by focusing on the first 100 years of the White House, and also by spending so much time on the Adamses, who are interesting enough to carry an entire show. The music is just so gosh-darn good.

 

gypsy101 said: "I thought the score was eventually recorded? they changed the title to "A White House Cantata."

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That's the sort of abridged version the Bernstein estate put together, though I find it kind of lifeless and floaty - very operatic, which kinda sucks the life out of the music.