"Cyrano" with Christopher Plummer

I not only have the recording, but I saw this CYRANO in previews and loved it. The song "You Have Made Me Love" stands out in my mind as being melodic and lyrical.

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I like it very much. But, I have to say the most wonderful CYRANO recording (I like) is something completely different, the one I like is a concept recording.

I wish they made a recording in English of the CYRANO musical that was done in a while back with, Bill van Dijk as Cyrano, Anne Runolfsson as Roxane, and Paul Anthony Stewart as Christian, with James Barbour and Jeff Gardner in supporting roles.

I wish they made a recording of this, I heard it was very well done, but poorly viewed.

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I've heard the Bill van Dijk early 1990s version--or all I could stand of it. It's like an opera without arias--all recitative.

As I've posted in another thread, there's a new musical version of the play, entitled "Bring Me Giants", being workshopped presently at a college in Maryland, and after seeing some of the rehearsals, I think it might be on to something. There have been numerous operas, operettas, and musicals made of the play, but none have succeeded. I think it's partly the fact that the title seems so uninvolving as a musical title. Think of it--would MY FAIR LADY have been a hit if it had been called "PYGMALION!"

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Thank you for the recommendations!

Plummer took the role of Captain von Trapp as a sort of audition for the "Cyrano" producers, to convince them he could sing--then he was crushed when his singing in SOUND OF MUSIC was dubbed!

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