Favorite "Lost" Scores
Favorite "Lost" Scores
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Favorite "Lost" Scores
Posted: 1/22/14 at 4:50pm
For the purposes of this thread, define a "lost" score as any score that didn't receive an original cast recording and hasn't had a relatively full commercial recording produced.
Funny Face
The New Yorkers
DuBarry Was A Lady
Around The World In 80 Days (Cole Porter)
Love Life
Something More
Hot Spot
How Do You Do, I Love You?
Gatsby (Leigh / Pockriss)
Smile
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Featured Actor Joined: 11/1/13
#4Favorite
Posted: 1/23/14 at 11:36pmSince over half of the score wasn't recorded, I would include "The Golden Apple."
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
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Leading Actor Joined: 6/15/04
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#8Favorite
Posted: 1/24/14 at 9:46am1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#10Favorite
Posted: 1/24/14 at 11:42am
"Wind in the Willows" It ran a weekend back in the '80s. The leads were Nathan Lane, Vicki Lewis and David-James Carroll.
"Rainbow" It was the show that Vincent Youmans wrote after seeing "Showboat". It had lyrics and a book co-written by Oscar Hammerstein II and got pretty good reviews, but never found an audience.
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
ARTc3
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
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Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/13
#13Favorite
Posted: 1/24/14 at 1:28pmI have always wanted to relive, What's a Nice Country Like You Doing In a State Like This. I saw this as a young man and loved it. I know there is a Toronto and London recording, but I have always wanted the New York cast which included, Betty Buckley and Priscilla Lopez.
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#19Favorite
Posted: 1/24/14 at 5:01pm
"Marilyn : An American Fable". I was always fond of Wally Harper's contribution "Cold Hard Cash".
"A Broadway Musical". I saw it and remember very little of the Charles Strouse/ Lee Adams score (other than a bunch of women behind me complaining at intermission how highly offended they were by the song "Yenta Power"). I'd like a recording of all of Strouse's scores and if I'm not mistaken that's the only one missing in my collection.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
logan2
Leading Actor Joined: 6/15/04
#24Favorite
Posted: 1/24/14 at 7:59pm
On my shelf full of records is a set of about a dozen 12=-inch 78-rpm records made in the 1920s by the Victor Light Opera Company: "Gems from..." are just what the title implies.. a chorus with soloists presenting 4 1/2 minute medleys of vocal gems from then current shows. Some of these shows remained popular long enough to get full length studio cast or revival cast discs (NO NO NANETTE, ROSE MARIE, THE STUDENT PRINCE, THE VAGABOND KING, GOOD NEWS) but many others give tantalizing hints of scores filled with delightful melodies:
HONEYMOON LANE
QUEEN HIGH
RIO RITA
MERRY MERRY
THE LOVE SONG
MY MARYLAND
Many of these sides are on CD as part of the BROADWAY THROUGH THE GRAMOPHONE series.
When you look up the shows you find most are no longer performable because the plots
are so idiotic.(In one, two businessmen leave it to a game of cards to determine who
should run the company. The loser also has to act as a butler for the winner.)
Some of the Rodgers and Hart scores ear badly neglected: PEGGY-ANN, EVERGREEN, SIMPLE SIMON, I MARRIED AN ANGEL. Same with Cole Porter's JUBILEE and RED HOT AND BLUE (Merman's mini album of 4 songs is jut a tease.)
And I have always been curious about Lerner and Loewe's WHAT'S UP and THE DAY BEFORE SPRING. I find it hard to believe there is nothing noteworthy in either of these scores.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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