Interesting Times piece on Lerner/Loewe's The Day Before Spring

[Smaxie]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 6:24am

Today's NY Times has an interesting story about the efforts to piece the score back together for Lerner & Loewe's Broadway musical debut, The Day Before Spring (1945), which begins a weekend run at the York Theatre's Musicals in Mufti tonight. The search led to MGM, various surviving talent involved with the original production and finally to the Library of Congress.
The Day Before Spring restored

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 7:57am

Y'know, rather than yet another cast recording of GYPSY or GREASE, *this* is what I'd like to see put to CD. I doubt it'll happen, but I'm hoping someone connected wioth the produciton records it for the Museum of Performing Arts.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 11:36am

This is so reminiscent of the hunt for "Me and My Girl" by Richard Armitage, the son of Noel Gay the composer, that included ads in the paper, trolling vintage theatre shops and hiring lip readers to view Australian tourist film of the '30s.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 11:37am

So excited to see this show this weekend!!!