Little Known Shows You Love To Hear The Score

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:41pm

Svengali
Elizabeth & Essex
Elmer Gantry
Sayonara
Paper Moon

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:51pm

While your thread title is missing a preposition (to/for), and, even then, it still would be grammatically incorrect, I'll throw in a few:

EDITED: because Roxy can't form a sentence or even a thread title, apparently and I listed shows that have been recorded.

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Updated On: 12/3/09 at 06:51 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:56pm

I see nothing wrong with simply listing the shows.

Be that as it may, The Fix & Witches are available on CD.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 6:59pm

Nevermind.

This thread sucks

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Posted: 12/4/09 at 1:10am

Raggedy Ann

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 1:14am

I don't understand the topic question? Is it musicals that you'd love to hear the score from that weren't recorded (even in bootleg form)?

Well everything listed here exists so....how about the musical version of THE PRINCESS BRIDE by Adam Guettel that got shelved.

Posted: 12/4/09 at 1:44am

There's a bootleg of the Suite from that I believe

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 8:37am

From little known shows that have been recorded, I especially like the scores to:

GOLDILOCKS, 1958, starring Elaine Stritch and Don Ameche, with a score by Leroy Anderson and lyrics by Joan Ford and Walter & Jean Kerr. I saw this show twice and enjoyed it thoroughly.

OH CAPTAIN!,1958, starring Tony Randall and featuring the great belter Susan Johnson, with music by Jay Livingston and lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. I never saw it.

I HAD A BALL, 1964, starring Buddy Hackett, Richard Kiley, and another great belter, Karen Morrow, with music & lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Stan Freeman. This show is a guilty pleasure, brassy beyond belief. I never saw it.

All three shows are still available on Amazon.com, the first two dirt cheap.

Updated On: 12/4/09 at 08:37 AM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 8:59am

Most people my age don't know it, so I'm throwing out Seesaw. LOVE it.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 9:08am

I'd be interested to hear 1947 road closer BONANZA BOUND, music by Saul Chaplin, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 11:10am

Little known show CDs I listened regularly:
Jennie
3hree
High Spirits
The Legend of Joan of Arc (Macdermot)
Beauty and The Beast (Spencer & Blood)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Griggs)

Not sure if these quite qualify as little known (but, certainly little performed):
Seesaw
Mack & Mabel
Notre Dame de Paris
Seventh Heaven
Happy Hunting
Oh, Captain

[broadwaybabe1234]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 11:18am

Sweet Smell of Success, 2002 this is one of my favorite scores and Marivn Hamlisch really did well! The vocals are amazing! John Lithgow, Brain D'arcy James and Kelli O'hara were spot on! i wish this had stayed around longer so i could have seen it

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 11:38am

I always keep Goldilocks, I Had a Ball and The Human Comedy on my mp3 player.

For shows that didn't receive a cast recording, I listen to Carrie and Via Galactica regularly. Via Galactica has several gems, but my favorite number is "Up", which was the original title of the show. The classic tale is that they changed the name once the Uris was booked because of how the marquee would appear.

[homeimp]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 6:06pm

Sweet Smell Of Success is one show whose score I grew to appreciate on repeat listenings. Lionel Bart's Blitz is another score I grew to love. I also like Big the Musical, The Tap Dance Kid, The Rink, The Rothschilds, Baby, The Goodbye Girl and the upcoming Flahooley.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 7:43pm

I heard one song from Hamlisch's Jean Seberg & would love to hear the whole thing.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 7:48pm

I know the score to JEAN SEBERG very well. I like a bunch of the songs. I, too, love most of Hamilsch's other scores (not hot on GOODBYE GIRL or THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG) and SSOS is one of my fav scores of the 00s.

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[Q]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 8:14pm

SHOW ME WHERE THE GOODTIMES ARE, an adaptation of THE IMAGINARY INVALID.

And Pgenre - after having declared that "This thread sucks," are we to take your eventual participation as an unconscious apology?
Updated On: 12/5/09 at 08:14 PM

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 8:19pm

No and the thread title is incomprehensible, which is why it sucks and I deleted the list I had written in protest. Roxy mentioned a show about 6 people are aware of which I happen to also be a fan of so THAT is that, mother dear.

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[myshikobit]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 8:59pm

The Highest Yellow

PLEASEEEEEEE

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 9:03am

Homeimp: The "upcoming" FLAHOOLEY? Are you saying that this 1951 musical with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by the famous E.Y.(Yip) Harburg, starring Barbara Cook, which lasted 40 performances, is going to be revived?!!! It received 2 favorable and 4 unfavorable reviews. You do the math.

[homeimp]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 9:26am

Actually, it is being done at Theater for the New City Dec. 18-Jan. 3. Maybe this doesn't constitute an official revival, but it certainly is "upcoming". I'd love to attend, and I'm actually in the city from Toronto, but my theater schedule is fully booked. Here is the link. Hope I'm allowed to post it.

http://theaterforthenewcity.net/flahooley.htm

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 11:29am

I think I Had A Ball would be great with Nathan Lane as Garside. Maybe they could restore some of the songs cut because Hackett had no voice to sing them. Stokes could be Stan .

The show has a great score & would be a gas. How about encores first?

Updated On: 12/5/09 at 11:29 AM

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 1:45pm

Homeimp: I stand corrected. The Theatre For the New City is indeed presenting a brief, holiday revival of FLAHOOLEY, with a new adaptation of the book originally written by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, creators of FINIAN'S RAINBOW. The promotional material on your link mentions Harburg's anti-McCarthy, leftist leanings which were an integral part of the original book. I wonder what the new adaptation will be like and how the new producers got permission to write a new adaptation.

FLAHOOLEY has marionettes which will appeal to young people, while its political side should interest their parents. This show was my first Broadway musical and, at 10 years old, I assure you that it was the marionettes which interested me the most, plus the score which has its beguiling moments. Incidentally, that East Village theatre mentioned in Homeimp's link is known for its experimental productions.

Updated On: 12/5/09 at 01:45 PM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 2:21pm

"The Crooked Mile" by Peter Greenwell has one of the greatest musical scores ever written for the stage (okay, London's West End but it's a masterpiece equal to anything by Sondheim.)

"On Your Toes" is utterly evocative of its period and "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" instantly transports me back to New York of 1936.

"Bravo Giovanni" has sweeping lush melodies and Michelle Lee at age 18 is totally hot on the soundtrack (and her belt number, "I'm All I've Got" is an amazing audition piece few people have heard.)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 2:55pm

Flahooley is such a fun listen. It has a few charmers, but just the bizarreness of listening to a musical comedy score and then running into the badass Yma Sumac tracks is such a delicious curiosity. And then the whole genie thing. I can't help but wonder what it was like all put together.

"Let there be Flahooleys!"

I'm not a huge fan of Blitz, though there are a couple of songs I like, but The Crooked Mile is an excellent score! I've only heard the workshop of Jean Seberg, but the only song I liked was Dreamers, which was repeated ad nauseum. Probably more than Marilyn Monroe in Blood Brothers.