NEW KRITZERLAND CAST ALBUM RELEASE

Just a head's up:

Kritzerland is proud to present a new limited edition CD release:


GONE WITH THE WIND Original London Cast Recording
Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome

A musical of Gone With The Wind? Sounds crazy, no? But in the occasionally crazy world of musical theater, that’s exactly what happened. Premiering in London (after a production in Tokyo), Gone With The Wind had a book by Horton Foote (the playwright, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of To Kill A Mockingbird) and music and lyrics by the great Harold Rome.

That London production, starring June Ritchie as Scarlett O’Hara and Harve Presnell as Rhett Butler, opened in 1972 at the Drury Lane Theater. Reviews were, in some cases, surprisingly good, and the show ran a year. The Evening Standard raved, “Choreography and music are brilliantly blended in a storytelling exercise that never stops for breath. There are no artificially set numbers to halt the momentum of the tale and every precise dance number propels the action forward.” “What a musical! Singing Scarlett is here to stay,” said the Daily Express.

Thankfully, EMI made a cast album of the show, preserving the delightful and tuneful Harold Rome score. This CD was mastered from the original album masters housed at EMI in the UK.

This release is limited to 1000 copies only. The price of the CD is $19.98, plus shipping. Additionally, we are offering a special deal with the purchase of this release. Go to the item page and click on the link to find out about it.

CD will ship the third week of March – however, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early). To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.

More coming over the next couple of months.

I'm so happy! I waited a long time for it. Thank you! Hope one of the future reissues will be Side by Side Australian cast.

I appreciate hearing about this even though you merely do it as a courtesy.

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Just placed an order for the 2-cd deal!

Now please- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. I loved the show and the score is hugely melodic. Coming Down to Earth Again is a beautiful ballad!

I don't have the LP so have no idea what you're talking about - the overture on the tapes sounded fine to me.

The teeny-tiny violins - yes - a very small string section not beefed up for the recording - can't do anything about that, unfortunately. But they're playing at the correct speed :)

You can hear samples on our website.

Thanks for the info, Bruce. You are, as usual, correct (I pulled out the LP and listened again and sure enough, the strings are overwhelmed.) On the other hand, some of the music is very lovely.

I was working (during college) at the National Arts Center in Ottawa when the show was announced and Ottawa was a stop on the pre-Broadway tour. I was really looking forward to seeing it, but sadly, it died, like Charles Hamilton, very early in the campaign....

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Carnival?

Twang! is an interesting situation - they are looking for paperwork. However, John Yap, who reissued it on CD has been selling CDRs of it - he thinks he still has some sort of rights to do so, but he doesn't - he apparently kept the master tapes instead of returning them, so at least we know where they are should anything happen. It's more than a little annoying when this sort of thing happens since there are only a finite number of sales in these titles.