PR: Masterworks Broadway To Release Woman of the Year

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY PRESENTS

Woman of the Year – Starring Lauren Bacall - Available August 14

The Beggar’s Opera – 1968 London Cast - Available September 18

Masterworks Broadway continues to make good on its promise to make available its extensive catalog of cast recordings with the release of a classic album from the archives – Woman of the Year (August 14), accompanied by new album pages and photos on MasterworksBroadway.com.

Lauren Bacall might have been the unlikeliest candidate ever for Broadway-diva musical stardom – you had to love her to love her singing – but she absolutely nailed it. And twice. Her first musical, Applause (1970), had given her glorious second act to a film career that was as uneven as it was memorable. Her second, Woman of the Year, only reaffirmed that triumph when it opened at the Palace Theater on March 29, 1981. Based on the classic Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn film, Woman of the Year features music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb with an all-star cast including Harry Guardino and scene stealer Marilyn Cooper. The New York critics loved not only Bacall and Cooper but also Kander and Ebb’s songs. In the New York Post, Clive Barnes wrote that the “melodious score by John Kander and the witty lyrics by Fred Ebb mark their best collaboration yet for the musical theater, and that includes Cabaret.” The New York Times’s Frank Rich wrote, “From the moment we hear the cheering overture … it’s clear that the score is flush with melodic ballads and show-biz brio.” The show won Tonys® for Bacall, Cooper, Kander and Ebb and Peter Stone, who wrote the book. Woman of the Year will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on August 14 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on September 11, plus streaming and downloads via digital service providers the same day.

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Will the revised -- basically all new -- title song be included?

<i>It's badly in need of a remaster if I recall correctly. Even the original LP had sketchy mixing.</i>

Anyone know if this release is remastered and/or remixed?

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Not one of Kander and Ebb's best scores - I almost prefer the mediocre Curtains to it. Almost.

The people who said The Visit was top drawer Kander and Ebb said that because they expected typical Kander and Ebb stuff, which I love. However, The Visit was its own beast.

Excellent news!!