Sail Away — with Tony winner Stritch — Hits Stores July 22 - playbill.com

[KB]

Posted: 7/10/03 at 10:43am

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/80581.html

I'm not at all familiar with this score... Was it any good?

KB

[Broadway Bill]

Posted: 7/10/03 at 11:13am

Interesting! I was just trying to find a copy of this for my "Broadway Time Capsule" sewgment on the show today. Guess I'll get this and play it later!
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[magruder]

Posted: 7/10/03 at 11:21am

Just wanted to mention that the Fynsworth release is the London cast recording of Sail Away ... which is a little jazzier than the Broadway cast recording. Stritch is in good form in both. The score is a bit "floppo," but there are some great and fun numbers, like the title song, "Useful Phrases," "Beatnik Love Affair," "When You Want Me," "The Little One's ABC's" (aw, NUTS!), and the essential track for Stritch fans, "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?"

Updated On: 7/11/03 at 11:21 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/10/03 at 3:05pm

Any thoughts on this for a community theater production? Is the dancing difficult? Songs shouldn't be too hard -- after all, Coward was no Sondheim when it comes to chords with 5 notes in them.

[billyweeds]

Posted: 7/11/03 at 7:26am

Add to the list of good songs from "Sail Away" Stritch's ballad "Something Very Strange." It's haunting. The score is far from great, but it's much more entertaining than anything Andrew Lloyd Webber ever churned out.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/11/03 at 7:33am

Coward wrote the musical for Stritch, so it was tailored to her talents.

[IssaMe]

Posted: 7/11/03 at 9:15am

"Go Slow, Johnny" is better on this version than on the Broadway cast album.

As frequently happens with Fynsworth Alley, there are creative and licensing problems involved with this release...it could have had many more extra tracks but a nasty snag occurred - including over the packaging.

It may or may not be able to stay on the market - so snap it up quick!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/11/03 at 11:44pm

I saw the concert version of this show at Carnegie Hall a few years ago. I liked it very much.

Coward really didn't write this show with Strich as the lead. She was a secondary character in the original version. An opera singer was the romantic lead. However, during the out-of-town try-outs, it became obvious Stritch was stealing the show, so the opera singer got axed and her role was combiined with Stritch's. The rest, as they say, was history.

The score is nice enough. I like "The Wrong People Travel" and "Little Ones' A-B-C's"

Please note that when this show originally ran, a Grade "B" show could run for 6 months and recoup its cost. It was also presented at a time when there were at least 5 openings on Broadway each week.