Bob Merrill - Sugar (Original 1972 Broadway Cast Recording) [Enhanced CD]
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Artist: Bob MerrillPerformer: Jule Styne
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1999-08-03
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Penniless Bums
- The Beauty That Drives Men Mad
- We Could Be Close
- Sun On My Face
- November Song
- Sugar
- Hey, Why Not!
- Beautiful Through And Through
- What Do You Give To A Man Who's Had Everything?
- It's Always Love
- When You Meet A Man In Chicago
- Finale
Music reviews of Sugar (Original 1972 Broadway Cast Recording) [Enhanced CD]
Music Review: Sweet, But Low-Cal
Rating: 3 Stars
When I was a kid, Broadway cast albums were pretty much all I listened to, and for a time, "Sugar" was one of those records that barely left my turntable. Even then I knew it was a second-rate score, due mostly to Bob Merrill's dreadful lyrics. (In what alternate universe does "softly" rhyme with "coffee?") That said, I have great affection for "Sugar." Another reviewer was spot on when he noted that Jule Styne's melodies have the same feel as those he wrote for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." The Roaring 20s seems to bring out the best in him, 'cause the songs here are bright, catchy and loads of fun. And the overture -- presumably arranged by that great master of orchestration, Philip J. Lang -- has to be one of the best ever compiled. The show's success was due mainly to the wonderful clowning of Robert Morse and Cyril Ritchard, and the ever reliable skills of director/choreographer Gower Champion. Of course only the former are evident on this CD, but if you close your eyes and open your mind, you can pretty much imagine what Champion brought to such production numbers as "Sun on My Face" and "When You Meet a Man in Chicago." I can't see "Sugar" being revived anytime soon, not even by an organization like New York's Encores series, which is devoted to revisiting the great forgotten musicals -- because it simply isn't. But listening to "Sugar" brings me back to a time when I was a young starry-eyed kid, holed up in my bedroom, having hopeful fantasies of my own Broadway success. For me, that's a marvelous feeling to recapture.
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