Fine and Dandy (2004 Studio Cast) (World Premiere Recording)
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Composer: Kay SwiftConductor: Aaron Gandy
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:
- Overture (Orchestra)
- Machine Shop Opening (Mark Linn-Baker & Ensemble)
- Rich or Poor (Gavin Creel & Jennifer Laura Thompson)
- Fine and Dandy (Carolee Carmello & Mario Cantone)
- Sing High (Male Ensemble)
- I'll Hit a New High (Andrea Burns & Male Ensemble)
- Starting at the Bottom (Gavin Creel)
- Can This Be Love? (Carolee Carmello)
- Fordyce (Ensemble)
- Let's Go Eat Worms in the Garden (Gavin Creel, Carolee Carmello & Ensemble)
- Etiquette (Mark Linn-Baker & Ensemble)
- The Jig-Hop (Andrea Burns & Ensemble)
- Can This Be Love? (reprise) (Jennifer Laura Thompson & Gavin Creel)
- Wedding Bells (Ensemble)
- Nobody Breaks My Heart (Carolee Carmello)
- Nature Will Provide (Deborah Tranelli)
- Finale Ultimo (Carolee Carmello & Ensemble)
- Up Among the Chimney Pots (Natalie Douglas)
- Can't We Be Friends? (John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey)
- Whistling in the Dark (Jack Donahue)
- Once You Find Your Guy (Ann Hampton Callaway)
Music reviews of Fine and Dandy (2004 Studio Cast) (World Premiere Recording)
Music Review: Dandy
Rating: 5 Stars
No one will easily mistake Kay Swift for Gershwin, but it is great that she is finally getting some recognition beyond "Can't We Be Friends?" (included here on this LP as a sort of bonus) which isn't itself all that familiar except to cabaret aficionados. Writing true show music is a different kettle of fish, an art form with different skills, and listening to this LP one begins to construct a live production of FINE AND DANDY in one's head. The voices of the individual performers are immensely helpful in this journey, and some of the tracks you could listen to day and night. I understand that Donald Ogden Stewart wrote the book for this show and I would love to get my hands on it, having enjoyed some of the films he worked on so much, Dinner at Eight, Holiday, Kitty Foyle, The Philadelphia Story and Europa 51 among them. His Socialist bent had an appealing, whimsical side to it and I can see the factory for which Kay Swift wrote her enchanting opening number as the perfect laboratory for Ogden Stewart's brand of inspired nuttiness. Gavin Creel and Carolee Carmello are vivacious and even infectious on their tracks, and it sounds as though they love the songs as much as we love them. "Can This Be Love?" already sounds like a standard, and I predict many renditions of the comical complaint number "Let's Go Eat Worms."
Don't know if a revival of the show would be successful, but it sounds as though it needs one bravura comedian to put it over big. Back in the 1930s they had Joe Cook. Who is Joe Cook's equivalent today? Someone like Will Ferrell I guess--gulp.
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Description of Fine and Dandy (2004 Studio Cast) (World Premiere Recording)
Mary Rodgers is usually heralded as musical theater's sole woman composer, but this new recording of a long-lost gem introduces us to another brilliant member of Broadway's thin female ranks: Kay Swift. Collaborating with her husband, lyricist James Paul Warburg (writing as Paul James), Swift penned a splendid collection of tunes-in turn touching, daffy, percolating and tender-for this 1930 show. Taking place in the unlikely setting of a tool-and-die factory, Fine and Dandy is a bubbly jazz age musical full of melodic invention and lyrical twists. Fans of the Gershwins' 1920s oeuvre will adore this world-premiere recording, and in fact George is namechecked in the wonderful title track, in which Carolee Carmello and Mario Cantone compete in spirited one-upmanship. The CD also includes four songs written by Swift between 1929 and 1950; like Plain and Fancy, they serve to remind us that Swift was one of Broadway's unsung heroes. --Elisabeth VincentelliBroadway & Vocalists CDs
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