The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue (1991 Original Broadway Cast)
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Performer: Will Rogers FolliesEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2011-10-04
Music Label: Columbia
Soundtracks:
- Let's Go Flying
- Will-A-Mania
- Never Met A Man I Didn't Like (Short Version)
- Give A Man Enough Rope
- It's A Boy
- So Long Pa
- My Unknown Someone
- Wild West Show/ Dog Act
- We're Heading For A Wedding
- The Big Time
- My Big Mistake
- The Ziegfeld Follies (My Big Mistake)
- Marry Me Now/I Got You/First Act Finale
- Entr'Acte/Give A Man Enough Rope/ Rope Act
- Look Around
- Our Favorite Son
- No Man Left For Me
- Presents For Mrs. Rogers
- Will-A-Mania (Reprise)/Without You
- Never Met A Man I Didn't Like
Music reviews of The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue (1991 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: A wonderful homage to Will
Rating: 4 Stars
Will Rogers was simply a great American. He had his finger on the pulse and understood the zietgeist long before that word had come into popular usage.
Admittedly, doing stage biographies is tough (witness the Peter Allen show from a few seasons back and imagine it without the tour-de-force called Hugh Jackman) and this proved no exception. But, one cannot take these shows literally...that's the magic of the theatre...and if you just hunker down in your seat and take the spirit and the essence of what they're trying to get across, then you'll be both entertained and touched by the show and the man who Will Rogers was.
Several of the on-line reviewers are critical of the material...yet if you give this CD a listen to more than once, it completely grows on you. Coleman, Comden & Green have captured well the times that Will Rogers lived in and brought it into a Revue format that completely works as a vehicle to present the story.
The comic numbers are great, the bluesy numbers given to Dee Hoty (as Betty Blake Rogers) are classic Broadway showstoppers and Keith Carradine gives a tremendous performance as Will Rogers -- conveying the simple truths and down home honesty and observations that were Rogers' trademark.
I've seen many, many shows over the years and have a huge collection of Broadway cast albums. I love the art form. And, perhaps I'm charmed by the oft mentioned "Ah shucks" personality that Mr. Rogers embodied in an age so much less cynical than today, but this show got into my craw and has stayed there since I first saw it. It's a winner. Will Rogers shines again here and when compared to what we have now that are presented as role models and heroes, we could use another one of him any day.
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