Of Thee I Sing/Let 'em Eat Cake (1987 Studio Recording)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Ov - Michael Tilson Thomas/Orch Of St. Lukes
- Act I: Wintergreen For President
- Act I: Who Is The Lucky Girl To Be? - Paige O'Hara/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act I: The Dimple On My Knee - Paige O'Hara/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act I: Because, Because
- Act I: Never Was There A Girl To Be So Fair - Merwin Goldsmith/Walter Hook/Frank Kopyc/Raymond Thorne/Mark Zimmerman/Paige O'Hara/Larry Kert...
- Act I: Some Girls Can Bake A Pie - Larry Kert/Paige O'Hara/Merwin Goldsmith/Walter Hook/Frank Kopyc/Raymond Zimmerman...
- Act I: Love Is Sweeping The Country - George Dvorsky/Louise Edeiken/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act I: Of Thee I Sing - Larry Kert/Maureen McGovern/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act I, Finale Act I: Supreme Court Judges - Casper Roos/Larry Kert/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act I, Finale Act I: A Kiss For Cinderella/Some Girls Can Bake A Pie (Reprise)/Of Thee I Sing - Larry Kert/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummer/Jack Gilford/Maureen McGovern/Paige O'Hara...
- Act II: Hello, Good Morning - George Dvorsky/Louise Edeiken/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act II: Who Cares? - Larry Kert/Maureen McGovern/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act II: The Illegitimate Daughter/Because, Because (Reprise) - Jack Dabdoub/Larry Kert/Merwin Goldsmith/Walter Hook/Frank Kopyc/Raymond Thorne/Mark Zimmerman...
- Act II: Who Cares? - Marueen McGovern/Larry Kert
- Act II: The Senator From Minnesota - Jack Gilford/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act II: The Senate - George Dvorsky/Jack Gilford/Walter Hook/Mark Zimmerman/Raymond Thorne/Jack Dabdoub...
- Act II: Jilted/I'm About To Be A Mother - Paige O'Hara/Jack Gilford/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt/Maureen McGovern
- Act Ii: Posterity Is Just Around The Corner - Larry Kert/Paige O'Hara/New York Choral Artists/Joseph Flummerfelt
- Act II: Trumpeter Blow Your Golden Horn - George Dvorsky/Merwin Goldsmith/Frank Kopyc/Mark Zimmerman/Walter Hook/New York Choral Artists...
- Act II: Finale Ultimo - Jack Gilford/Larry Kert/Maureen McGovern/Paige O'Hara/Jack Dabdoub/George Dvorsky/Louise Edeiken...
- Act II: Of Thee I Sing (Reprise) - Larry Kert/Jack Gilford/Maureen McGovern/Paige O'Hara/Jack Dabdoub/George Dvorsky/Louise Edeiken...
- Overture - Orchestra Of St. Luke's/Michael Tilson Thomas
- Tweedledee For President
- Union Square
- Shirts By The Millions
- Comes The Revolution - Jack Gilford
- Mine
- Climb Up The Social Ladder
- Union League
- On And On And On
- Introduction - George Dvorsky
- I've Brushed My Teeth
- General's Gone To A Party
- Mothers Of The Nation
- Let 'Em Eat Cake
- Blue, Blue, Blue
- Who's The Greatest?
- League Of The NAtions
- No Comprenez, No Capish, No Versteh!
- When Nations Get Together
- Why Speak Of Money?/Who's The Greatest (Reprise)
- Up And At 'Em
- That's What He Did - David Garrison
- I Know A Foul Ball
- Throttle Throttlebottom
- It Isn't What You Did
- Mine (Reprise)
- First Lady And First Gent - Paige O'Hara
- Hanging Throttlebottom In The Morning
- Fashion Show - Maureen McGovern
- Finale Ultimo: Of Thee I Sing (Reprise)
Music reviews of Of Thee I Sing/Let 'em Eat Cake (1987 Studio Recording)
Music Review: A great pair of discs, despite the casting
Rating: 5 Stars
One reason we seldom hear "Of Thee I Sing" is that its creators were afraid to go flat out and write the full-scale through-sung operetta it should have been in the first place, structuring it as a conventional book musical instead, full of wooden scenes and hoary jokes when the songs weren't playing, and the show collapsed under the creaky stage business in revival just twenty years later. Doubly sad as it has glorious music full of inimitable Gershwin touches, and lyrics of striking imagination and wit. That initial success doomed the sequel too: "Let 'Em Eat Cake" was a musical with an attitude, and the shattering events of its day left a sourness on everything; even the composer's magical embellishments are largely missing (though that's probably because we're hearing a reconstruction, the original orchestrations having long been lost). Nonetheless it's a riveting score, and the scene of President Tweedledee's overthrow is genuinely funny.
Experts like Ethan Mordden have made much of this album's casting. To be sure, the 1952 revival was no great shakes with Jack Carson, who could barely sing, and thus with the quite wavery Larry Kert; nonetheless he grows on you, and anyway, we shouldn't expect a president to sing. Maureen McGovern is another matter. She, of course, was a "rock" star (or rather an MOR star); "slumming" is the inevitable word here. More important, she's singing out of her range, and very mannered and a little screechy; at least she's not Judy Kaye, and isn't on so much to be distracting. (Neither is Jack Gilford, who virtually lost his voice by this time and was almost unrecordable.) But Michael Tilson Thomas's vigorous conducting and a spirited supporting crew save the day, and the undoubtable excellence of these scores makes this a must-have for Gershwin and musical fans alike.
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