Wish You Were Here (Original Broadway Cast)
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Brand: VARIOUSComposer: Harold Rome
Conductor: Jay Blackton
Performer: Sheila Bond
Performer: Jack Cassidy
Performer: Patricia Marand
Performer: Sidney Armus
Performer: Paul Valentine
Performer: Harry Clark
Performer: Sammy Smith
Performer: John Perkins
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Camp Kare-Free Song
- Goodbye Love
- Ballad Of A Social Director
- Shopping Around
- Mix & Mingle
- Could Be
- Tripping The Light Fantastic
- Where Did The Night Go
- Certain Individuals
- They Won't Know Me
- Summer Afternoon
- Don Jose Of Far Rockaway
- Everybody Love Everybody
- Wish You Were Here
- Relax
- Flattery
- Finale
Music reviews of Wish You Were Here (Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: A DELIGHTFUL SCORE, NOT TO BE MISSED
Rating: 4 Stars
[All quotes from the LP liner notes by Stanley Green] "The Broadway musical theater has had many surprise hits, but none more unexpected than WISH YOU WERE HERE. Greeted by almost unanimously unfavorable reviews following its June 25th premiere, it became a sellout within two months and subsequently went on to achieve the impressive run of 597 performances." Not bad, considering only one musical of the season ran longer: Cole Porter's CAN-CAN (892 performances). KISMET came in third with 583, ME & JULIET managed 358 performances, and WONDERFUL TOWN - 1953's Tony Award winner for Best Musical - ran for only 559.
It was the on-stage Olympic sized swimming pool that almost sunk the show. Since an out-of-town tryout tour was logistically impossible, director/co-producer/co-author Joshua Logan had to ". . . settle for a series of preview performances: apparently this was not a satisfactory compromise, for neither critics nor public were impressed, and it looked as if nothing could save WISH YOU WERE HERE from a quick demise."
Logan spent the weekend revising the script. On Monday ". . . the cast was given thrity-six new pages - almost one fourth of the original - and told that the revisions would be used the following night. For weeks there ensued so many changes in the plot, songs, and in the direction, that critic Harold Clurman wryly referred to the show as the only experimental theater left in New York."
Based on Arthur Kober's 1936 play, HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME, the plot revolves around romantic escapades at a summer adult camp, presumably in the Catskills. "It seemed like a natural [for a musical], with camp entertainment working neatly into the plot and a ready-made chorus line consiting of vacationers in bathing suits." But it is Harold Rome's stellar score - his first for a book musical - that makes the show: "Goodbye Love," "Where Did the Night Go," "Summer Afternoon," "They Won't Know Me," to name a few. Also excellent novelty numbers like "Ballad of a Social Director," "Shopping Around," "Certain Individuals," "Flattery," the seductive "Relax," and "Don Jose of Far Rockaway." Jack Cassidy (first book musical for him, as well) would never again sound as fresh or sing as well as when he delivers the title song.
The entire cast is first rate: Jack Cassidy (Chick Miller); Sidney Armus (Itchy Flexner), Patricia Marand (Teddy Stern), Paul Valentine (Pinky Harris), and Sheila Bond, who won a Best Featured Actress Tony for playing Fay Fromkin. Larry Blyden, Florence Henderson, Reid Shelton, and Phyllis Newman all make their musical-comedy debuts in supporting roles. Don Walker's top-notch arrangements are in the capable hands of Don Walker.
Not to be missed.
(Sonically superior to the Flare and Stage Door imports, DRG's is THE version to own.)
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Description of Wish You Were Here (Original Broadway Cast)
The producers of this 1952 musical went all out, installing an Olympic-size swimming pool on stage! The show (starring Jack Cassidy and Sheila Bond, who won a Tony) was a hit, and so was its title song; you'll hear Eddie Fisher's version as a bonus, plus Summer Afternoon; Flattery , and the rest of Harold Rome's wonderful score.Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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