Maggie Flynn (1968 Original Broadway Cast)
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Composer: Hugo PerettiComposer: Luigi Creatore
Performer: Shirley Jones
Performer: Jack Cassidy
Performer: Robert Kaye
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-02-10
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Nice Cold Mornin'
- I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way
- Learn How To Laugh
- Maggie Flynn
- The Thank You Song
- Look Around Your Little World
- Maggie Flynn [Reprise]
- I Won't Let It Happen Again
- How About A Ball?
- Pitter Patter
- They're Never Gonna Make Me Fight
- Why Can't I Walk Away
- The Game Of War
- Mr. Clown
- Pitter Patter [Reprise]
- Finale
Music reviews of Maggie Flynn (1968 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: I REALLY WANTED TO LIKE MAGGIE FLYNN . . .
Rating: 2 Stars
I really wanted to like MAGGIE FLYNN. Truly, I did. But there's not much to like about it, beginning with its lackluster overture. Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy must have known they were headlining a disaster, for they don't sound as though they're having a very good time singing trite lyrics set to derivative melodies. The problem, obviously, is Hugo & Luigi. Best known as record producers, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore were behind several successful albums by Perry Como, Elvis Presley, and Sam Cooke - to name a few - and hit singles like "I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens. Along with George David Weiss, they wrote the Presley hit "Can't Help Falling in Love." During the early 60s, the team created The Cascading Voices of the Hugo and Luigi. Regarding their album "Let's Fall in Love," Jason Ankeny wrote in his All Music Guide review: "The signature sound of RCA production gurus Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore is best likened to fondue--rich, creamy and irrefutably cheesy."
Well, if the composer of the classic pop hits "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" and "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" (Bob Merrill) could write successful Broadway musicals, why shouldn't Hugo & Luigi have a go at it? Right? But when all the ballads and "big moments" for the principals sound like "Can't Help Falling in Love" warmed over, except orchestrated by Philip J. Lang . . . Oh, I'll admit my feet got to tappin' a couple of times during some of the marches and pseudo-Irish jigs, but one is nearly indistinguishable from another. Most Broadway flops have at least one redeeming number ("Hey, Look Me Over" from WILDCAT" or "She Touched Me" from DRAT! THE CAT!, for example ), but not so with MAGGIE.
Then there's the book. In the notes from the original souvenir book (reprinted by DRG) Luigi takes most of the credit, although he admits producer Morton Da Costa gave him a hand now and then. Set during the American Civil War but written in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam anti-war movement, is the show a political statement or a romantic drama? Is it even a drama? Everyone is so damned perky (even the children as they sing "The Game of War") one would be inclined to think there's any drama at all. The song "They're Never Gonna Make Me Fight" is no "hell no, I won't go," but it hints at what might have been: "Will you miss me when I'm drafted in the army, When I'm fighting Johnny Reb for Old Black Joe?" . .. . "It's the blacks they're asking you to fight for. But do they go? No! They stay here and take our jobs. Is that what you want?"
I really wanted to like MAGGIE FLYNN. Truly, I did. I even listened to it twice, but both times I grew impatient for it to end. Pity. Listen to Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy's studio recording of BRIGADOON instead. Far better score, and Jones and Cassidy are in much better voice - and you get a terrific performance by Susan Johnson as a bonus.
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