Mr. President (1962 Original Broadway Cast)
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Composer: Irving BerlinPerformer: Robert Ryan
Performer: Nanette Fabray
Performer: Anita Gillette
Performer: Jack Haskell
Performer: Stanley Grover
Performer: Jack Washburn
Performer: Wisa D'Orso
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Mr. President/Act 1. Overture
- Mr. President/Act 1. Let's Go Back to the Waltz
- Mr. President/Act 1. In Our Hide-Away
- Mr. President/Act 1. The First Lady
- Mr. President/Act 1. Meat and Potatoes
- Mr. President/Act 1. I've Got to Be Around
- Mr. President/Act 1. The Secret Service
- Mr. President/Act 1. It Gets Lonely in the White House
- Mr. President/Act 1. Is He the Only Man in the World
- Mr. President/Act 1. They Love Me
- Mr. President/Act 1. Pigtails and Freckles
- Mr. President/Act 1. Don't Be Afraid of Romance
- Mr. President/Act 1. Laugh It Up
- Mr. President/Act 1. Empty Pockets Filled with Love
- Mr. President/Act 2. Glad to Be Home
- Mr. President/Act 2. You Need a Hobby
- Mr. President/Act 2. The Washington Twist
- Mr. President/Act 2. The Only Dance I Know
- Mr. President/Act 2. I'm Gonna Get Him
- Mr. President/Act 2. This Is a Great Country/Finale
Music reviews of Mr. President (1962 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Nanette Fabray shines in Irving Berlin's final Broadway show...
Rating: 3 Stars
The last major Broadway score from the pen of Irving Berlin, MR. PRESIDENT is a charming throwback to his earlier musical hits ("Call Me Madam" in particular), though of course this was precisely why it failed to find it's key audience in 1962, closing after eight months and 265 performances.
Broadway musicals of the early Sixties were in a definite state of flux. "Bye Bye Birdie" virtually reinvented the sound of musicals, so when the audiences of MR. PRESIDENT were invited, in the opening number, to "go back to the waltz", you can imagine their confusion!
Cast members Nanette Fabray and Anita Gillette (playing the first lady Nell Henderson and her teenage daughter Leslie) manage to keep their songs nice and bouncy; but they can only do so much to give the score, as a whole, it's needed lift. I agree with previous reviewers who've recommended listeners to programme the CD with just Fabray's musical numbers--it does make for a far more pleasurable experience! This was Fabray's long-awaited return to Broadway after a ten-year absence (her last role had been as Janette in 1951's "Make a Wish", another show which flopped badly); in between, Fabray had made a success in movies with "The Band Wagon" and established herself as a popular TV personality. MR. PRESIDENT is sadly Fabray's final Broadway musical appearance to date.
I also own the original Columbia LP with it's silver foil cover and colour-tinted cast photo inside the gatefold; a real treasure (the same photo is replicated on the back of the CD booklet). This is the second major CD reissue of the MR. PRESIDENT cast album (following a long-deleted release on the old Sony Broadway label), so grab it before it disappears...again.
[DRG 19124]
Description of Mr. President (1962 Original Broadway Cast)
The original cast album starring film greats Robert Ryan and Nanette Fabray has long been sought out by cast album collectors as it has been out of print for several years. Irving Berlin wrote "Mr. President" in 1962. The show was to be his final Broadway musical in a career that spanned six decades.General CDs
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