Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II - Show Boat (1993 Toronto Revival Cast)
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Artist: Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein IIEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1994-06-28
Music Label: Quality Video
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Cotton Blossom/Cap'n Andy's Ballyhoo
- Make Believe
- Ol' Man River
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- Till Good Luck Comes My Way
- Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'
- I Have the Room Above Her
- Life Upon the Wicked Stage
- Queenie's Ballyhoo
- You Are Love
- Act One Finale - The Wedding Celebration
- Entr'acte
- Why Do I Love You?/ Montage I: The Sports of Gay Chicago
- Alma Redemptoris Mater
- Bill
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Reprise)
- Good Bye, My Lady Love
- After the Ball
- Montage II: Ol' Man River
- Kim's Charleston
- Act Two Finale
Music reviews of Show Boat (1993 Toronto Revival Cast)
Music Review: Show Boat - 1993 Revival CD
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a great album - purchased second-hand but in wonderful condition with no damage and booklet intact. The 1993 revival has updated arrangements and a couple of new songs added - WHY DO I LOVE YOU has been given to Parthy to sing (I'm guessing as a vehicle for Elaine Strich as otherwise Parth doesn't get a solo) and it works well. All in all - a worthwhile update of a classic musical that makes great listening!
Description of Show Boat (1993 Toronto Revival Cast)
When this Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and libretto, based on Edna Ferber's novel) show premiered in 1927 it powerfully changed the course of musicals by being about something: the sweep of 40 years of American history, racial tensions and relations (including miscegenation), even spousal and parental abandonment. It also featured some of the most splendid songs ever written for the legitimate stage, both building on the operetta and music-hall past, and presaging plot-advancement and character-development numbers (which took another quantum leap in Oklahoma). "Make Believe," "Why Do I Love You?" and "Ol' Man River" became standards almost at first hearing, and the production was a hit in spite of the controversy surrounding it. Show Boat suffered only from the lack of sophisticated recording techniques to preserve the original performances, although Helen Morgan (who played the mulatto Julie) later recorded her signature song "Bill." Three movie versions and countless stage revivals kept Show Boat alive and popular--although bowdlerized--for almost 50 years without a definitive recording. (The 1971 production, with Cleo Laine as Julie, came closest.) But it's all here, in the 1994 Toronto recording whose cast transferred almost intact to Broadway. It's a glorious rendering from start to finish, with Rebecca Luker and Mark Jacoby as good as any Magnolia and Gaylord Ravenal we're ever likely to hear. And, I'm sorry Helen and Cleo, but Lonette McKee's "Bill" (with lyrics by P G. Wodehouse) is the most wrenching rendition I've ever heard. --Robert WindelerGeneral CDs
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