Kern & Hammerstein II: Show Boat - Frederica von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Jerry Hadley, Bruce Hubbard, John McGlinn, London Sinfonietta & Ambrosian Chorus

Kern & Hammerstein II: Show Boat - Frederica von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Jerry Hadley, Bruce Hubbard, John McGlinn, London Sinfonietta & Ambrosian Chorus

Kern & Hammerstein II: Show Boat - Frederica von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Jerry Hadley, Bruce Hubbard, John McGlinn, London Sinfonietta & Ambrosian Chorus
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Composer: Jerome Kern
Conductor: John McGlinn
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta
Performer: Wayne Marshall
Performer: Leslie Fyson
Performer: David Garrison
Performer: Jerry Hadley
Performer: Bruce Hubbard
Performer: Robert Nichols
Performer: Paige O'Hara
Performer: Teresa Stratas
Performer: Frederica Von Stade
Performer: Meriel Dickinson
Performer: Maryetta Midgley
Performer: Gillian Bevan
Performer: George Dvorsky
Performer: Michael Pearn
Performer: Steve Barton
Performer: Kevin Colson
Performer: Ed Bishop
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Show Boat/Overture
  2. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 1. Cotton Blossom
  3. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 1. Andy!!! Drat That Man, He's Never Around!
  4. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 1. Cap'n Andy's Ballyhoo
  5. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 1. Hey Julie! That's a Hell of a Thing to Do
  6. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 1. It's a Man...
  7. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 1. Where's the Mate for Me?
  8. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 1. Make Believe
  9. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 1. Ol' Man River/Oh, Joe! Did You See That ...
  10. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 2. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man/What Cher ...
  11. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 3. Life on the Wicked Stage
  12. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 3. Till Good Luck Comes My Way
  13. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 4. Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'
  14. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 4. Take Her Up, Rubberface!
  15. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 4. Hello, Windy
  16. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 4. You Needn't All Look at Us Like We Were ...
  17. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 4. Looks Like a Swell
Music CD 2
  1. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 5. I Would Like to Play a Lover's Part
  2. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 5. I Might Fall Back on You
  3. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 5. Queenie's Ballyhoo/Is de Theatre Fillin' Up,
  4. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 6. Villain Dance
  5. Show Boat/Act 1. Scene 7. You Are Love/That You, Nola?
  6. Show Boat/Act 1. Finale. Oh Tell Me, Did You Ever!
  7. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 1. At the Fair
  8. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 1. Why Do I Love You?
  9. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 1. In Dahomey
  10. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 3. Convent Scene/Alma Redemptoris Mater
  11. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 4. All Right, Jake - Call 'em at Twelve
  12. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 4. Bill
  13. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 4. Magnolia's Audition/Can't Help Lovin' ...
  14. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 4. Whaddaya Say, Boss?
  15. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 6. Trocadero Opening Chorus
  16. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 6. Apache Dance
  17. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 6. Goodbye, My Lady Love
  18. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 6. After the Ball/Ladies and Gentlemen - I ...
  19. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 7. Ol' Man River (Reprise)
  20. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 7. Hey, Feller!
  21. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 1. Scene 7. You Are Love / That you, Nola?
  22. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 1. Finale. Oh tell me, did you ever!
  23. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 1. At The Fair
  24. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 1. Why Do I Love You?
  25. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 1. In Dahomey
  26. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 3. Convent Scene / Alma Redemptoris Mater
  27. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 4. All right, Jake - call 'em at twelve
  28. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 4. Magnolia's Audition / Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Reprise)
  29. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 4. Whaddaya say, boss?
  30. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 6. Trocadero Opening Chorus
  31. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 6. Apache Dance
  32. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 6. Goodbye, My Lady Love
  33. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 6. After the Ball / Ladies and gentlemen - I regret to announce
  34. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 7. Ol' Man River (Reprise)
  35. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 7. Hey, Feller!
  36. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 8. You Are Love (Reprise) / That you, Nola?
Music CD 3
  1. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Act 2. Scene 9. Cotton Blossom (Reprise)
  2. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 9. Cotton Blossom (Reprise)
  3. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 9. It's Getting Hotter in the North
  4. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 9. Say, Cap'n Andy, Sorry We Couldn't Stay
  5. Show Boat/Act 2. Scene 9. Finale/Hello, Gay. She'll Probably Come ...
  6. Show Boat/Appendix. Pantry Scene (Act 1. Scene 2; Deleted - 1927) What
  7. Show Boat/Appendix. Waterfront Saloon Scene (Act 1. Scene 3; Deleted -
  8. Show Boat/Appendix. Yes Ma'am (Act 1. Scene 3; Unused - 1927) Bet Your
  9. Show Boat/Appendix. Kim's Imitations (Why Do I Love You?) (Act 2. ...)
  10. Show Boat/Appendix. Dance Away the Night (Act 2. Scene 9; London - ...)
  11. Show Boat/Appendix. A Pack of Cards (Act 1. Scene 6; Unused - 1927)
  12. Show Boat/Appendix. The Creole Love Song (Act 1. Scene 7; Unused - ...)
  13. Show Boat/Appendix. Out There in an Orchard (Act 2. Scene 4; ...)
  14. Show Boat/Appendix. Gallavantin' Aroun' (Universal Film - 1936)
  15. Show Boat/Appendix. I Have the Room Above Her (Universal Film - ...)
  16. Show Boat/Appendix. Ah Still Suits Me (Universal Film - 1936)/Joe! ...
  17. Show Boat/Appendix. Nobody Else But Me (Act 2. Scene 9 - 1946 Revival)
  18. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Appendix. Waterfront Saloon Scene (Act 1. Scene 3; deleted - 1927) Number four, black!
  19. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Appendix. Yes Ma'am (Act 1. Scene 3; unused - 1927) Bet your hat you're from the show boat!
  20. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Appendix. Kim's Imitations (Why Do I Love You?) (Act 2. Scene 9; Ziegfeld Production - 1927)
  21. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Appendix. Dance Away The Night (Act 2. Scene 9; London - 1928)
  22. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Appendix. A Pack of Cards (Act 1. Scene 6; unused - 1927)
  23. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Appendix. The Creole Love Song (Act 1. Scene 7; unused - 1927) / That you, Nola?
  24. Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Appendix. Out There In an Orchard (Act 2. Scene 4; unused - 1927)
  25. Show Boat, film music (1936): Appendix. Gallavantin' Aroun' (Universal Film - 1936)
  26. Show Boat, film music (1936): Appendix. I Have the Room Above Her (Universal Film - 1936) / Seems to me I've seen that stocking s
  27. Show Boat, film music (1936): Appendix. Ah Still Suits Me (Universal Film - 1936) / Joe! Dere you go again!
  28. Nobody Else but Me, song (from 'Show Boat')

Music reviews of Kern & Hammerstein II: Show Boat - Frederica von Stade, Teresa Stratas, Jerry Hadley, Bruce Hubbard, John McGlinn, London Sinfonietta & Ambrosian Chorus

Music Review: It's complete but it's mediocre; or, it's mediocre but it's complete
Rating: 3 Stars

Show Boat deserves the deluxe treatment, a complete recording of the original score, including reprises of the big numbers and dialogue from the major scenes so that the interwining of song and story comes across. It took over 70 years for such a recording to come to pass, and the achievement is no small victory.

But what a dull, lifeless album! McGlinn is true to the original tempos, but they are far below the speed most musical theater enthusiasts will be comfortable with. An even bigger problem is the casting. Frederica von Stade has a too-mature voice and odd intonation. She sounds like a deep voiced German, not an American girl. Yet this is the work that inaugurated the American musical as an art form. Most actresses have trouble with Magnolia in the early scenes, but von Stade sounds miscast throughout. Imagine Elizabeth Schwarzkopf as Cherubino and you have some idea of the problem here. And the dialogue heavy sequecnes cause her further embarrassment as she can't act her way out of a paper bag. Teresa Stratas handles her dialogue as Julie La Verne just fine (it's a darkly knowing interpretation, but it works), but when she begins "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and out comes this rich, full, operetic voice, the effect is almost pure camp. This refined voice from a country performer in a little show boat troupe? In the number that hints at her mulatto indentity? (Here are the stage directions: "She starts to sing in an attitude of defiance, then lapsing into the 'blue' spirit of the song".) Something of the same thing occurs with Von Stade entones in flawless English the countrified word "pianner."

And, in essence, this is the trick of Show Boat and the failure of this recording. It's an epic about average people, and the actors have to convince you that they'e just regular folk. When the production is as ornate, and the performances as baroque in style as this, the whole thing descends into travesty. It becomes the musical equivalent of Dresden shepherdesses and Hummel figurines. The little details that create any sense of realism are washed away, and we end up with "cutesy" Cap'n Andys and sweet little Parthys (a sweet Parthy is a contradiction in terms, but here's Nancy Kulp cartooning up the part and adding an ad-lib where she assures Magnolia that she, too, really loves Julie), and the audio equivalent of a Ross Hunter production: big but bland. Imagine a copy of Huckleberry Finn ornately bound and illustrationed, with the contractions and slang placed within quotation marks so that we don't forget Twain "knew better."

Still, despite the numerous recordings of Show Boat out there, they almost all cover the same hit tunes, in complete or truncated form. This is the only one that gives you the complete score, including cut numbers, replacements for the original London production and the later additions for the 1936 movie and the 1946 revival (somehow, under the avalanche of the "Villain Dance" the "Apache Dance" the "Trocadero Opening Chorus" and various unused material a musical archeologist would drool over, they didn't get around to recording the Overture for the 1946 revival. I doubt many people notice that, or feel bothered by the omission). That's a lot of great music, and happily recovered songs (one, "Hey, Feller!" has never been recorded elsewhere; others like "In Dahomey" are represented only by a quick chorus on the hard to track down original London 78s). I'm glad it exists. I just the production wasn't such a disappointment. It's a mixed bag.
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John McGlinn's sprawling, monumental three-CD set is about all the Show Boat any listener could ever ask for. In an obvious labor of love, McGlinn reconstructs the show as it ran on opening night, November 15, 1927, including every song, the original orchestrations, and all underscored dialogue. The most significant restoration is the dark choral number "Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'," as Show Boat's serious subject matter helped establish its place as the most important turning point in the history of American musical theater. McGlinn also adds an appendix that includes songs cut before opening night and every song subsequently written for the show's many productions, most notably the love duet "I Have the Room Above Her," written for the 1936 film. (The recording is also available in a one-disc reduction called the "Broadway Show Album.")

Rest assured this 221-minute blockbuster is not just dry scholarship; it's also terrific listening, with McGlinn conducting a dynamic London Sinfonietta and a strong cast including Frederica von Stade as Magnolia, Jerry Hadley as Ravenal, Teresa Stratas as the tragic Julie, Bruce Hubbard as the worldly wise Joe, Karla Burns as Queenie, and David Garrison and Paige O'Hara as the comic couple Frank and Ellie. And of course the songs by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II are among the most glorious ever written: "Ol' Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Make Believe," "Why Do I Love You," "Bill," "You Are Love," and "Life upon the Wicked Stage." Also included are exhaustive production notes, a history of the show, a detailed synopsis, and a libretto. John McGlinn's Show Boat is a staggering achievement and a recording for the ages. --David Horiuchi

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