Gypsy - A Musical Fable (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
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Brand: SonyEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Let Me Entertain You - Jacqueline Mayro, Ethel Merman, Karen Moore
- Some People - Ethel Merman, Stephen Sondheim
- Small World - Jack Klugman, Ethel Merman
- Baby June And Her Newsboys
- Mr. Goldstone, I Love You - Ethel Merman
- Little Lamb - Sandra Church
- You'll Never Get Away from Me - Jack Klugman, Ethel Merman
- Dainty June and Her Farmboys
- If Momma Was Married - Lane Bradbury, Sandra Church
- All I Need Is the Girl [#] - Sandra Church, Paul Wallace
- Everything's Coming Up Roses - Ethel Merman
- Together (Wherever We Go) - Sandra Church, Jack Klugman, Ethel Merman
- You Gotta Get a Gimmick [#] - Faith Dane, Chotzi Foley, Maria Karnilova
- Let Me Entertain You [#] - Sandra Church
- Rose's Turn [#] - Ethel Merman
- Some People [#][*] - Ethel Merman
- Mr. Goldstone/Little Lamb [#][*] - Ethel Merman
- Momma's Talkin' Soft [#][*] - Laura Leslie
- Nice She Ain't [#][*] - Bernie Knee
Music reviews of Gypsy - A Musical Fable (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Excellent Choice
Rating: 5 Stars
Merman belts the songs out of the ballpark in a way that Midler can't touch and LuPone only nears in 'Rose's Turn.' The additional tracks on this are worth a listen and enhance the perspective, like the included liner notes, of the final production.
Description of Gypsy - A Musical Fable (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
Considered by many to be the last great musical comedy, Gypsy tells the backstage tale of vaudeville entertainer turned stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her overbearing mother, Rose. Stephen Sondheim's lyrics--composed in advance of Jule Styne's infectious music--provide a tight structure and natural language to the 1959 score, which produced more than its share of Broadway standards, including "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "Small World," "Some People," "If Momma Was Married," "Together Wherever We Go," and the climactic "Rose's Turn." Although the role of Rose has seen subsequent memorable interpretations by Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, and Bette Midler, the show was written for Ethel Merman, and she remains the definitive stage mother.For this 1999 release, the recording has been remastered with numerous short passages restored and four tracks added. Merman sings alternate lyrics to "Some People" and a medley of "Mr. Goldstone" and "Little Lamb," all with piano accompaniment. Two other tracks are songs cut in tryouts: "Momma's Talking Soft" (gently swung here by Laura Leslie) was a duet for June and Louise that provides some context to the later line "Momma's talking loud," while "Nice She Ain't" is crooned by Bernie Knee, who is infinitely more suave than Jack Klugman ever would have been. Expanded to 63 minutes, this essential cast recording is now even more essential. --David Horiuchi
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