Christine (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2002-04-09
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Welcome Song/My Indian Family
- A Doctor's Soliloquy
- UNICEF Song
- My Little Lost Girl
- I'm Just A Little Sparrow
- How To Pick A Man A Wife
- The Lovely Girls Of Akbarabad
- Room In My Heart
- The Divali Festival
- I Never Meant To Fall In Love
- Freedom Can Be A Most Uncomfortable Thing
- Ireland Was Never Like This
- He Loves Her
- Christine
- I Love Him
- Freedom Can Be A Most Uncomfortable Thing (Reprise)
- The Woman I Was Before/A Doctor's Soliloquy (Reprise)
- I Never Meant To Fall In Love (Reprise)/Finale
Music reviews of Christine (1960 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: An unfortunate misfire
Rating: 1 Stars
The elements were promising, the result was not. Maureen O'Hara, not necessarily known for the lilting Irish lyric soprano she possessed, was given her own Broadway star vehicle that unfortunately came off across as a bland attempt at ripping off "The King and I" (The plot elements and certain devices were all too similar). The lush overture promises a lot, but it never comes through. Most of the score is rather embarrassing - they sound like parodies of Broadway numbers rather than actual music theatre songs. Especially awful: "The UNICEF Song", "I'm Just a Little Sparrow in the House of the Lord", "How to Pick a Man a Woman" and the worst "Freedom Can Be a Most Uncomfortable Thing" (try replacing "Freedom" with "This Score") These titles alone should be enough proof for you. That's not to say there aren't some decent songs, although nothing to rave about. Maureen O'Hara gets the best of the material - "My Little Lost Girl", "I Never Meant to Fall in Love", "I Love Him" and a guilty pleasure is the frustrated leading lady soliloquy (a la "Shall I Tell You What I Think of You?")... - "Ireland Was Never Like This" (although the latter doesn't come close to being anywhere near as powerful as the former.) Morley Meredith possesses a rather overripe, unpleasant operatic baritone and comes across weak in his numbers as the romantic interest. (The man was fired as Joe during tryouts of "The Most Happy Fella" in 1956 because he was not working out) The plot element of Christine falling in love with her widowed son-in-law is rather unsettling as well. The musical (with its book by Pearl S. Buck and score by Hollywood's Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster) ran for 12 performances and was recorded by Goddard Lieberson even after it received its death notice in the form of abysmal critical response. (He was known for keeping his contracts with many of the flop shows - recording Anyone Can Whistle, Juno, Kean, Oh, Captain, Candide, et al. We can really thank him for that - its good to have a wider base of the Broadway of the past - good or bad) It is definitely just a curiosity item. And is worth it for hearing the relatively unknown singing voice of a great leading lady, who suffered the misfortune of being the only good aspect of this musical.
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