Sondheim Evening: A Musical Tribute (1973 Concert Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording, Live
CD Release Date: 1990-12-13
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Overture [Extended Version] - The Orchestra
- Do I Hear a Waltz? - Dorothy Collins
- If Momma Was Married - Alice Playten,
- America [From West Side Story] - Pamela Myers, Chita Rivera
- One More Kiss [Follies] - Victoria Mallory
- Broadway Baby [Follies] - Ethel Shutta
- You Could Drive a Person Crazy [Company] - Susan Browning, Donna McKechnie, Pamela Myers
- Take Me to the World [Evening Primrose]
- I Remember [Evening Primrose] - Victoria Mallory
- Silly People [Little Night Music] - George Lee Andrews
- Two Fairy Tales [Little Night Music] - Mark Lambert, Victoria Mallory
- Love Is in the Air [Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum] - Larry Blyden, Susan Browning
- Your Eyes Are Blue [Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum] - Harvey Evans, Pam Hall,
- Pleasant Little Kingdom [Follies] - Dorothy Collins, John McMartin
- Too Many Mornings [Follies] - Dorothy Collins, John McMartin
- Entr'acte - The Orchestra
- Me and My Town (Anyone Can Whistle) - Harvey Evans, Angela Lansbury, Tony Stevens
- Little Things You Do Together [From Company] - Mary McCarty
- Getting Married Today [Company] - Steve Elmore, Beth Howland, Teri Ralston
- Buddy's Blues [Follies] - Larry Blyden, Donna McKechnie, Chita Rivera
- So Many People [Saturday Night] - Susan Browning, Jack Cassidy
- Another Hundred People [Company] - Pamela Myers
- Happily Ever After [Company] - Larry Kert
- Being Alive [Company] - Larry Kert
- We're Gonna Be All Right [Do I Hear a Waltz?] - Laurence Guittard, Teri Ralston
- Beautiful Girls [Follies]
- I'm Still Here [Follies] - Nancy Walker
- Parade in Town (Anyone Can Whistle) - Angela Lansbury
- Could I Leave You? [Follies] - Alexis Smith
- Losing My Mind [Follies] - Dorothy Collins
- Anyone Can Whistle - Stephen Sondheim
- Side by Side by Side [Company]
Music reviews of Sondheim Evening: A Musical Tribute (1973 Concert Cast)
Music Review: One of the most exciting evenings in the theatre, ever.
Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewing this album in 1998 I wrote:
This concert was recorded live at the Shubert theatre in New York in March of 1973 - just a few weeks after A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC had opened. Being a live recording there are some technical drawbacks - hence 4 stars instead of 5 - but the electicity generated by the performers and the event have never been matched by any subsequent Sondheim concert.
Among the highlights: -Nancy Walker's definative performance of "I'm Still Here."
-Ethel Shutta recreating her showstopping "Broadway Baby" which was abridged on the FOLLIES cast album
-Jack Cassidy and Susan Browning in a premiere recording of "So Many people" from the unproduced SATURDAY NIGHT
-Larry Kert offering both "Happily Ever After" and its replacement "Being Alive" from COMPANY.
-A half-dozen songs that had not been heard because they were dropped from shows before opening night or left off teh cast albums.
-Angela Lansbury recreating two of her big numbers from the ill-fated ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
-and, a grand finale where Sondheim himself sings (?) the title song from WHISTLE.
A useful overview of some of his best work (to 1973 at least) enlived by some steller performances. The original 2 LP set had been out-of-print for many years fetching $85 a copy at collector shops. RCA's CD edition restores some addional material left off the Lp and is a great bargain!
I should add a few small advisories: The sound is only so-so - picked up mainly by floor mics, and the orchestra sounds tinny. But in the end it only adds to the you-are-there quality. Collectors have traded complete tapes of the whole show for years, and having heard these I can say that the tracks here are the best of the lot.
Description of Sondheim Evening: A Musical Tribute (1973 Concert Cast)
Affectionately referred to as the "Scrabble album" for its playful cover art, Sondheim Evening: A Musical Tribute was the first of many tribute albums celebrating the music of Broadway's greatest modern composer, Stephen Sondheim. In 1973, however, he was still a relative newcomer whose work as a lyricist was more celebrated than his early efforts as a composer, which included Company and Follies. Accordingly, this tribute deviates from later efforts by including a few songs for which he only provided lyrics, but somewhat surprisingly, it also sets a trend by unearthing rarely heard selections--from Saturday Night and Evening Primrose--as well as songs cut from various shows, including A Little Night Music, which had just premiered a few weeks earlier). And that cast! Members of the original companies--including Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera, Dorothy Collins, Alexis Smith, and Donna McKechnie, just to name a few--as well as Sondheim himself singing "Anyone Can Whistle" from the piano. Obviously, later tribute albums have more material to work with and similar all-star rosters (though they sometimes resort to gimmicks such as men singing women's songs), but this one has yet to be topped. --David HoriuchiGeneral CDs
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