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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0605288123122 Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered Label: Jay Records Manufacturer: Jay Records Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Jay Records Release Date: October 29, 1996 Sales Rank: 155008 Studio: Jay Records
Album Description: With a fluid integration of drama, comedy, jazz, classical and popular ballads, "On the Town" stands as one of the great innovative works in the history of musical theatre.
Bringing the recording up-to-date with the best that modern recording has to offer, producer John Yap has used the original orchestrations with a full symphony orchestra and an all-star cast drawn from stage, screen and television - including Kim Criswell, Judy Kaye, Gregg Edelman, Tim Flavin, Ethan Freeman, Valerie Masterson and Tinuke Olafimihan.
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Rating: - A wonderful Recording of one of the GREAT THEATER SCORES OF ALL TIME
On the Town is one of the Great Theater Scores of all times. If you don't know it well then you probably think West Side Story came out of no where from Bernstein's imagination, when nothing could be further from the truth. On the Town is a younger man's musical, told in song and dance almost equally. This great score has been very well served on recordings. Leonard Bernstein went into the studio in 1960 (almost 20 years after the show closed and brought all the important parts of the original cast with him. Nancy Walker, Betty Comden, Adolphe Green, and Cris Alexander recreate their Broadway ... Read More
Rating: - IT MAY BE "COMPLETE," BUT . . . . .
First off: There should be a special award for John Yap, Executive Producer of Jay Productions LTD for giving us "complete" recordings of classic Broadway musicals. Before the advent of the compact disc, musical scores had to be truncated to fit the time constraints of a double-sided LP record. (Record companies believed, and possibly correctly, that record buyers would reject a recording that stretched over four sides.) And prior to the LP, original cast recordings were often limited to 8 or 10 tracks.
All this by way of saying how grateful I am to have all of Bernstein's wonderful ... Read More
Rating: - great cd
this show is amazing......my advice is to buy the cd.....it is well worth the money!!!! u'll love it too!!
Rating: - A superb recording of this great score
"On the Town" has one of the greatest scores of any American musical. Of the three currently available, this can stand on an equal level with the great 1960 recording conducted by Bernstein and featuring most of the original principals, and a bit ahead of the Michael Tilson Thomas recording. This recording does suffer a bit from the fact that most of the singers have never played their roles on stage, but they are all such good theatre singers that they make up for it. And although occasionally John Owen Edwards's tempi choices are just too slow, for the most part his slowish tempi pay off. The ... Read More
Rating: - A poor imitation of the original recording
Most people know On the Town only from the extremely silly movie version, which eliminated virtually all of Leonard Bernstein's amazing work (Harold Clurman, of all people, said that Bernstein's score "IS music.") These people do not know what they are missing - there are few musicals in the annals of the theater with better scores than this one. And this is NOT the CD to buy if you want to hear it. Every song is in some way mishandled, with poor acting, far-too-slow tempos, and annoying vamps. If you really want to hear this score, get the one made with (most of) the original cast; Comden and ... Read More
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