A TOUCH OF ROME (1954)

A TOUCH OF ROME
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A TOUCH OF ROME

Date: 1954 

 

Performers: Harold Rome  

Also contains: Fanny (1954 Harold Rome) and Rome-Antics (1956 Harold J. Rome)

 

Tracks:  

 1. Mene, Mene, Tekel [From Pins and Needles] 

 2. Sunday in the Park [From Pins and Needles] 

 3. It's Better With a Union Man [From Pins and Needles] 

 4. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones [From Sing Out the News] 

 5. Military Life (The Jerk Song) [From Call Me Mister] 

 6. South America Take It Away [From Call Me Mister] 

 7. Call Me Mister [From Call Me Mister] 

 8. The Money Song [From That's the Ticket] 

 9. Gin Rummy Rhapsody [From That's the Ticket] 

 10. You Never Know What Hit You (When It's Love) [From That's the Ticket] 

 11. I Shouldn't Love You [From That's the Ticket] 

 12. Cry Baby [From Alive and Kicking] 

 13. French With Tears [From Alive and Kicking] 

 14. Don't Want to Write About the South [From Bless You All] 

 15. I Can Hear It Now [From Bless You All] 

 16. Pocketful of Dreams [From Michael Todd's Peep Show] 

 17. Where Did the Night Go? [From Wish You Were Here] 

 18. Don José of Far Rockaway [From Wish You Were Here] 

 19. Wish You Were Here [From Wish You Were Here] 

 20. Restless Heart [From Fanny] 

 21. Love Is a Very Light Thing [From "Fanny"] [From Fanny] 

 22. Fanny [From Fanny] 

 23. Be Kind to Your Parents [From Fanny] 

 24. I Have to Tell You [From Fanny] 

 25. To My Wife [From Fanny]

SINGERS: HAROLD ROME "ROME-ANTICS"

HAROLD ROME "ROME-ANTICS"
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https://castalbums.org/recordings/Rome-Antics-1956-Harold-J-Rome/19650

FANNY (2010 ENCORES!)

FANNY (2010 ENCORES!)

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Fanny

NY City Center Encores - February 2010

Review by John Kenrick

With a rich and varied score by Harold Rome and a masterful libretto by S.N. Behrman and Joshua Logan, Fanny is one of the most inexplicably under-appreciated musical hits from Broadway's so-called "Golden Age."  Warmly received in 1954, it enjoyed a well-deserved two year run, but the Hollywood screen version turned the songs into background score, and revivals have been few and far between. The original cast recording preserved some glorious singing by Ezio Pinza, William Tabbert and newcomer Florence Henderson, but it took more than half a century for New York to get a fresh chance to hear Fanny in all its fully orchestrated glory.

The result is the kind of joyous rediscoveries that the Encores was designed to provide. Solid casting, excellent staging, and loving attention to a demanding score -- and a City Center audience was once more aglow, basking in a well-crafted, rarely seen gem. Set on the picturesque Marseilles waterfront, Fanny told a rather daring story by the standards of its day. When Fanny's lover Marius leaves to sail the world, she soond discovers herself pregnant. The much older businessman Panisse offers to marry Fanny and proclaim the child his own -- with the blessings of longtime friend (and sometime foe) Cesar, who is Marius's father. Years later, Marius returns, and all of the characters face difficult decisions in the name of love.

It is always a joy to see and hear the wonderful George Hearn again.  As Cesar, he invests a difficult role with exquisite, understated emotion, and although it sounded at times as if he were contending with a cold, he wrapped his warm baritone around every note, making for moments of surprisingly gentle beauty. People in the profession know and admire Fred Applegate as an outstanding character actor, but as Panisse he gets a rare chance to combine his masterful acting with some truly beautiful singing -- the result is a magical, moving performance. As Fanny, lovely Elena Shaddow sings with a gorgeous soprano voice and acts with tremendous heart, and as her young lover Marius, James Snyder wins cheers with a soaring tenor voice and leading man looks. Priscilla Lopez was a delight as Fanny's mother, Ted Sutherland is charming as Fanny's son, and both Michael McCormick and Jack Doyle scored comic points in ensemble roles.

Some people have dismissed Fanny as "old fashioned" -- and anyone who says that is merely proclaiming their own ignorance. This is a musical built at a time when discerning audiences wanted masterful, satisfying, melodic entertainment on Broadway -- a time when angry stomping did not pass for choreography, when plots had to be more than a tired old screenplay, when toilet-mouthed obscenities were not acceptable lyrics, and when music had to be something more than the recycled leftovers from some pop songwriter's file cabinet. It's a fair bet Broadway will rarely offer up new musicals with the emotional eloquence of Fanny -- all the more reason to rejoice when Encores gives discriminating audiences such a satisfying chance to revisit the kind of magic that made many of us fall in love with musicals in the first place.

FANNY (1954 OBC)

FANNY (1954 ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST)

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Show

Fanny

Music

Harold Rome

Lyrics

Harold Rome

Book

S.N. Behrman, Joshua Logan 

Tracks:
Overture -- Orchestra
Octopus Song -- Gerald Price
Restless Heart -- William Tabbert & Men
Never Too Late for Love -- Walter Slezak & Chorus
Cold Cream Jar Song -- Walter Slezak
Why Be Afraid To Dance? -- Ezio Pinza
Shika, Shika -- Nejla Ates/Mohamed El Bakkar/Chorus
Welcome Home -- Ezio Pinza
I Like You -- Ezio Pinza/William Tabbet
I Have to Tell You -- Florence Henderson
Fanny -- William Tabbert
Panisse and Son -- Walter Slezak
Wedding Dance -- Chorus
Finale Act I -- Chorus
Birthday Song -- Florence Henderson/Edna Preston
To My Wife -- Walter Slezak
The Thought of You -- Florence Henderson/William Tabbert
Love Is a Very Light Thing -- Ezio Pinza
Other Hands, Other Hearts -- Ezio pinza/Florence Henderson/William Tabbert
Montage -- Chorus
Be Kind to Your Parents -- Florence Henderson/Lloyd Reese

Cast:

Nejla Ates, Mohammed El Bakkar, Alan Carney, Florence Henderson, Don McHenry, Ezio Pinza, Edna Preston, Gerald Price, Gerald H. Price, Walter Slezak, William Tabbert

FANNY (1961 OST)

FANNY (1961 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)
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Tracks:
01 Main Titles (02:35)
02 I Like You (02:20)
03 My Restless Heart (02:40)
04 Fanny (03:58)
05 Oysters Cockles and Mussels (01:23)
06 I Have to Tell You (02:06)
07 Love is A Light Thing (01:56)
08 Religioso (02:22)
09 Never Too Late for Love (02:34)
10 Welcome Home (02:08)
11 To My Wife (01:45)
12 Panisse and Son (04:03)
13 Roadshow Exit Music (05:28)

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