THE MOST HAPPY FELLA (1956 OBC)

THE MOST HAPPY FELLA (1956 OBC)

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CD 2-

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Scans-

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OR

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Show: The Most Happy Fella
Music: Frank Loesser
Lyrics: Frank Loesser
Book: Frank Loesser

Date: May 1956

Performers: Betsy Bridge,  Lee Cass,  Rico Froehlich,  Alan Gilbert,  Russell Godwin,  John Henson,  Susan Johnson,  Keith Kaldenberg,  Roy Lazarus,  Shorty Long,  Art Lund,  Meredith Miller,  Mona Paulee,  Arthur Rubin,  John Sharpe,  Jo Sullivan,  Robert Weede

Length: 2:14:14

Tracks:
Disc 1:
01. Overture (2:26)
02. Thank You, Goodnight (:54)
03. Ooh! My Feet! (2:01)
04. Mock Ballet of Waitresses and Bus Boys (:48)
05. ...Cleo, I Don't Care If He Fires Me!
I Know How It Is (1:50)
06. My Dear Rosabella
I Don No Nothing About You
Maybe He's Kind-a Crazy (3:51)
07. Wanting to Be Wanted
Somebody, Somewhere (2:27)
08. ...Oh, There's the Postman
The Most Happy Fella (3:21)
09. ...Oh, Hallo, Marie (2:18)
10. What Do You Really Know About Her? (:52)
11. Standing on the Corner (2:45)
12. ...All Right. Break It Up, You Guys (1:03)
13. Joey, Joey, Joey (3:57)
14. Soon You Gonna Leave Me, Joe (1:33)
15. ...Mamma, Mamma
Rosabella (2:45)
16. ...Hey, Cicc, Giusepp (1:43)
17. ...This Is Tony's Barn (1:08)
18. Alfonso, Fiorello, Mattilda (2:16)
19. Sposalizio (3:52)
20. ...Well, Here We Are
I Seen Her At The Station (1:31)
21. ...Hey, Ciccio! Giusepp! Giusepp (3:39)
22. Such Friendly Faces
Aren't You Glad (2:22)
25. Step Back Everybody (3:14)
26. Don't Cry (3:52)

Disc 2:
01. Prelude (4:56)
02. ...But What Kind of Medicine Is It? (:42)
03. Take Medicine
Love and Kindness (2:13)
04. We Friends Now
Happy to Make Your Acquaintance (4:56)
05. Oh, Cleo
I Don't Like This Dame (1:55)
06. Ev'nin' Ma'am
Big "D" (4:54)
07. Domenica (Sunday)
How Beautiful the Days (3:21)
08. Scene III. The Vineyards in June
Just Look at E'm
Young People (3:10)
09. Where's That Smile?
Warm All over
Old People Gotta (4:35)
10. Hey, Herman (1:26)
11. Ooh! Smile, Smile, Smile
I Like Ev'rybody (1:11)
12. Scene V. The Vineyards in July (:32)
13. I Love Him
I Know How It Is
Like A Woman Loves A Man (3:21)
14. Quanto Sono Contento!
My Heart Is So Full of You (2:58)
15. Hey, Paesan
Hoedown (1:44)
16. Rosabella! What's-A Matter? (1:57)
17. Ah, Omma Don Know
Mamma, Mamma (3:12)
18. Prelude
Abbondanza (1:48)
19. Hey, What Are You Doin, Fellas? (:55)
20. Supposin' I Should Have to Say Goodbye, Darling
I Like Ev'rybody (Reprise) (3:38)
21. Just the Two of Them
Song of a Summer Night (2:37)
22. Carissima (1:44)
23. Please Let Me Tell You (1:54)
24. But What's Happening (1:12)
25. So You're Finally Gettin' Out of Town
Tell Tony and Rosabella ... (4:24)
26. She Ain't Got No Place to Go
She Gonna Come Home Wit' Me
27. Herman
I Made a Fist (1:10)
28. He's Gonna Be Tony's Bambino
Finale (4:38)

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BEN BAGLEY´S FRANK LOESSER REVISITED

BEN BAGLEY'S FRANK LOESSER REVISITED

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Performers:  Blossom Dearie, Johnny Desmond, Rhonda Fleming, Madeline Kahn, Emily Loesser, Bibi Osterwald, Colin Romoff, Jo Sullivan, Gloria Swanson, Margaret Whiting, David Wilke

Tracks:

1. Kiss the boys goodbye (from Kiss the Boys Goodbye)

2. Three cornered tune (cut from Guys & Dolls)

3. I wish I didn't love you so (from Perils of Pauline)

4. Dancing on a dime (from Dancing on a Dime)

5. Rumble, rumble, rumble (from Perils of Pauline)

6. Snug as a bug in a rug (from The Gracie Allen Murder Case)

7. Where are you now that I need you? (from Red Hot & Blue)

8. Hamlet (from Red Hot & Blue)

9. Poppa don't preach to me (from Perils of Pauline)

10. Why fight the feeling? (from Let's Dance)

11. They're either too young or too old (from Thank your Lucky Stars)

12. Let's get lost (from Happy go Lucky)

13. Murder, he says (from Happy go Lucky)

14. Mary, Mary, quite contrary (from las Vegas Nights)

15. Spring will be a little late this year (from Christmas Holiday)

16. Pleasures & Palaces (from Pleasures & Palaces)

17. Bless the day (cut from Greenwillow)

18. Delicatessen of my dreams

19. Medley Hans Christian Anderson

20. Travelin' light (cut from Guys & Dolls)

21. Wind at my window

22. You understand me (cut from the unproduced musical Señor Discretion Himself)

BEN BAGLEY'S KURT WEILL REVISITED VOL 2

BEN BAGLEY'S KURT WEILL REVISITED VOL 2

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Performers:  Nancy Andrews, Ellen Burstyn, Nell Carter, Blossom Dearie, Tammy Grimes, Estelle Parsons, John Reardon, Arthur Siegel, Jo Sullivan 

Tracks:

1. Come to Paris [The Firebrand of Florence] - Chorus

2. Love Is My Enemy [The Firebrand of Florence] - John Reardon, Jo Sullivan

3. The Little Naked Boy [The Firebrand of Florence] - Arthur Siegel

4. You're Far Too Near Me [The Firebrand of Florence] - John Reardon, Jo Sullivan

5. Nana's Song [The Roundheads and the Pointheads] - Tammy Grimes

6. Sing Me Not a Ballad [The Firebrand of Florence] - Nell Carter

7. Way Out West in Jersey [One Touch of Venus] - Arthur Siegel

8. What More Do I Want? [cut from Love Life] - Jo Sullivan

9. God Bless Rockfeller [Happy End] - Chorus

10. Ballad of the Nazi Soldier's Wife [Schweyk in the Second World War] - Ellen Burstyn

11. Come in Mornin' [Huckelberry Finn] - Arthur Siegel

12. Deep Down in the Seine - Nancy Andrews

13. My Kind of Night [Love Life] - Arthur Siegel

14. I Don't Love You -

15. To Love You and to Lose You - Blossom Dearie

16. Listen to My Song [Johnny Johnson] - Arthur Siegel

THE THREEPENNY OPERA (1954 OOffBC)

THE THREEPENNY OPERA (1954 OOffBC)
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Show: Die Dreigroschenoper
Music: Kurt Weill
Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht
Book: Bertolt Brecht

Date: April 1954

Location: US / NY / New York

Theatre/Venue: Theater de Lys

Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein

Translation: Marc Blitzstein

Orchestrations: Kurt Weill

Performers:  Bea Arthur, John Astin, Joseph Beruh, Bernard Bogin, Paul Dooley, William Duell, Lotte Lenya, Scott Merrill, Gerald Price, Charlotte Rae, Gerrianne Raphael, Marion Selee, Chuck Smith, Jo Sullivan, George Tyne, Martin Wolfson

Tracks
1. Prologue & 2. Overture
2. Ballad of Mac the Knife
3. Morning Anthem
4. Instead-Of-Song
5. Wedding Song
6. Pirate Jenny
7. Army Song  
8. Love Song
9. Ballad of Dependency
10. Melodrama and Polly's Song
11. Ballad of the Easy Life
12. The World Is Mean      
13. Barbara Song        
14. Tango Ballad
15. Jealousy Duet
16. How to Survive
17. Useless Song
18. Solomon Song & Call from the Grave
19. Death Message
20. The Mounted Messanger
21. Finale

The Threepenny Opera:
A piece with music in a Prologue and eight scenes by Bertolt Brecht after John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Produced at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, 31 August 1928 with Harald Paulsen (Macheath) and Lotte Lenya (Jenny).

First performed in this English version by Marc Blitzstein at the Theatre de Lys, New York, 10 May 1954 with Scott Merrill (Macheath) and Lotte Lenya (Jenny). This version first performed in Great Britain at the Royal Court Theatre London, 9 February 1956 with Bill Owen (Macheath) and Maria Remusat (Jenny).

The Prologue, set in Soho, consists of a Street Singer singing the Ballad of Mack the Knife; a man slips between the whores in the market, tips his hat to them - 'Look, there goes Mack the Knife!'

Story:
ACT I
Georgia Brown as Lucy (1956)
Georgia Brown as Lucy in the Royal Court Theatre Production 1956
In Peachum's Beggar's Outfit Shop the day begins with the arrival of a new beggar, Filch, who is fitted out with appropriate clothes and assigned to a begging pitch. Business should be good, because London is full of visitors for Victoria's Coronation. Peachum and his wife are worried that their daughter Polly is keeping company with Macheath, but they are already too late: Macheath and Polly arrive for their marriage in an empty stable, hastily provided with furniture and tableware stolen by Macheath's gang. They sing a bawdy Wedding Song; Macheath demands another song and Polly obliges with Pirate Jenny, a riotous tale with a sting of real menace. The wedding party is joined by Rev. Kimball and Tiger Brown, Commissioner of Police, who are both in Macheath's pocket; Brown and Mackie reminisce about their days in India and then the commissioner leaves, assuring Mackie that he can handle any trouble Polly's father may make.
Polly's parents are furious to hear that she is married. They plan to get Macheath betrayed by one of his many women. Polly overhears the plot and hints that Mackie has a friend in the Police Commissioner, who would be interested to hear about her father's infamous trade.

ACT II
Polly comes to the stable to warn Mackie to disappear - her father has somehow convinced Brown of Mackie's crimes and there is a warrant out for his arrest. He agrees to flee to Highgate, puts her in charge of the gang and tells them so when they arrive. Polly swears at them, to prove she is to be taken seriously and then bids a tender farewell to Mackie. Mrs. Peachum visits the whores in Wapping; she knows Macheath will go there, and bribes Jenny to inform on him. He duly arrives; Jenny reads his hand , then goes to fetch a policeman and returns to reminisce with him about their life together before he is arrested and taken away, to Mrs. Peachum's delight.
At Newgate Prison, Mackie ignores the shamefaced Brown and bribes the jailer £50 to remove his handcuffs. His next step is a reconciliation with Lucy (Brown's daughter and also his wife), who believes everything he says, but realises how gullible she is. Polly arrives, and she and Lucy fly at each other. Mrs. Peachum intervenes and hauls Polly off: Mackie inveigles Lucy to steal the keys and free him, and Peachum,

ACT III
The Peachums are preparing their 'beggars' to disrupt the Coronation procession. Jenny and the whores arrive to collect their informer's money, but Peachum refuses as Mackie has escaped. However, Jenny lets slip that Mackie, after returning to her, is now at Sukey Tawdry's, so Peachum sends Filch to tell the police. But Brown and his band of constables burst in, intending to round up Peachum and his crew of 'beggars', and Peachum has to talk very fast and persuasively to persuade Brown to change direction and go after Mackie.

Jenny has her own wry comment: - 'Is it worth it to be top dog? Guess not!' . Mackie has been caught again; he tries to bribe his way free, but the gang are half-hearted in providing the money. The entire company burst in to see the hanging; Mackie sings a rueful farewell, hypocritical goodbyes are said and just as Mackie mounts the gallows, comes "mercy just for once" in the shape of a reprieve, a knighthood, a castle and a pension! The Street Singer steps forward with a short reprise of Mackie's Ballad "Happy endings, nice and tidy but maybe Peachum's sour comment is nearer the truth.

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BEN BAGLEY'S LEONARD BERNSTEIN REVISITED

BEN BAGLEY'S LEONARD BERNSTEIN REVISITED
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Performers: Nell Carter,  Estelle Parsons,  John Reardon,  Angelina Réaux,  Chita Rivera,  Arthur Siegel,  Jo Sullivan,  Maggie Task


Notes: The music for "Ain't Got No Tears Left" was reused in Bernstein's "The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2)."

Length: 41:21


Tracks:
1. Conquering the City [From Wonderful Town, 1953]
2. Lonely Me [From Wonderful Town, 1953] - John Reardon
3. Big Stuff [From Fancy Free] - Chita Rivera
4. We Are Women [From Candide] - Angelina Reaux, Maggie Task
5. Bright and Black [From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1976] - Nell Carter
6. Another Love/Dream With Me [From "By Bernstein"/Cut from "Peter Pan",] - Jo Sullivan
7. Rio Bamba [From By Bernstein]
8. President Jefferson March [From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1976] - John Reardon, Company
9. It's Got to Be Bad to Be Good [From By Bernstein] - Nell Carter
10. Story of My Life [From Wonderful Town, 1953] - Chita Rivera
11. Take Care of This House [From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1976] - Angelina Reaux
12. Ain't Got No Tears Left [Cut from On the Town, 1944] - Estelle Parsons
13. Ringaroundarosie [Cut from Candide, 1956] - Arthur Siegel, Company

BEN BAGLEY'S LEONARD BERNSTEIN REVISITED

BEN BAGLEY'S LEONARD BERNSTEIN REVISITED

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Tracks:

1. Conquering the City [From Wonderful Town, 1953]

2. Lonely Me [From Wonderful Town, 1953] - John Reardon

3. Big Stuff [From Fancy Free] - Chita Rivera

4. We Are Women [From Candide] - Angelina Reaux, Maggie Task

5. Bright and Black [From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1976] - Nell Carter

6. Another Love/Dream With Me [From "By Bernstein"/Cut from "Peter Pan",] - Jo Sullivan

7. Rio Bamba [From By Bernstein]

8. President Jefferson March [From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1976] - John Reardon, Company

9. It's Got to Be Bad to Be Good [From By Bernstein] - Nell Carter

10. Story of My Life [From Wonderful Town, 1953] - Chita Rivera

11. Take Care of This House [From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1976] - Angelina Reaux 12. Ain't Got No Tears Left [Music from Age of Anxiety Symphony, 1952] - Estelle Parsons 13. Ringaroundarosie [Cut from Candide, 1956] - Arthur Siegel, Company