Babes in Arms
This is the first recording of the original score from one of Broadway's gems. “My Funny Valentine”, “The Lady Is A Tramp”, “Johnny One Note”, and “I Wish I Were In Love Again” all came from this show (when was the last time you saw a Broadway show with four hit tunes!), an affectionate and mildly satiric look at a fictional town's adolescent population, abandoned by their parents, who are forced to fend for themselves. More than financial and amorous matters concerned them: These kids wrestled…
New York City Opera, Erie Mills, David Eisler, John Lankston, Joyce Castle, Scott Reeve, Jack Harrold, James Billings, Maris Clement, New York City Opera Chorus, New York City Opera Orchestra, John Mauceri, Harold Prince, Leonard Bernstein, Hugh Wheeler, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche
CandideLeonard Bernstein's musical adaptation of Candide started life in 1956 as a musical comedy, became an operetta, was heard several times in concert form, and if not home to roost once and for all in this recorded version, is certainly being cultivated in the place many felt it belonged from the very beginning-the opera house. By the time Candide opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on December 1, 1956, this question was clarified somewhat by changing the billing from "a musical" to "a co…