Cabaret
Louise Gold
was featured as Maria one of the Kit Kat Klub Girls, JAY/TER recording, recorded on: 29 & 30 June, 1 July, 2
November 2 & 3 December 1993 at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Catalogue
number: (Double CD) CDTER2
1210, (Highlights CD) Show CD021, (Highlights Cassette) SHOW
MC021, (Curtain Call CD) CURTCD009, (Music Theatre Hour CD) CDTEH6012, (Musicals Collection CD) MUS
C N08, (Musicals Collection Cassette) MUS
M N08.
Cast
M.C. - Jonathan Pryce
Fraulein Schneider - Judi Dench
Herr Shultz - Fred Ebb
Clifford Bradshaw - Gregg Edelman
Sally Bowles - Maria Friedman
Fraulein Kost - Caroline O’Connor
Ernst Ludwig - Marcus Allen Cooper
German Youth - John Mark Ainsley
Kit Kat Girls
Maria - Louise Gold
Lulu - Gay Soper
Rosie - Claire Moore
Fritzie - Jacqueline Dankworth
Frenchie - Clare Burt
Company:
Michael Cantwell, Nicolas Colicos, Kate
Copstick, Jackie Crawford, Dominic Curtis, Geoffrey
Dallamore, Lucy Dixon, Robert Fardell, Philip Griffiths,
Megan Kelly, Bruce Ogston, Howard
With The National Symphony Orchestra, Leader Perry Montague Mason, Conducted by John Owen Edwards
Production Team
Music by - John Kander
Lyrics by - Fred Ebb
Book by - Joe Masteroff
Based on the play by - John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood
Produced by - John Yap
Sleeve Notes - Rexton S Bunnet
Track Listing
Double CD:
CDTER2 1210
CD1/Act One
1. Willkommen -M.C., and company (Jonathan Pryce and Company)
2. So What
- Fraulein Schneider (Judi Dench)
3. Don’t Tell Mama - Sally and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
4. Telephone Dance - Clifford and Company (Gregg Edelman and Company)
5. Perfectly Marvellous - Sally and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
6. Two Ladies - M.C. Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce,
Louise Gold, and, Claire Moore)
7. It Couldn’t Please Me More - Herr Shultz and Fraulein Schneider (Fred Ebb and Judi
Dench)
8. Tomorrow Belongs To Me - German Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men)
9. Why Should I Wake Up -Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
10. Sitting Pretty - MC and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
11. Married
- Herr Shultz and Fraulein Shneider (Fred Ebb and Judi Dench)
12. Fruit Shop Dance - Orchestra
13. Meeskite
- Herry Shultz with Sally and Company (Fred Ebb with Maria Friedman
and Company)
14. Tomorrow Belongs To Me (Reprise) - Fraulein Kost, Ernest and
Company (Caroline O’Connor, Marcus Allen Cooper, and Company)
CD2/Act Two
1. Entr’acte
- Kit Kat Klub Band (The Orchestra)
2. Kick Line
- Orchestra
3. Married (Reprise) - Herr Shultz (Fred Ebb)
4. If You Could See Her - M.C. (Jonathan Pryce)
5. What Would You Do? - Fraulein Shcneider (Judi Dench)
6. Sally’s Revolt - Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
7. Cabaret - Sally (Maria Friedman)
8. Break Up
- Sally and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
9. Finale Ultimo - Clifford, M.C., Herr Shultz, Fraulein Schneider, Sally, and
Company (Gregg Edelman, Jonathan Pryce, Fred Ebb, Judi
Dench, Maria Friedman, and, Company)
10. Curtain Calls - Company
11. Exit Music - Orchestra
Bonus
Tracks - from the 1987 Broadway revival
12. Money ‘87’ - M.C. and Company (Jonathan Pryce and Company)
13. Don’t Go
- Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
14. I Don’t Care Much - M.C. (Jonathan Pryce)
Bonus
Tracks - from the Motion Picture
15. Mein Herr - Sally with The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
16. Maybe This Time - Sally (Maria Friedman)
17. Money Money - M.C. and Sally (Jonathan Pryce and Maria Friedman)
18. Tiller Girls - The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
Highlights
CD: Show CD021
1. Willkommen -M.C., and company (Jonathan Pryce and Company)
2.
Don’t
Tell Mama -
Sally and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
3.
The
Telephone song (Telephone Dance) - Clifford and Company (Gregg
Edelman and Company)
4.
Perfectly
Marvellous _
Sally and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
5.
Two
Ladies - M.C.
Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore)
6.
Tomorrow
Belongs To Me -
German Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men)
7.
Why
Should I Wake Up
-Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
8.
Maybe
This Time -
Sally (Maria Friedman)
9.
Sitting
Pretty - MC and
The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
10.
Money
Money - M.C. and
Sally (Jonathan Pryce and Maria Friedman)
11.
If
You Could See Her
- M.C. (Jonathan Pryce)
12.
Cabaret
- Sally (Maria
Friedman)
Curtain
Call CD: CURTCD009
1. Willkommen -M.C., and company (Jonathan Pryce and Company)
2.
Don’t
Tell Mama - Sally
and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
3.
The
Telephone song (Telephone Dance) - Clifford and Company (Gregg
Edelman and Company)
4.
Perfectly
Marvellous _
Sally and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
5.
Two
Ladies - M.C.
Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore)
6.
Tomorrow
Belongs To Me - German
Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men)
7.
Why
Should I Wake Up
-Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
8.
Maybe
This Time -
Sally (Maria Friedman)
9.
Sitting
Pretty - MC and
The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
10.
Money
Money - M.C. and
Sally (Jonathan Pryce and Maria Friedman)
11.
If
You Could See Her
- M.C. (Jonathan Pryce)
12.
Cabaret
- Sally (Maria
Friedman)
Music
Theatre Hour CD: CDTEH6012
1. Willkommen -M.C., and company (Jonathan Pryce and Company), 5:14
2. So What
- Fraulein Schneider (Judi Dench), 3:15
3. Mein Herr
- Sally with The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie, Fritzie, Texas and Frenchie) (Maria
Friedman, with: Louise Gold, Gay Soper, Claire Moore, Jacqueline
Dankworth, Caroline O’Connor, and, Clare Burt), 3:33
4. Perfectly Marvellous - Sally and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg
Edelman), 5:07
5. Two Ladies - M.C. Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce,
Louise Gold, and, Claire Moore), 2:34
6. It Couldn’t Please Me More - Herr Shultz and Fraulein Schneider (Fred Ebb and Judi
Dench), 3:29
7. Tomorrow Belongs To Me - German Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men),
2:05
8. Don’t Go
- Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman), 3:39
9. Money Money - M.C. and Sally (Jonathan Pryce and Maria Friedman),
3:03
10. Married
- Herr Shultz and Fraulein Shneider (Fred Ebb and Judi Dench),
2:41
11. Maybe This Time - Sally (Maria Friedman), 3:34
12. Meeskite
- Herry Shultz with Sally and Company (Fred Ebb with Maria Friedman
and Company), 4:41
13. If You Could See Her - M.C. (Jonathan Pryce), 2:45
14. What Would You Do? - Fraulein Shcneider (Judi Dench), 3:30
15. Sally’s Revolt - Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman),
1:05
16. Cabaret - Sally (Maria Friedman), 4:19
17. Finale (Finale Ultimo) - Clifford, M.C., Herr Shultz, Fraulein Schneider, Sally, and
Company (Gregg Edelman, Jonathan Pryce, Fred Ebb, Judi
Dench, Maria Friedman, and, Company), 4:43
Musicals
Collection CD: MUS C N08
1. Willkommen -M.C., and company
2.
Don’t
Tell Mama - Sally
and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
3.
The
Telephone song (Telephone Dance) - Clifford and Company (Gregg
Edelman and Company)
4.
Perfectly
Marvellous _
Sally and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
5.
Two
Ladies - M.C.
Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore)
6.
Tomorrow
Belongs To Me - German
Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men)
7.
Why
Should I Wake Up
-Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
8.
Maybe
This Time -
Sally (Maria Friedman)
9.
Sitting
Pretty - MC and
The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
10.
If
You Could See Her
- M.C. (Jonathan Pryce)
11.
Cabaret
- Sally (Maria
Friedman)
12. Finale (Finale Ultimo) - Clifford, M.C., Herr Shultz, Fraulein Schneider, Sally, and
Company (Gregg Edelman, Jonathan Pryce, Fred Ebb, Judi
Dench, Maria Friedman, and, Company)
The Highlights Cassette Show MC021, follows the same listing as the
Highlights
CD Show CD021,
with tracks 1 to 6 on Side A, and tracks 7 to 12 on Side B. The Curtain Call CD
CURTCD009,
follows exactly the same listing as the Highlights CD Show CD021. The
Musicals Collection Cassette MUS M N08 follows
the same listing as MUSICALS COLLECTION
CD MUS C N08,
with tracks1 to 6 on Side 1, and tracks 7 to 12 on Side 2.
Although in
the plot-line the girls in the club are meant to be native German speakers,
with the exception of Sally, who is supposed to be English-speaking. On this
recording it was actually the other way round. Technically the Swiss-born Maria
Friedman’s first language is German. Of the other girls: Jacqueline
Dankworth, Louise Gold, Claire Moore, and, Gay Soper
are English born and bred; while Caroline O’Connor was born in England
but raised in Australia. Clare Burt is probably English too, but the
webmaster isn’t sure. .
Sally Bowles
was really based on a Scottish girl, Jean Ross, she later married Claude
Cockburn, who incidentally was a supporter of Unity
Theatre.
In 1996 Clare
Burt, heard here as one of the Kit Kat Club Girls. played Sally Bowles in a
BBC Radio 2 broadcast of Cabaret.
Louise Gold, Claire Moore, and, Jonathan Pryce’s
recording of Two Ladies also features on Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals .. Clare Burt and Howard
Louise Gold, Claire Moore, and, Jonathan Pryce’s recording of Two
Ladies also features The Great Musicals -
Wonderful Tales. Caroline O’Connor
also features on that album.
An excerpt of Maria
Friedman and Jonathan Pryce’s recording of Money Money
managed to find its way onto The History
Of The Musical
Wikcommen from this recording features on Centre Stage Showtime!. Maria Friedman also features on that
album.
Wilkommen from this recording features on Magic Of The Musicals. Megan Kelly, and, Howard
Wilkommen from this recording features on Let’s Go On With The Show – Hit Songs From
The West End & Broadway.
Maria Friedman, Louise Gold, Claire Moore, and, Jonathan Pryce singing: Two Ladies, Money Money, and, Cabaret
from this recording feature on 100 Hits
Musicals. Jacqueline Dankworth, Gregg Edelman, and, Caroline O’Connor also feature on that
album.
The
Telephone Song from this
recording features on The Great
Musicals - From Broadway to Hollywood.
Judi Dench had previously directed The Boys From Syracuse .
John Kander and Fred Ebb also wrote
Nicolas
Colicos, Dominic Curtis, Gregg
Edelman, Robert Fardell, Louise Gold, Philip Griffiths,
Bruce Ogston and Gareth Snook with the NSO Ensemble conducted
by John Owen Edwards all appear on the JAY/TER recording of On The Town, produced by John Yap with sleeve
notes by Rexton S Bunnet.
Louise Gold, Gregg Edelman, Nicolas Colicos and Gareth Snook, with: Dominic
Curtis, Robert Fardell, and, Bruce Ogston and also the NSO
conducted by John Owen Edwards also sang on JAY/TER recording of Anything Goes (Recording). - Website Recommended Album
Louise Gold, Maria Friedman, Jacqueline Dankworth,
Louise Gold had previously sung under the musical direction
of John Owen Edwards in Metropolitan
Mikado
Louise Gold and Gay Soper had previously sung under
the musical direction of John Owen Edwards in a concert of highlights
from Ratepayers'
Iolanthe & Metropolitan Mikado
Louise Gold and Gay Soper had previously appeared
together in a one night concert staging of a musical called The Soap Opera
Louise Gold, Maria Friedman, and, Claire Moore
had previously sung together in A Time To
Start Living and Kids At Heart.
Lucy Dixon and Dawn Spence also appeared in Kids At Heart.
Maria
Friedman, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore may have appeared together in Will-Aid
Louise Gold and Maria Friedman also appeared together
in Sondheim At The Barbican.
Louise Gold and Bruce Ogston appeared in Let ‘Em Eat Cake
Louise Gold and Nicolas Colicos went on to appear in Mamma Mia.
Louise Gold,
Louise Gold and
Louise Gold
and Philip Griffiths had
previously appeared in Anything Goes (Stage
Show).
Judi Dench, and, Claire Moore may have appeared in Comedy Tonight
John Owen Edwards and the NSO
also feature on some of the recordings The Best Of Broadway Musicals and Great Duets From The Musicals,
produced by John Yap, with Sleeve notes by Rexton S Bunnet.
The NSO
also feature on Stop The World I
Want To Get Off produced by John Yap with sleeve notes by Rexton
S Bunnet.
Clare Burt, Gregg Edelman, and the NSO
conducted by John Owen Edwards also feature on: Cole Porter - Night And Day
Judi Dench and Gay Soper went on to appear in Regents Park 70th Anniversary Gala,
and, Side By Side By Sondheim 30th
Anniversary Gala.
Maria
Friedman, Jonathan Pryce, Caroline
O’Connor, Howard
Gay Soper went on to appear at Dress Circle Grand Reopening, and, Shopping With The Stars 2009.
Sleeve note
writer Rexton S Bunnet was also the researcher for Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue.
Jonathan
Pryce went on to appear on
television on A Week In The West End.
Clare Burt, Gregg Edelman,. Claire Moore, and,
Caroline O’Connor can also be heard on Simply
Musicals, which also features the NSO conducted by John Owen
Edwards.
Clare Burt along with The
National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards can also be heard on The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century.
Clare Burt has gone on to appear in A Love
Letter To Dan.
Lucy Dixon, and, Howard
The NSO conducted by John Owen Edwards feature on The
Great Musicals – Glamour And Majesty
Caroline O’Connor’s recording credits include The Great Musicals – Dashing Heroes,
Blushing Maidens, and. The Best Of
The Musicals, both of which also feature The National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards.
Clare Burt, Marcus Allen Cooper, Jacqueline Dankworth, Gregg Edelman, and, Louise Gold’s recording credits include
The Great Musicals – Laughter And Tears;
This also features The National Symphony
Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards.
Clare Burt, Gareth Snook, Jacqueline Dankworth, Claire Moore, Philip Griffiths, Dawn Spence, Bruce Ogston, and, Robert Fardell may have taken part in Thing A Thon, which Maria Friedman was involved with.
Dawn Spence took part in CLIC’s 18th Birthday Celebration.
Review
by
Up until now doing a complete version of Cabaret has been something of an impossible task, mainly because the stage and film versions of the all important role of Sally Bowles are musically so different. On this recording, however, Maria Friedman is the perfect person to rise to the challenge and succeeds in combining the vulnerable comedy and ‘English’ wit of the stage character a la Jill Howarth or Jane Horrocks in Don’t Tell Mama with the sheer power of Liza Minnelli in Mein Herr, while making the title song something all her own. If you want to have just one recording then this is overall the best one to go for.
That said, if you’re keen on Kurt Weill, or From Russia With Love then you should go for the original Broadway Cast album, because of it featuring the incomparable Lotte Lenya as Fraulein Schneider. Lotte Lenya is a hard act to follow, and good though she is, Judi Dench does not quite manage it. It is a highlight, however, that Judi Dench gets to duet with the show’s lyricist Fred Ebb, who acquits himself well enough on Meeskite,
The original production of Cabaret may have billed Schneider and Shultz (Lotte Lenya and Jack Gilford) as the stars, but on this recording it is The M.C., Sally, and the Kit Kat Klub girls who are the stars of the album. Jonathan Pryce does an excellent job as the M.C., proving to be well up making his own a role made famous first by Joel Grey and later by Alan Cummings. As for, the Arts Educational trained, Maria Friedman the role might have been written for her (although of course it wasn’t), it suits her so well; in much the same way that the lead on The Musicals Collection’s Anything Goes suits (another Arts Educational trained performer) Louise Gold. Indeed the similarity does not end there, for that CD benefited, as indeed does this, from having the superb back-up of the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by the ever wonderful John Owen Edwards.
This recording of Cabaret also boasts an
extraordinary group of Kit Kat Klub
Girls to back Maria Friedman, namely: Louise Gold, Gay Soper,
Claire Moore, Jacqueline Dankworth, Caroline O’Connor and Clare
Burt, each of whom is a notable
All in all a wonderful studio cast album, with a first rate cast, lead by “the great and the good” Maria Friedman (as Sheridan Morely is wont to call her), and a wonderful orchestra, under John Owen-Edwards’s excellent direction. Definitely well worth having if you want a good recording of Cabaret.
Critics Comments
“He is helped by an unusually strong line-up of metallic Kit Kat Girls
(including Louise Gold, Jacqueline Dankworth and Clare Burt) and by Don
Walker’s acrid orchestration of John Kander’s score.” BBC Music Magazine, 16 April
2009.
Links about Cabaret
JAY
Records page for this recording: http://www.jayrecords.com/jay/site/pages/recordings/cabaret/recording.htm
About Maria page for Cabaret: http://www.aboutmaria.com/cabaret.html
Joseph
Molnar’s review of this
recording: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/jan9926.html
Joseph
Molnar’s account of recent
recordings Kander & Ebb musicals: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/feb2.html
Cast Album.org database’s entry for this recording: http://www.castalbums.org/recordings/2904
FYE.Com’s entry for the album: http://www.fye.com/Cabaret-Front-Page_stcVVproductId1083902VVcatId455366VVviewprod.htm
BBC Music Magazine’s review of the album: http://www.bbcmusicmagazine.com/review/john-kander-fred-ebb-0,
also mentioned on http://www.bbcmusicmagazine.com/review/jerome-moross-john-latouche
