On The Town
Louise Gold was featured as the Cabaret singers, Jay/TER recording, recorded on 9, 10 & 11
May 1995 at Abbey Road Studios.
Catalogue
number: CDTER2 1217
Cast
Gabey - Ethan Freeman
Chip - Gregg Edelman
Ozzie - Tim Flavin
Hildy - Kim Criswell
Claire - Judy Kaye
Ivy - Tinuke Olafimihan
Dily - Valerie Masterston
Pitkin -
Rajah Bimney - Matt Zimmerman
Dolores/Cabaret Singer - Louise Gold
Workman 1 -
Workman 2/Announcer - Nicolas Colicos
Workman 3 - David Firth
Announcer - Nicolas Colicos
Andy/Sailor 1 - Simon Masterson-Smith
Tom/Sailor 2 - Richard Mitchell
Sailor 3 - Robert Fardell
Tram Conductor - David Green
Chorus:
Karen Broughton, Nicolas Colicos, Dominic Curtis, Robert Fardell, David Firth, Carol Lesley Green, Phillip Griffiths, Peter Hickmet, Liza Hobbs, Gaynor Keeble, Julie Livesey, Lara Marland, Richard Mitchell, Katrina Murphy, Martin Nelson, Bruce Ogston, Shirley Pilgrim, Jane Powell, Denise Silvey, Gareth Snook, Gareth Vaughan and Hilary Weston
With The National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards
Production Team
Music - Leonard Bernstein
Book and Lyrics - Betty Comden and Adolph Green
from an idea by Jerome Robbins
Produced by John Yap
Sleeve notes - Rexton S Bunnet
Track Listing
CD1/Act1
1.Overture
-Orchestra
2. Opening /
3. Miss Turnstiles - Orchestra, Announcer, Ivy (Nicolas Colicos and Tinuke Olafimihan)
4. Come Up To My Place - Hildy, Chip (Kim Criswell and Gregg Edelman)
5. Carried Away - Claire, Ozzie (Judy Kaye and Tim Flavin)
6. Lonely Town - Gabey (Ethan Freeman)
7. High School Girls (Lonely Town Pas De Deux) - Orchestra
8. Lonely Town (Choral) - Gabey, Chorus - Ethan
Freeman
9. Carnegie Hall Pavane - Ivy, Dilly, Chorus (Tinuke Olafimihan and Valerie Masterson)
10. I Can Cook Too - Hildy (Kim Criswell)
11. Lucky To Be Me - Gabey, Chorus (Ethan Freeman)
12.
CD2/Act2
1. Entr'acte -
Orchestra
2. So Long Baby - Girls
3.
I Wish I Was Dead (Night Club Sequence) - Cabaret Singers (Louise
Gold), with Heckling from Hildy (Kim Criswell)
4. Ya Got Me - Hildy, Ozzie, Chip, Claire (Kim Criswell, Tim Flavin, Gregg Edelman and Judy Kaye)
5. Slam Bang Blues - Orchestra
6. Pitkin's Song - Pitkin (Michael Bauer)
7.
Subway Ride / Imaginary
8. The Great Lover Display's Himself (Pas De Deux) - Orchestra
9. Some Other Time - Claire, Hildy, Ozzie, Chip, Subway Conductor (Judy Kaye, Kim Criswell, Tim Flavin, Gregg Edelman and David Green)
10.
The Real
11. Finale Act II - Ozzie, Gabey, Chip, Hildy, Claire, Ivy, Three New Sailors, Chorus (Tim Flavin, Ethan Freeman, Gregg Edelman, Kim Criswell, Judy Kaye, Tinuke Olafimihan, Simon Masterson-Smith, Richard Mitchell and Robert Fardell)
12. Exit Music - Orchesta
13. Gabey's Coming - Ozzie, Chip, Chorus (Tim Flavin and Gregg Edelman)
Kim Criswell, Ethan Freeman, Valerie Masterson, and, Tinuke
Olafimihan, along with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by
John Owen Edwards can be heard on The Great Musicals - Wonderful Tales, this
includes the version of Lucky To Be Me from this album.
David Firth and Louise Gold had previously appeared together in: Love Life, they went on to appear together in Man Of La Mancha
Louise Gold and Gareth Snook had previously appeared together in Merrily We Roll Along (Stage Production) and on that cast’s Merrily We Roll Along (Recording).
David Firth, Louise Gold and Gareth Snook had previously appeared together in Assassins.
David Firth, Louise Gold, Liza Hobbs and Richard Mitchell had previously appeared together under the musical direction of John Owen Edwards in The Metropolitan Mikado.
David Firth, Louise Gold, and Liza Hobbs, under the musical direction of John Owen Edwards had previously appeared together in a concert of highlights from Ratepayers' Iolanthe & Metropolitan Mikado
Kim Criswell, Louise Gold, Matt Zimmerman and Bruce Ogston had previously recorded a radio production of Let ‘Em Eat Cake together.
Kim Criswell went on create her role of Hildy in a Concert production at The Royal Festival Hall in October 2000.
Kim Criswell and Louise Gold went on to Co-Star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Louise Gold and Nicolas Colicos went on to appear in Mamma Mia.
Louise Gold and Ethan Freeman were later united in One Touch of Venus.
Tim Flavin and Louise Gold had previously appeared in Broadway To Brighton
Louise Gold, Gregg Edelman Katrina Murphy, Matt Zimmerman, Nicolas Colicos, Simon Masterson-Smith and Gareth Snook, with: Karen Broughton, Dominic Curtis, Robert Fardell, David Firth, Carol Lesley Green, Philip Griffiths, Liza Hobbs,Gaynor Keeble, Julie Livesey, Lara Marland, Robert Mitchell, Martin Nelson, Bruce Ogston, Shirley Pilgrim, Jane Powell, Denise Silvey, Gareth Vaughan, and, Hilary Weston also recorded Anything Goes (recording) - Website Recommended Album. for JAY/TER, with the NSO Ensemble under the direction of John Owen-Edwards.
Stop Press! (January 2004): Anything Goes (Recording) - (CD Music Theatre Hour) CDTEH6011 has gone on general release - the webmaster says that: if you
Louise Gold and Matt Zimmerman had previously co-starred in a production of Anything Goes
Louise Gold and Katrina Murphy also recorded Stop The World I Want To Get Off for JAY/TER with the NSO Ensemble.
Ethan Freeman, Judy Kaye, and, Valarie Masterson all feature on various tracks on JAY/TER’s The Best Of Broadway Musicals as do The NSO Ensemble conducted by John Owen-Edwards.
Kim
Criswell, Tim
Flavin, Ethan Freeman, David Green, Valerie Masterson,
Katrina Murphy, Tinuke Olafimihan with the NSO conducted
by John Owen Edwards are also featured on Encore The Very
Best From The Musicals,
for which Rexton S Bunnet also did the sleeve notes.
Gregg Edelman, Ethan Freeman, Valerie Masterson, Katrina Murphy, and, Tinuke Olafimihan with the NSO conducted by John Owen-Edwards are also featured on Great Duets From The Musicals for which Rexton S Bunnet also did the sleeve notes.
Nicolas Colicos, Dominic Curtis,
Gregg Edelman, Robert Fardell, Louise Gold, Philip
Griffiths, Bruce Ogston and Gareth Snook with the NSO
conducted by John Owen Edwards also recorded JAY/TER’s Cabaret produced by
John Yap.
Gregg
Edelman, Louise Gold, Simon
Masterson-Smith, Katrina Murphy, and, Matt Zimmerman, with
the NSO conducted by John Owen Edwards all feature on the Readers
Digest album Cole Porter - Night
And Day
Kim
Criswell, Tim Flavin, Ethan
Freeman, Valerie Masterson, Tinuke Olafimihan, Matt
Zimmerman and The National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John
Owen Edwards also feature on The
History Of The Musical
Kim
Criswell, Gregg Edelman, Katrina
Murphy, and, Tinuke Olafimihan can also be heard on Simply Musicals, which also features the NSO
conducted by John Owen Edwards.
Sleeve note
writer Rexton S Bunnet was also the researcher for Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue
Tim Flavin’s television credits include A Week In The
West End.
Kim
Criswell, Ethan Freeman, Simon
Masterson-Smith, Tinuke Olafimihan, and, Matt Zimmerman,
along with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards can also be heard on The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century.
Kim Criswell, Valerie Masterson, and, Katrina Murphy, along with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted
by John Owen Edwards can also be
heard on The Great Musicals – Glamour And
Majesty.
Valerie Masterson, and, Tinuke
Olafimihan’s recording credits include Centre
Stage Showtime!, which also featured The
National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards.
Ethan Freeman, and, Katrina Murphy’s
recording credits include The
Great Musicals – Dashing Heroes, Blushing Maidens; which also featured The National Symphony Orchestra
conducted by John Owen Edwards.
Kim Criswell, Gregg Edelman, and, Valerie Masterson’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals – Laughter And
Tears; which also featured The
National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards.
Kim Criswell, Tim Flavin, Valerie Masterson, and, Katrina Murphy’s recording credits
include Magic Of The Musicals; which
also featured the National Symphony
Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards.
Kim Criswell, and, Katrina Murphy’s
recording credits include The Best Of
The Musicals, which also featured the National
Symphony Orchestra conducted by John
Owen Edwards.
Gareth Snook, Philip Griffiths, Liza Hobbs, Bruce Ogston, and, Robert Fardell may have taken part in Thing A Thon.
Kim
Criswell, Gregg Edelman, Ethan Freeman, Judy Kaye, Valerie Masterson,
and, Tinuke Olafimihan can also be
heard on 100
Hits Musicals; which also featured The
National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards.
Valerie Masterson, and, Tinuke
Olafimihan can also be heard on Let’s
Go On With The Show – Hit Songs From The West End & Broadway;
accompanied by The National Symphony
Orchestra with maestro John Owen
Edwards.
Kim Criswell, Gregg Edelman, David Green, Katrina Murphy, and, Tinuke
Olafimihan’s recording credits include The Great Musicals - From Broadway to
Hollywood; which also involved The
National Symphony Orchestra, with maestro John Owen Edwards.
Nicolas
Colicos appeared in Chicago & Company.
A review of this CD appeared in Issue 28, September 1997, of Words And Music, to read that review, please click here. The reviewer seems to have been rather taken by Kim Criswell's performance of I Can Cook Too.
When listening to On The Town it should perhaps be remembered that it is one of those shows (like many of these old musicals) that is very much of era in which it was written.
Critics Comments
. “Louise Gold is a riot as a chanteuse who sings a
depressing song in the night club scene where Gabey's pals are trying to cheer
him up.” Joseph Molnar, Sound Advice column, TALKN’ BROADWAY, April 1999
“The leads are more than
ably supported by an exemplary ensemble of vocal talent which includes Louise
Gold, Matt Zimmerman,
Links about On The Town
Jay Records’s page for this recording: http://www.jayrecords.com/jay/site/pages/recordings/onthetown/recording.htm
Joseph
Molnar’s review of this
recording: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/apr6.html
Cast album.org database’s entry for this album: http://www.castalbums.org/recordings/2086
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