Description
DESCRIPTION
Could Sweet Bye and Bye be the greatest theatre score no one's ever heard? It certainly boasts an amazing pedigree: music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by Ogden Nash, a book by S. J. Perelman and Al Hirschfeld. It crashed and burned during it's pre-Broadway tryout in 1946 for various reasons - some conceptual, some creative, some casting-related - but at the end of the day what's left is a glorious collection of songs: restlessly inventive, playful and romantic - perhaps Vernon Duke's finest theatrical achievement. A futuristic farce sending up big business, telecommunications, robotics, space travel, self-help groups and even the traditions of courtship and matrimony, at heart Sweet Bye and Bye is a simple love story with some of the most beautiful ballads Broadway had ever heard. The world premiere recording of this Broadway-musical-that-never-was has been lovingly restored from Duke and Nash's original manuscripts by producer Tommy Krasker and orchestrator Jason Carr. With conductor Eric Stern leading the orchestra, and featuring a cast of Broadway and recording veterans - including Danny Burstein, Philip Chaffin, Jim Stanek, Heidi Blickenstaff, Graham Rowat, Michele Ragusa, Telly Leung, Sara Jean Ford and, in the starring role originated by Dolores Gray, Marin Mazzie - Sweet Bye and Bye is perhaps the ultimate jewel in the crown of PS Classics' forgotten musicals series.
TRACK CREDITS
-1.1 Prologue ^1.2 Sweet Bye and Bye ^1.3 Scientists Scene ^1.4 Born Too Late ^1.5 Ham That I Am ^1.6 Solomon at Futurosy ^1.7 Yes
-Yes ^1.8 As You Were Saying ^1.9 Diana ^1.10 Factory Ballet ^1.11 Too Enchanting ^1.12 I Says to Him ^1.13 Let's Be Young ^1.14 Diana Says Goodbye ^1.15 Round About ^1.16 Executives Anonymous ^1.17 Knife's Recitative ^1.18 Our Parents Forgot to Get Married ^1.19 My Broker Told Me So ^1.20 Just Like a Man ^1.21 Utility Polka ^1.22 It's Good ^1.23 Where Is Bundy? ^1.24 The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull ^1.25 Eskimo Bacchante ^1.26 Sweet Bye and Bye (Reprise)
