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Milk and Honey [Bonus Track]

Original Broadway Cast - CD

Milk and Honey Original Broadway Cast CD
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  • Artist: Original Broadway Cast
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 021471911428
  • Item Number: 285042X
  • Release date: 06/24/2008
  • 1. Overture
  • 2. Shalom
  • 3. Independence Day Hora
  • 4. Milk And Honey
  • 5. There's No Reason In The World
  • 6. Chin Up, Ladies
  • 7. That Was Yesterday
  • 8. Let's Not Waste A Moment
  • 9. The Wedding
  • 10. Like A Young Man
  • 11. I Will Follow You
  • 12. Hymn To Hymie
  • 13. As Simple As That
  • 14. Finale
  • 15. Shalom
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Milk and Honey [Bonus Track] by Original Broadway Cast on CD


The 1961 Broadway musical Milk and Honey is remembered as the first show to be set in Israel, but it is more significant in theater history for marking composer Jerry Herman's Broadway debut. Never revived on Broadway (there was a 59-performance Off-Broadway production by the American Jewish Theatre in 1994), it is most intriguing 47 years later in 2008 -- the date of this reissue of the cast recording -- for the insights it gives into Herman's style. It is easy to hear in the lively march "Chin Up, Ladies" and the comic ballad "Hymn to Hymie," both written for Yiddish theater star Molly Picon in a supporting role, the seeds of similar material that would turn up in Herman's next Broadway show, the far more successful Hello, Dolly! Think of "Before the Parade Passes By" and Dolly's entreaties to her dead husband Ephraim, not far removed from Clara's (Picon's character) addresses to her dead husband Hymie. And then there's "Let's Not Waste a Moment," which seems like an early draft of "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello, Dolly! There is no direct equivalent for "Hello, Dolly!" itself, but there is a song that clearly was intended to be the hit of the show, "Shalom." (In this reissue, Robert Goulet's cover of the song has been added as a bonus track.) The problem with the score, as with the show, is that as a whole it simply isn't as lively as its best material can be. Herman is tied down to writing operatic ballad material for the two leads, Robert Weede (of The Most Happy Fella fame) and Mimi Benzell, rather than more for Picon. He does so, but not to anyone's benefit, making this score one for musical theater fans who want to know what he did before Hello, Dolly! Kenneth Jones' newly conducted interview with the composer, included in the CD booklet, is informative. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
  • Artist: Original Broadway Cast
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 021471911428
  • Item Number: 285042X
  • Release date: 06/24/2008
  • Label: Sony Music Distribution
  • Genre: Stage & Screen, Classical, Stage & Screen, Classical
  • Style: Show Tunes, Cast Recordings, Show/Musical, Contemporary, Show Tunes, Cast Recordings, Show/Musical, Contemporary
  • Album Time: 45:50

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  • Milk and Honey Original Broadway Cast CD
Milk and Honey Original Broadway Cast CD