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On the Town [Original Broadway Cast]

Original Cast Recording - CD

On the Town Original Cast Recording CD
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  • Artist: Original Cast Recording
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1998
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 074646053829
  • Item Number: 64605382
  • Release date: 09/15/1998
  • 1. Opening: New York, New York
  • 2. Come Up to My Place (Taxi Number)
  • 3. Carried Away
  • 4. Lonely Town
  • 5. Carnegie Hall (Do-Do-Re-Do)
  • 6. I Can Cook Too
  • 7. Lucky to Be Me
  • 8. Dance: Times Square
  • 9. Nightclub Sequence
  • 10. I Understand
  • 11. Ballet: The Imaginary Coney Island
  • 12. Some Other Time
  • 13. Dance: The Real Coney Island
  • 14. Overture [Bonus Track]
  • 15. The Great Lover [Dance Episode][Bonus Track]
  • 16. Lonely Town: Pas de Deux [Dance Episode][Bonus Track]
  • 17. Times Square: 1944 [Bonus Track]
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On the Town [Original Broadway Cast] by Original Cast Recording on CD


The Broadway musical On the Town, with songs by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green, opened on December 28, 1944, and was greeted with the same enthusiasm that had met its predecessor, Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free. Bernstein had expanded upon his music and brought in lyricists Comden and Green to tell the story of three sailors on leave for a day in New York City. Comden and Green also were in the cast, along with Nancy Walker, and Decca Records, the pioneer of the original Broadway cast album, brought them into the recording studio over the course of 1945 to produce this three-disc, six-track album of selections from the score. Mary Martin, another Broadway star, but not one featured in On the Town, was employed to sing two ballads that, in the show, were handled by John Battles! So, this was hardly a full-fledged recording of the score by the original performers, but rather an incomplete approximation. Excellent songs such as the risque "Come Up to My Place" and the wistful "Some Other Time" were missing, along with several of the major cast members. But what was included was terrific: Comden and Green camping their way through "I Get Carried Away," Walker still managing to be somewhat risque with "I Can Cook Too," and a chorus rendering the "New York, New York" theme in "On the Town Opening." ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
  • Artist: Original Cast Recording
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 1998
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 074646053829
  • Item Number: 64605382
  • Release date: 09/15/1998
  • Label: Sony Music Distribution
  • Genre: Stage & Screen
  • Style: Show Tunes, Cast Recordings, Musicals
  • Album Time: 74:33

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  • On the Town Original Cast Recording CD
On the Town Original Cast Recording CD