Zorba CD

MUSIC

SOUNDTRACKS & SCORES

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Take That Look Off Your Face (Overture) ~ Original Broadway Cast

2. Let Me Finish ~ Original Broadway Cast

3. So Much To Do In New York ~ Original Broadway Cast

4. First Letter Home ~ Original Broadway Cast

5. English Girls ~ Original Broadway Cast

6. Capped Teeth And Caesar Salad ~ Original Broadway Cast

7. You Made Me Think You Were In Love ~ Original Broadway Cast

8. Capped Teeth And Caeser Salad (Reprise) ~ Original Broadway Cast

9. So Much To Do In New York (II) ~ Original Broadway Cast

10. Second Letter Home ~ Original Broadway Cast

11. Unexpected Song ~ Original Broadway Cast

12. Come Back With The Same Look In Your Eyes ~ Original Broadway Cast

13. Take That Look Off Your Face (Reprise) ~ Original Broadway Cast

14. Tell Me On A Sunday ~ Original Broadway Cast

15. I Love New York: So Much To Do In New York (III) ~ Original Broadway Cast

16. Married Man ~ Original Broadway Cast

17. Third Letter Home ~ Original Broadway Cast

18. Nothing Like You've Ever Known ~ Original Broadway Cast

19. Finale: Let Me Finish (Reprise) / What Have I Done? / Take That Look Off Your Face (Reprise) ~ Original Broadway Cast

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Principal cast includes: Bernadette Peters, Christopher D'Amboise, Charlotte D'Amboise, Denise Faye, Gen Horiuchi, Gregory Mitchell, Cynthia Onrubia, Mary Ellen Stuart, Scott Wise, Gregg Burge.
	Personnel includes: John Mauceri (conductor).
	Producers: Richard Maltby, Jr., Peter Martins.
	Recorded in RCA's Studios C and D from September to October 1985. Includes liner notes by Richard Maltby, Jr.
	All music written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. All lyrics written by Don Black.
	Personnel: Gen Horiuchi, Mary Ellen Stuart, Charlotte d'Amboise, Christopher d'Amboise, Gregg Burge, Gregory Mitchell, Cynthia Onrubia, Denise Faye, Scott Wise (vocals, dancer); Bernadette Peters (vocals).
	Liner Note Author: Richard Maltby.
	Recording information: RCA Studios C & D (09/1985-10/1985).
	Photographers: Michael Le Poer Trench; Kenneth Duncan.
	The material on this album began life as a one-character, sung-through television musical called Tell Me on a Sunday, broadcast by the BBC in January 1980. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black's song cycle told the story of Emma, an English hat maker who moves to New York and has romantic encounters with four men -- the musician she goes over for, a movie producer from Los Angeles, a software salesman from Nebraska, and a married executive. In 1982, it was turned into a stage musical by combining it with a ballet set to Lloyd Webber's variations on Paganini's composition for cello and orchestra, "A-minor Caprice," under the name Song and Dance, with Marti Webb, who had appeared in the TV version, again starring. The show ran for two-and-a-half years in London. Notwithstanding that success, the show was revised extensively for the Broadway production, with Richard Maltby, Jr. brought in to direct and, by his estimate, rewrite nearly two-thirds of the lyrics. The resulting Song & Dance opened on Broadway on September 18, 1985, and ran 474 performances. Bernadette Peters starred, and she won a Tony Award for her performance. This original Broadway cast album (the cast consisting solely of Peters) presents the whole of the first act, Tell Me on a Sunday, but none of the instrumental music from the second act, and is thus subtitled The Songs. Peters, in an uncertain British accent, is typically engaging, and Lloyd Webber's music is his usual mixture of light pop/rock and light opera. Listeners will hear elements reminiscent of Jesus Christ Superstar and Cats. But the story lacks dramatic purpose, and its episodic nature is not aided by the recitative that makes up most of the musical passages, few of which rise to the name of "song." The notable exceptions are "Unexpected Song" and "Tell Me on a Sunday," two attractive ballads that have found a life outside the show. But they are not enough to make this more than minor Lloyd Webber. (The album contains one song, "Nothing Like You've Ever Known," that was cut from the stage production.) ~ William Ruhlmann
Engineer: Joaquin J. Lopes; Paul Goodman

Technical Info

	Release Date : 07/18/1995
	Original Release Date : 1985
	Catalog ID : 68264
	Label : RCA Victor
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00090266826421

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Zorba (1985)

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