A BROADWAY MUSICAL
Composer: Charles
Strouse
Lyricist: Lee Adams
Opened: December 21, 1978,
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 1
Lawyers:
1. Unsung Musicals II, CD/Varese
Sarabande VSD-5564 (Gregory Jbarra and Lee Wilkof with musical direction by
Lanny Meyers)
Let Me Sing My Song (same
music as "What Became Of Me" in the London production of GOLDEN BOY and "Dance
A Little Closer" in DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER):
For recordings of "Dance A Little Closer" see:
1. Dance A Little Closer
Composer's Demo (Charles Strouse)
2. The Lorna Dallas Album, CAS/ Horatio
Nelson Records CSIV 1115 (Lorna Dallas with orchestra conducted by Harry
Rabinowitz)
3. Somebody's Girl, CAS/TER VIP ZC VIR 83004 (Liz Robertson with
the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Chris Walker) [reissued on The
Musicality Of Strouse, CD/JAY CDJAZ 9014]
4. Dance A Little Closer, CD/TER
CDTER 1174 (Len Cariou, Liz Robertson, and Guests with orchestra directed by
Peter Howard)
5. Dance A Little Closer, CD/TER CDTER 1174 (Len Cariou, Liz
Robertson, and Company with orchestra directed by Peter Howard)
6. An
Evening With Alan Jay Lerner, CD/First Night OCR CD12 (Full Company with the
United Kingdom Symphony Orchestra conducted by Chris Walker) [also
CD/Relativity/ First Night 88561-8261-2]
7. Lerner In Love: The Lyrics Of
Alan Jay Lerner, CD/LML Music LML-CD 193 (Barbara Brussell with musical
direction by Tedd Firth)
8. Lerner, Loewe, Lane & Friends, CD/Varese
Sarabande VSD2-5917 (Guy Haines, Mary Cadorette, and Mary Jo Mecca with musical
direction by Ron Abel)
9. You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile: Jason
Graae Sings Charles Strouse, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5711 (Jason Graae with
musical direction by Brad Ellis)
10. It Takes Two, CD/Original Cast 9522
(Bill Wright)
11. Big Time, CD/Mile Marker Music 4807 (Bobby Nesbitt)
12.
Coming Home, CD/Park 78 (Gerald Kenny)
Older And Wiser (cut; originally cut from BYE BYE BIRDIE and
also used in MEDIUM RARE):
1. 45/Columbia 4-41634 (Eileen
Rodgers with orchestra conducted by Frank De Vol) [reissued on The Best Of
Eileen Rodgers, CD/Collectors' Choice Music 379]
2. Lost In Boston III,
CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5563 (Michelle Pawk and Tammy Minoff with music
direction by Tom Fay)
Smashing, New York Times (cut from
APPLAUSE):
1. Applause Composer Demo
(Charles Strouse, piano and voice) [reissued on Charles Sings Strouse, CD/PS
Classics PS-646; Applause, CD/Decca Broadway 012 159 404-2 (bonus track)]
2.
Unsung Musicals II, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5564 (Jason Graae with musical
direction by Lanny Meyers)
3. Back To Before, CD/JAY CDJAY1317 (Kim Criswell
with orchestra conducted by Martin Yates)
Together (same music as "Dumb Dog" in the film
ANNIE):
For recordings of "Dumb Dog" see:
1. Annie, Columbia (S) JS 38000
(Aileen Quinn with orchestra conducted by Ralph Burns) [reissued as CD/Columbia
CK 38000]
2. Annie, CBS (S) 25192 - CB 271 (German soundtrack cast with
orchestra conducted by Ralph Burns)
3. Annie, CBS (S) 25194 (Italian
soundtrack cast with orchestra conducted by Ralph Burns)
4. Annie, CBS (S)
***** (Spanish soundtrack cast with orchestra conducted by Ralph Burns)
Unrecorded
Material:
Be Like A Basketball And Bounce
Right Back (cut)
Broadway, Broadway
A Broadway Musical
Dancing (not
used)
Don't Tell Me
Goin' To Broadway (Disco) (cut)
Here In The
Playbill (cut)
I Hurry Home To You
It's Time For A Cheer-Up Song
I've
Been In Those Shoes (cut)
Jokes (cut)
Just Tell Me What You Want (unused;
possibly the same as the title song for the film JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU
WANT)
Love Song (cut; originally used in MEDIUM RARE)
The 1934 Hot
Chocolate Jazz Babies Revue
Opening Night (cut)
Out-A-Town (cut)
Smoke
And Fire
What You Go Through
Who Am I? (cut)
Who Says You Always Have
To Be Happy? (cut)
Why Does It Have To Be Funny? (unused)
A Wrong Song
(cut)
Yenta Power
You Gotta Have Dancing
You Only Get Once Chance
(cut)