FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Composer: Glenn
Paxton
Lyricists: Robert Goldman and George David Weiss
Opened: March 19, 1959, Alvin Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 84
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast recording are noted below.
Goodbye, Kind Sir, Goodbye (cut):
1. 45/Columbia 4-41343
(Johnny Desmond with orchestra and chorus conducted by Glenn
Osser)
I Feel Sorry For The Boy (female
version of "I Feel Sorry For The Girl") (unused):
1. Demo Acetate
2. 45/Columbia 4-41342 (M) (Polly Bergen with orchestra and
chorus conducted by Glenn Osser) [reissued on My Heart Sings,
CD/Collectables 7640]
3. Pat Suzuki's Broadway '59, RCA (M) LPM-1965 (Pat Suzuki with
orchestra conducted by George Siravo) [reissued on Complete
Album Series, CD/Stage Door STAGE 9055]
Jane (cut; reinstated during the run):
1. Demo Acetate
2. First Impressions, Private label SLS RW (A.L.T. cast)
Netherfield: The Road Of Love (added
to a subsequent production):
1. First Impressions,
Private label SLS RW (A.L.T. cast)
No (added to a subsequent production):
1. First Impressions,
Private label SLS RW (A.L.T. cast)
Not Like Me (cut; reinstated in a
subsequent production):
1. Demo Acetate
2. All Alone By The Telephone, Columbia (S) CS-8100 (Polly
Bergen with orchestra conducted by Luther Henderson) [reissued
on All Alone By The Telephone/Four Seasons Of Love,
CD/Collectables COL-CD-6693]
3. Pat Suzuki's Broadway '59, RCA (M) LPM-1965 (Pat Suzuki with
orchestra conducted by George Siravo) [reissued on Complete
Album Series, CD/Stage Door STAGE 9055]
Rosing (added to a subsequent
production):
1. First Impressions,
Private label SLS RW (A.L.T. cast)
Shropshire Whim (cut):
1. Demo Acetate
So This Is How It Is (cut; reinstated
in a subsequent production):
1. Demo Acetate
Unrecorded Songs:
Finaletto
It's The Thing To Do (added to a subsequent production)
Silly Brats And Rum (cut)