GIGI



Composer: Frederick Loewe
Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner

Opened: May 15, 1958 (film); November 13, 1973, Uris Theatre, NYC
Performances: 103

Note: Only numbers not found on the expanded Turner soundtrack CD or on the Broadway cast album are noted below.


A Toujours (cut from the film) [used instrumentally as underscoring in the "Ice Skating Sequence" (Palais de Glace) on the film soundtrack; same music as "The Contract" in the stage musical):

1. 45/Columbia 41185 (Vic Damone with Frank DeVol and His Orchestra) [also found on Closer Than A Kiss, Columbia (S) CS-8019; Closer Than a Kiss/This Game of Love, CD/Collectables 7530; also found on The Great American Composers: Lerner & Loewe, CD/Columbia House 2C2 8306]
2. Gigi, RCA Victor (S) LSP-1716/(M) LPM-1716 (Gogi Grant with Dennis Farnon's Orchestra) [reissued on American Songbook Series: Alan Jay Lerner, CD/Smithsonian RD 048-8]
3. Gigi, Design (M) DLP-56 (Helen Halpin with orchestra conducted by Warren Edward Vincent)[also Bellflower (M) BFR-8009]
4. Gigi, MGM (M) E-3640 (David Rose and His Orchestra)
5. Dick Hyman Trio Swings Gigi, M-G-M (M) E3642 (Dick Hyman Trio) [reissued as Gigi, CD/MGM E3642]
6. Gigi, Society (M) SOC 902 (Society Orchestra conducted by Keith Wardell) (as "Park Scene")
7. Dancing With Gigi, Columbia (M) CL 1122 (Ray Wllis and His Orchestra)
8. Gigi, Contemporary (S) S7548 (Andre Previn & His Pals) [reissued as CD/Contemporary Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-407-2]
9. An Evening With Lerner And Loewe, RCA Victor (S) LSP-6005 (Robert Merrill with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Johnny Green) [also found on The Great Song Hits From Gigi & Brigadoon, RCA Victor (S) LSP-2275]
10. A Musical Spectacular, CD/Chandos CHAN 8781 (The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Elmer Bernstein) (as "Palais de Glace")
11. Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Ann Hampton Callaway)
12. Piano Cocktail, Vol. 2, CD/Sonia (unknown performer) (unverified)
13. Gigi, DMI Soundtracks 2-549397 (Steffanie Leigh with orchestra conducted by Greg Jarrett)


Entr'acte:

1. Gigi, CD/First Night OCRCD 6007 (orchestra with musical direction by Ray Cook and violin solo by Perry Montague-Mason)


I Never Want To Go Home Again (written for but not used in the 1973 stage musical and reinstated in the 2015 Broadway revival):

1.  Gigi, DMI Soundtracks 2-549397 (Vanessa Hudgens with orchestra conducted by Greg Jarrett)


The Letter (used in the 2015 Broadway revival):

1.  Gigi, DMI Soundtracks 2-549397 (Vanessa Hudgens with orchestra conducted by Greg Jarrett)



Unrecorded Numbers:

All About Gaston (first version) (cut)
All About Gaston (second version) (cut)
All About Gaston (third version) (cut)
Da Da Da Da (written for but cut from the stage musical)
Everything French Is Better (cut)
Gossip (cut from Act 1, Scene 4)
Gossip (alternate version) (cut)
Paris Is Paris Again (cut reprises)
The Telephone (written for the stage musical)