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)