GOLDILOCKS (1958)



Composer: Leroy Anderson
Lyricists: Joan Ford and Walter & Jean Kerr

Opened: October 11, 1958, Lunt-Fontanne, NYC
Performances: 161

Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast album are noted below.


A Chance He'll Never Stray (cut):

1. Demo (Patricia Wilson)


Cool Off (cut):

1. Demo (Leroy Anderson, piano and voice)


Come To Me (cut; replaced with "Shall I Take My Heart And Go"):

1. Demo (Leroy Anderson, piano and voice)


Guess Who (cut; replaced with "Give The Little Lady"):

1. Demo (Patricia Wilson and unidentifed male singer)
2. The Columbia Years, CD/Collectables 7584 (Sylvia Syms) (previously unissued)


Hello, My Love, Hello (cut):

1. Demo (Leroy Anderson, piano and voice)


I Shouldn't Be Out With This Heart (unused):

1. Demo (Leroy Anderson, piano and voice)


If I Can't Take It With Me (cut during previews):

1. Demo (Patricia Wilson)
2. Boys And Girls Like You And Me, CD/Bayview RNBW007 (Sally Mayes with musical direction by Dick Gallagher)
3. Lost In Boston IV, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5768 (Alet Oury with music conducted by Brad Ellis)


Lady In Waiting Ballet:

1. Leroy Anderson Conducts Leroy Anderson, Decca (S) DL 7-8865 (orchestra conducted by Leroy Anderson) [reissued on The Leroy Anderson Collection, CD/MCA MCAD2-9815]
2. The Music Of Leroy Anderson, CD/Spy Recordings SRCD-1001 (Catherine Wilson, piano)
3. Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music - 5, CD/Naxos 8.559382 (BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin)


Lady In Waiting Waltz:

1. Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music - 5, CD/Naxos 8.559382 (BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin)


Little Girls Should Be Seen (cut):

1. Demo (unidentified male vocal)


London (cut; early version of "Lady In Waiting"):

1. Demo (Patricia Wilson)


Overture (original version):

1. Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music - 5, CD/Naxos 8.559382 (BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin)

Pirate Dance (Huckleberry Island Ballet):

1. The New Music Of Leroy Anderson, Decca (S) DL 7-4335 (The Leroy Anderson Orchestra) [reissued on The Leroy Anderson Collection, CD/MCA MCAD2-9815]
2. Frederick Fennell Conducts The Music Of Leroy Anderson And Eric Coates, CD/Mercury 434 376-2 (Frederick Fennell conducting the London Pops Orchestra)
3. Blue Tango: A Leroy Anderson Centennial Celebration, Vol. 1, CD/RJE Productions 1908 (Jelani Eddington at the Sanfilippo Wurlitzer Unit Organ)
4. Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music - 5, CD/Naxos 8.559382 (BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin)


Pyramid Dance [Heart Of Stone]:

1. Leroy Anderson Conducts Leroy Anderson, Decca (S) DL 7-8865 (orchestra conducted by Leroy Anderson) [also 45/Decca 9-30979; reissued on The Leroy Anderson Collection, CD/MCA MCAD2-9815]
2. 45/Columbia 4-41271 (Percy Faith and his Orchestra) [reissued on Columbia Singles, Vol. 2: 1952-1958, CD/Collectables 7636]
3. Blue Tango: A Leroy Anderson Centennial Celebration, Vol. 1, CD/RJE Productions 1908 (Jelani Eddington at the Sanfilippo Wurlitzer Unit Organ)
4. Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music - 5, CD/Naxos 8.559382 (BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin)


Tagalong Kid (cut):

1. Demo (Patricia Wilson and unidentified male vocal)


This Is My Last Spring (cut; replaced with "I Never Know When"):

1. Demo (Patricia Wilson)


The Town-House Maxixe Dance:

1. The New Music Of Leroy Anderson, Decca (S) DL 7-4335 (The Leroy Anderson Orchestra) [reissued on The Leroy Anderson Collection, CD/MCA MCAD2-9815]
2. Blue Tango: A Leroy Anderson Centennial Celebration, Vol. 1, CD/RJE Productions 1908 (Jelani Eddington at the Sanfilippo Wurlitzer Unit Organ)
3. Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music - 5, CD/Naxos 8.559382 (BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin)


Untitled Song (no lyric):

1. Demo (Leroy Anderson, piano)


Unrecorded Material:

Are We Feeling Any Better? (cut);
Hurricane Dance (cut; replaced with "Pirate Dance")