KISMET
Composer: Alexander
Borodin as adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest
Lyricists:
Robert Wright and George Forrest
Opened: December 3, 1953,
Ziegfeld Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 583
Note: A revised version
entitled TIMBUKTU! opened on March 1, 1978 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre,
N.Y.C., and ran for 243 performances. Only numbers not found on the original
Broadway cast album of KISMET are noted below.
Bored (not used; later added to the film version and subsequent revivals):
1. Kismet, MGM (M) E-3281
(Dolores Gray with the M-G-M Studio Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn)
[reissued as CD/Turner Classic Movies 8 54536 2 5]
2. Kismet, RCA (S)
LSO-1112 (Alfred Drake and Anne Jeffreys with musical direction by Franz
Allers) [reissued as CD/ RCA Victor 09026-68040-2]
3. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2
2352 (Judy Kaye with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards)
4. Kismet, CD/Sony Broadway SK 46438 (Julia Migenes and Samuel
Ramey with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani)
Entr'acte:
1. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352
(Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards)
Entrance Of Lalume:
1. Kismet, CD/TER 1170
(Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards)
2. Kismet, CD/Sony
Broadway SK 46438 London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani)
Fate (reprise):
1. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352
(Donald Maxwell with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards)
Finale Act One:
1. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352
(Donald Maxwell, Judy Kaye, and the Ambrosian Chorus with the Philharmonia
Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards)
2. Kismet, CD/Sony Broadway SK
46438 (Samuel Ramey, Julia Migenes, the Ambrosian Singer, and the Concert
Chorale of New York wth the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul
Gemignani)
Golden Land, Golden Life (not
based on Alexander Borodin's music; written for
TIMBUKTU!):
1. Timbutku! Demo (unidentified
singer) (two versions)
2. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352 (Bruce Hubbard and
Simon Green with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards)
3. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352 (Edmund Barham, Bonaventura Bottone,
and the Men of the Ambrosian Chorus with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted
by John Owen Edwards)
The Hand Of
Fate:
1. Kismet, CD/TER 1170
(Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards)
In The Beginning, Woman (not based on Alexander Borodin's
music; written for TIMBUKTU!):
1. Timbutku! Demo (unidentified
singer)
2. Timbutku!, No label (S) SS-33782-01 (Eartha Kitt)
3. Kismet,
CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352 (Valerie Masterson with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted
by John Owen Edwards)
My Magic Lamp (cut;
later used in TIMBUKTU!):
1. Timbutku! Demo (unidentified
singer)
2. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352 (Valerie Masterson with the
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards)
3. Kismet, CD/Sony
Broadway SK 46438 (Ruth Ann Swenson with the London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Paul Gemignani)
Not Since
Ninevah Dance:
1. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352
(Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards)
Paradise Garden:
1. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352
(Valerie Masterson, Stifyn Parri, and David Rendall with the Philharmonia
Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards)
2. Kismet, CD/Sony Broadway SK
46438 (Ruth Ann Swenson and Jerry Hadley with the London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Paul Gemignani)
The Poet's Meet:
1. Kismet, CD/TER 1170 (Donald
Maxwell with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards)
Power (cut) (not based on
Alexander Borodin's music; written for TIMBUKTU!):
1. Timbutku! Demo (unidentified
singer)
2. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352 (Bruce Hubbard, Simon Green, and the
Men of the Ambrosian Chorus with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John
Owen Edwards)
Rahadlakum Dance (not based
on Alexander Borodin's music; music originally written for a Copacabana
nightclub show):
1. Kismet, CD/Turner Classic
Movies 8 54536 2 5 (M-G-M Studio Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn) (as
"Diwan Dances, Part One")
2. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352 (Judy Kaye, Donald
Maxwell, Rosemary Ashe, and David Rendall with the Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by John Owen Edwards)
Stolen
Oranges:
1. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352
(Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards)
Stranger In Paradise (reprise):
1. Kismet, CD/JAY CDJAY2 2352
(Valerie Masterson with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards)
2. Kismet, CD/Sony Broadway SK 46438 (Ruth Ann Swenson with the
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani)
The
Wazir's Palace/The Wazir's Counsel:
1. Kismet, CD/Sony Broadway SK
46438 (London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Gemignani)
Unrecorded Numbers:
Fly Away (The Kite Song) (not
based on Alexander Borodin's music; written for TIMBUKTU! but cut)
The Mansa
Marries Tonight (Nuptial Celebration) (dance) (written for TIMBUKTU!)
The
Oasis Of Delightful Imaginings (cut)