KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY
Composer: Kurt
Weill
Lyricist: Maxwell Anderson
Opened: October 19,
1938, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 168
All Hail The Political Honeymoon (Act I Finale):
1. Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI
1148 (Walter Huston and Chorus with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel)
[also found on CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From Berlin To Broadway Volume II,
CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9294]
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Full
Company with muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
The Bachelor's Song (cut; reinstated in some
productions):
1. Kurt Weill On Broadway,
CD/Koch Schwann 3-1416-2 (Steven Kimbrough with the Kolner Rundfunkorchester
conducted by Victor Symonette)
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight
8-4450 (Christopher Fitzgerald, Marie Mascari, Heather Hill, and Teresa
Buchholz with muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
Ballad Of The Robbers (aka "Act Two
Introduction"):
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Bryce Pinkham with muiscal direction by James
Bagwell)
Clickety Clack:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Collegiate Women's Chorus with muiscal direction by James
Bagwell)
Clump! Clump! Swish!
(cut):
1. Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI
1148 (Female chorus with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel) (erroneously
labeled "Clickety-Clack") [also found on CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From Berlin
To Broadway Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9294]
Dirge
For A Soldier:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (The Collegiate Chorus with muiscal direction by James
Bagwell)
Entry Of The
Council:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI
1148 (Robert Shackleton with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel) [also
found on CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From Berlin To Broadway Volume II, CD/Pearl
GEMM CDS 9294]
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Bryce Pinkham
with muiscal direction by James Bagwell) (as "Entrance Of The
Coucil")
Finale (reprise of "How Can You
Tell An American?"):
See entry for "How Can You Tell
An American?" below.
How Can You Tell An
American?:
1. 78/Liberty Music Shop L-248
(Radio City Four) [reissued on The Music Of Broadway: 1938, JJA (M)
1988-1]
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI 1148 (Ensemble with orchestra
conducted by Maurice Abravanel) [also found on CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From
Berlin To Broadway Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9294]
3. Kurt Weill
1933-1950, Orizzonte (S) ORL 8028 (Laura Betti with musical direction by Bruno
Maderna)
4. Berlin To Broadway With Kurt Weill, Paramount (S) PAS-4000
(Margery Cohen, Judy Lander, Jerry Lanning, and Hal Watters with orchestra
conducted by Newton Wayland)
5. Songs Of Kurt Weill, CD/Tomato R2 72198
(Helen Schneider)
6. Kurt Weill On Broadway, CD/Angel 7243 5 55563 2 (Thomas
Hampson and Jerry Hadley with the London Sinfonietta conducted by John
McGlinn)
7. Lenya, CD/Bear Family BCD-16019 (Lotte Lenya with orchestra
conducted by Gershon Kingsley)
8. Lost In The Stars And Stripes, CD/Anakreon
Verlag ANA 1001 (Alan Marks, and Udo Samel)
9. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Bryce Pinkham and Ben Davis with muiscal direction by
James Bagwell)
10. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Full
Company with muiscal direction by James Bagwell) (as Finale -
Reprise)
Hush Hush (added during the
run):
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Council with muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
I'll Sing Of A Golden Age (aka "Washington
Irving's Song" and "A History Of New York"):
1. Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI
1148 (Robert Shackleton with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel) [also
found on CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From Berlin To Broadway Volume II, CD/Pearl
GEMM CDS 9294]
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Bryce Pinkham
with muiscal direction by James Bagwell) (as "Introduction & Washington
Irving's Song")
It Never Was You (same
music as "You Cannot Buy Me Love" in DAVY CROCKETT):
1. Click here for recordings of
"It Never Was You."
Love Has Made This Such A Lovely Day (M: Jule Styne; L:
Sammy Cahn) (written for the film version):
1. The Classic Movie Musicals Of
Jule Styne, JJA Records 19843 (Nelson Eddy, Constance Dowling, and Shelley
Winters with orchestra directed by Jacques Samossud)
May And January:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (The Collegiate Chorus with muiscal direction by James
Bagwell)
No, Ve Vouldn't Gonto Do It (aka
"We Want To Make The Laws"):
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Council and The Collegiate Chorus with muiscal direction
by James Bagwell)
The One Indispensible
Man:
1. Kurt Weill In Hollywood, Ariel
(M) KWH 10 (Charles Coburn and Ernest Cossart with orchestra directed by
Jacques Samossud)
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Victor
Garber and David Garrison with muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
One More Smile (M: Jule Styne; L: Sammy
Cahn) (written for but not used in the film version):
1. Loving Lullabies: The Lyrical
Way to Miles of Smiles for Everyone, CD/Share-A-Smile-Ambassadors.com (Edith
Namm, Elizabeth Stiefel, and Dale Fisher) (unverified)
A unverified radio
transcription performed by Bob Hannon and Chorus is also known to exist.
One
Touch Of Alchemy:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI
1148 (Walter Huston and Chorus with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel)
[also found on CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From Berlin To Broadway Volume II,
CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9294]
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450
(Victor Garber, Council, and The Collegiate Chorus with muiscal direction by
James Bagwell)
Our Ancient
Liberties:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Council with muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
Prologue To Act Two, Scene Two (Washington
Irving's reprise of "There's Nowhere To Go But Up"):
See entry below for "There's
Nowhere To Go But Up"
The Scars
(#2):
1. 78/Brunswick 8272 (Walter
Huston with orchestra conducted by Maurice de Abravanel) [reissued on Kurt
Weill: From Berlin To Broadway Volume I, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9189]
2.
Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI 1148 (Walter Huston and Chorus with orchestra
conducted by Maurice Abravanel) [also found on CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From
Berlin To Broadway Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9294]
3. Knickerbocker
Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Victor Garber with muiscal direction by James
Bagwell)
September
Song:
I have not attempted to provide
discological information for this Weill standard.
Sitting In Gaol:
1. Weill Opera 2, Fonitcetra (S)
LPX 88 (Katyna Ranieri with the Quartetto d'Archi directed by Riz
Ortolani)
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Victor Garber with
muiscal direction by James Bagwell) (as "Sitting In Jail")
There's
Nowhere To Go But Up:
1. 78/Liberty Music Shop L-248
(Radio City Four) [reissued on The Music Of Broadway: 1938, JJA (M)
1988-1]
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI 1148 (David Brooks with orchestra
conducted by Maurice Abravanel) [also found on CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From
Berlin To Broadway Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9294]
3. Kurt Weill In
Hollywood, Ariel (M) KWH 10 (Nelson Eddy with orchestra directed by Jacques
Samossud)
4. Kurt Weill In America, CD/Andrewsong AND-07 (Barbara Brussell,
Jeff Harnar, Mark Coffin, Jered Egan, and Shelly Markham with musical conducted
by Shelly Markham)
5. Julie Wilson Sings The Kurt Weill Songbook, CD/DRG
CDSL 5207 (Julie Wilson and William Roy with William Roy, piano)
6. The
American Songs of Kurt Weill, CD/HR 00601 (Sylvia Doste, Jeff Cascaro, the Hr
Big Band, and Jorg Ach Keller)
7. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight
8-4450 (Ben Davis, Christopher Fitzgerald, and the Collegiate Chorus with
muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
8. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight
8-4450 (Bryce Pinkham with muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
(reprise)
To War!:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday, AEI
1148 (Chorus with orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel) [also found on
CD/AEI-CD 007; Kurt Weill: From Berlin To Broadway Volume II, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS
9294]
2. Knickerbocker Holiday, CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Council and the
Collegiate Men's Chorus with muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
We
Are Cut In Twain:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Ben Davis and Kelli O'Hara with muiscal direction by
James Bagwell)
Will You Remember Me?:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Ben Davis and Kelli O'Hara with muiscal direction by
James Bagwell)
Young People Think About Love:
1. Knickerbocker Holiday,
CD/Ghostlight 8-4450 (Kelli O'Hara, Ben Davis, Council, and the Collegiate
Chorus with muiscal direction by James Bagwell)
Unrecorded Material:
Algonquins From Harlem (aka
"Dance Of The Algonquins") (inst.)
The Army Of New Amsterdam
(inst.)
Another Law (cut)
Be Not Hasty Maiden Fair (M/L: Theodore Paxton
and Nelson Eddy) (written for the film version)
Brom's Complaint
(cut)
The Consequence Is Awful (cut)
Dutch Dance (dance)
Epilogue
(cut)
Exit Of Council (Act II) (inst.)
Exit Of The Council (Act I)
(inst.)
The Hanging (inst.)
Holiday (M/L: Theodore Paxton and Nelson
Eddy) (written for the film version)
How Far Will You Go With Me (cut)
I
Do Business In My Hat (cut)
It's A Law (cut after opening)
Jail Song (L:
Forman Brown, Nelson Eddy) (written for the film version)
Let's Make
Tomorrow Today (M: Werner Heymann; L: Forman Brown) (written for the film
version)
The Scars (#1) (cut)
Scrubbing Song (ASCAP/Library Of Congress
only)
Sing Out (M: Franz Steininger; L: Forman Brown) (written for the film
version)
Stuyvesant's Entrance (inst.)
Zuyder Zee (M: Jule Styne; L:
Sammy Cahn) (written for the film version)