LOLITA, MY LOVE

LOLITA, MY LOVE

Composer: John Barry
Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner

Opened: February 16, 1971 at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia, closed March 27, 1971 at the Shubert Theatre in Boston

Live performance recordings of both the Philly and Boston tryouts are known to exist, documenting all of the songs cut out of town. Th eBlue Pear recording noted below is drawn from one of the Boston recordings.

All You Can Do Is Tell Me That You Love Me:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner)
2. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Denise Nickerson with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

At The Bed-D-Bye Motel:

1. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Witham, Leonard Fry, and Conventioneers with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Beardsley School For Girls:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner)
2. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Students with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Buckin' For Beardsley:

1. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Students erson with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Charlotte's Letter:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner)
2. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Neville, Dorothy Loudon and chorus with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Dante, Petrach and Poe (Conversation):

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner)
2. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Neville and Guests with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Farewell, Little Dream (Goodbye):

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner)
2. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Neville with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Finale:

1. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Going, Going, Gone:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner)
2. Media Sound (S) MSP-117-8 (studio demo with unidentified singers) [also 45EP/Media Sound (S) MSP 118]
3. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Leonard Fry and Lance Westergard with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
4. Never, Never, Never, United Artists UAS 055 (Shirley Bassey) [reissued on Never Never Never/Good, Bad But Beautiful, CD/Beat Goes On 697]
5. The Great American Composers: Lerner & Loewe, CD/Columbia House 2C2 8306 (Ann Howard)

Have You Got What You Came With? (cut prior to closing):

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner)

How Far Is It To The Next Town?:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner with John Barry, piano)
2. Media Sound (S) MSP-117-8 (studio demo with male and female versions) [also 45EP/Media Sound MSP 118]
3. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Neville with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
4. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Neville, Denise Nickerson, and Chorus with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
5. Lerner, Loewe, Lane & Friends, CD/Varese Sarabande 5917 (Jamie Anderson with music direction by Ron Abel)

I Must Have Her (unused):

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner with John Barry, piano)

In The Broken Promise Land Of Fifteen:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner with John Barry, piano)
2. Media Sound (S) MSP-117-8 (studio demo with unidentified singers) (two versions)
3. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Neville with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
4. 45/MGM Merlin ME 201X (Robert Goulet with orchestra conducted by Ernie Freeman) [reissued on I Never Did As I Was Told, Merlin (S) 2001]
5. Lerner, Loewe, Lane & Friends, CD/Varese Sarabande 5917 (Bill Hutton with music direction by Ron Abel)
6. The Alan Jay Lerner Album, CD/Fynsworth Alley 062161 (Brent Barrett with music direction by Christopher Denny)

Lolita:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner)
2. Media Sound (S) MSP-117-8 (studio demo with unidentified singers) (two versions)
3. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Neville with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
4. For All We Know, Columbia (S) C 30672 (Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra)
5. The Best Of John Barry, CD/Polydor 849 095-2 (John Barry)

March Out Of My Life (cut prior to closing):

1. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Leonard Frey with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Overture:

1. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

The Same Old Song:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner with John Barry, piano)
2. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Dorothy Loudon and Denise Nickerson with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
3. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Dorothy Loudon, Denise Nickerson, and John Neville with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
4. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Denise Nickerson and John Neville with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Saturday:

1. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Denise Nickerson with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)

Sur Le Quais (De Ramsdale, Vermont):

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner with John Barry, piano)
2. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (Dorothy Loudon with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
3. Alan Jay Lerner Revisited, CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-141 (Dorothy Loudon)

Tell Me, Tell Me:

1. Composer demo (Alan Jay Lerner with John Barry, piano)
2. Lolita, My Love, Blue Pear (M) 1009 (John Neville with orchestra conducted by Herbert Grossman)
3. The Alan Jay Lerner Album, CD/Fynsworth Alley 062161 (Brent Barrett with music direction by Christopher Denny)

Other Songs:

Buckin' For Beardsley/Beardsley School For Girls (reprise)
Farewell, Little Dream (Act 2 reprise)
Hello, Little Dream (reprise of "Farewell, Little Dream")
I Always Believe Me
I Hear You (unused)
I've Found You At Last (cut prior to closing)
If It Ain't Fun (cut prior to closing)
It's A Bad, Bad World (cut prior to closing)
Lolita (reprise) (cut)
Mother Needs A Boyfriend (cut prior to closing)
Mulligan's Trailer Camp (written for the unproduced post-Boston revision)
The Prologue (cut)
The Tell Tale Signs (written for the unproduced post-Boston revision)
Sex Education
Striffic Day (unused precursor to "Saturday")
We'll Get Along Fine (unused)

Note: "I Must Have Her" has different lyrics from the song with the same title in CARMELINA.