LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Composer: Irving Berlin
Lyricist: Irving Berlin

Opened: May 28, 1940, Imperial Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 444

Note: Except as noted below, no attempt has been made to compile discological information for the recordings found on the 1996 Encores City Center revival cast album.

Apologia (cut per Bloom but listed in Norton):

1. Louisiana Purchase, CD/DRG 94766 (Erin Dilly, Merwin Goldsmith, Jamie Brecher, Keith Byron Kirk, James Ludwig, and Alet Oury with orchestra directed by Rob Fisher)


I'd Love To Be Shot Out Of A Cannon With You (aka "I'd Love To Be Shot From A Cannon With You" and "I'd Like To Be Shot Out Of A Cannon With You") (dropped; reinstated in the 1996 Encores revival):

1. Louisiana Purchase, CD/DRG 94766 (James Ludwig, Alet Oury, Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader, and Kim Nazarian with orchestra directed by Rob Fisher)
2. The Broadway Musicals Of 1940, CD/Bayview RNBW019 (John Dossett, Bryan Batt, Rob Evan, and Julie Reyburn with the Ross Patterson Little Big Band)


It'll Come To You (dropped; reinstated in the 1996 Encores revival):

1. 78/Columbia 35528 (Bonnie Baker and The Bodyguards with Orrin Tucker and his Orchestra)
2. 78/Columbia 26579 (Anita Boyer with the Leo Reisman Orchestra) [reissued on Louisiana Purchase, JJA 19746]
3. Irving Berlin Revisited, MGM E-4435 OC (Blossom Dearie and Bobby Short with musical direction by Norman Paris) [reissued as Painted Smiles PS-1356; CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-118]
4. Louisiana Purchase, CD/DRG 94766 (Taina Elg and Debbie Gravitte with orchestra directed by Rob Fisher)
5. The Broadway Musicals Of 1940, CD/Bayview RNBW019 (Julie Reyburn and Natalie Douglas with the Ross Patterson Little Big Band)


The Waltz Of Old Vienna (earlier title: "Nobody Dances In Vienna (You Can't Goose-Step To A Waltz)") (not used):

1. Always: The Love Story Of Irving Berlin, CD/No label (KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler)

Wild About You (dropped during rehearsals but reinstated in the 1996 Encores revival; originally written for but not used in TOP HAT but reinstated for the 2012 London production of TOP HAT):

1. 78/Royale 1879 (Una Wyte with Eddie Le Baron and his Rainbow Room Orchestra) [reissued on Louisiana Purchase, JJA 19746]
2. Irving Berlin Revisited, MGM E-4435 OC (Blossom Dearie with musical direction by Norman Paris) [reissued as Painted Smiles PS-1356; CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-118]
3. Louisiana Purchase, CD/DRG 94766 (Debbie Shapiro, Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan, Darmon Meader, and Kim Nazarian with orchestra directed by Rob Fisher)
4. Top Hat, CD/First Night CASTCD115 (Summer Strallen with orchestra directed by Dan Jackson)


Unrecorded Songs:

I'm A Quaker's Daughter
From The Latin Quarter (not used) (no music survives)
In An Old-Fashioned Parlor (not used; no music survives; only lyric fragment survives)
We Might Have Had A Future (not used) (no music survives)
You Must Catch A Senator With A Girl (unused; no music survives)