NEW FACES OF 1968
Composer:
Various
Lyricist: Various
Opened: May 2, 1968,
Booth Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 32
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast album are noted below. A television broadcast recording of Robert Klein's "Audition" sketch is known to exist.
The Girl Of The Minute (M: David Shire; L: Richard Maltby, Jr.) (subsequently used in STARTING HERE, STARING NOW):
1. Starting Here, Starting Now,
CD/JAY CDJAY1254 (Michael Cantwell with musical direction by Caroline
Humphris)
The Peanut Butter Affair (M/L:
Clark Gesner) (cut; originally used in BITS & PIECES XIV):
1. Demo acetate (Clark Gesner
with unidentified woman)
2. 45/Nola Recording Studio acetate (Dennis Allen,
Elizabeth Wilson, Liz Sheridan, and Lee Beery) (differs slightly from the PLaza
9- recording)
3. 45/PLaza 9 PL9 (Dennis Allen, Lee Beery, Bill Hinnant, John
Keatts, Liz Sheridan, Elizabeth Wilson with Robert Colston and Frederick Silver
at the Pianos)
4. Postprandial Delights From The Crystal Palace Theatre
Restaurant, Location Recording Service (S) LRSV-ST-4484 (Mead Metcalf)
5. 22
Years At The Crystal Palace, Location Recording Service (S) LRS-RT-6492 (Mead
Metcalf)
6. 37 Years Of Peanut Butter On My Chin: The Crystal Palace,
CD/086P2<795>CRYSTALPALACE (Mead Metcalf with Mead Metcalf and David
Dyer, pianos)
7. The Jello Is Always Red, CD/Harbinger HCD 1502 (Celia
Gentry, Neal Young, and Clark Gesner with musical direction by Winston Clark)
Toyland (M/L: Gene P.
Bissell):
1. From The Top, Cameron Studios
CA 1006 (Emma-Jean Cappello, Greg Keenan, Shirley Patrignani, Keith Saxon,
Ellen Siegel, and Karyl Van Benthuysen)
Unrecorded
Materials:
The American Hamburger League
(sketch by Norman Kline) (dropped after opening)
Audition (sketch by Robert
Klein)
Definitions (by Random House)
Gospel According To Jack (sketch by
William F. Brown)
Happy Landings (sketch by Jack Sharkey)
Illustrated
Overture
Introduction (Act 2)
Isolation [#1]
Isolation
[#2]
Isolation [#3] - Right About Here (M/L: Arthur Siegel)
Isolation
[#4] - Cymbals And Tambourines (M/L: Arthur Siegel)
Mama Doll (sketch by
Charles Tobias and Nat Simon with conception by George Ormiston and Nancie
Phillips)
Missed America (M/L: Kenny Solms and Gail Parent)
Opening
Reprise
The Pile-Up
The Refund (sketch by Peter De Vries)
The
Underachiever (sketch by Peter De Vries)