THE RED SHOES
Composer: Jule
Styne
Lyricist: Bob Merrill (as "Paul Stryker")
Opened:
December 16, 1993, Gershwin Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 5
A
composer demos is said to exist, as well as at least one live performance
recording.
Am I
To Wish Her Love (same music as I! Yes Me! That's Who! from LOOK TO THE
LILIES):
1. Look To the Lilies, Chappell
(S) Z3RS-0017 (studio demo with Marc Allen Trujillo) ("I! Yes Me! That's Who!")
[also found on Look To The Lilies/Pleasures And Palaces, Blue Pear BP (M) 1010;
CD/Déjà vu 1010; The Songs of Jule Styne, Warner Bros. JS1/2
(erroneously attributed to Al Freeman, Jr.)]
2. Look To The Lilies, Chappell
(S) Z3RS-0017 (studio demo with unidentified female singer)
3. Sing Lofty,
Music For Pleasure (S) MFP 50342 (Don Estelle & Windsor Davies with the
Mike Sammes Singers) ("I! Yes Me! That's Who!")
4. The Great American
Composers: Sammy Cahn, CD/2C2 8165 (Tony Bennett) ("I! Yes Me! That's Who!")
Come Home (uses most of the melody of
"The World Is Beautiful Today" from HAZEL FLAGG):
1. Hazel Flagg, RCA Victor (M)
LOC-1010 (Helen Gallagher with orchestra conducted by Pembroke Davenport) ("The
World Is Beautiful Today") [reissued as CD/Sepia 1035]
2. Let Me Entertain
You, Decca DL4437 (Carol Burnett with orchestra directed by Harry Zimmerman)
("The World Is Beautiful Today") [reissued on Let Me Entertain You/Carol
Burnett Sings, CD/Decca Broadway 012 159 402-2]
My Reason For
Being:
1. 18 Interesting Songs From
Unfortunate Shows, Take Home Tunes (S) THT-777 (Bobby Van with music conducted
by Buster Davis)
Red Shoes Ballet (main
theme is "The Practice Scherzo" with music from "Sunshine," both from GENTLEMEN
PREFER BLONDES):
1. Celebrating Gypsy; Funny Girl;
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: A Tribute To Jule Styne, CD/BBC WMEU 0019-2 (BBC Big
Band, BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Don Pippin)
For
a recording of "The Practice Sherzo" see:
1.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, CD/Sony
Broadway SK 48013 (orchestra conducted by Milton
Rosenstock)
For recordings of "Sunshine" see:
1. 45/RCA Victor 47-3130 (Ray Dorey and
Quartette with Larry Green and his Orchestra)
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
Columbia ML 4290 (Yvonne Adair and Eric Brotherson with orchestra conducted by
Milton Rosenstock) [reissued as CD/Sony Broadway SK 48013]
3. Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes, CD/DRG 94762 (cast with music direction by Andrew Wilder)
("Sunshine Montage")
4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, EMI (S) CSD 1464 (Dora
Bryan, Anne Hart and company with music direction by Alyn Ainsworth) (also
CAS/TER (S) ZCTER 1059)
5. Lorelei, CD/MGM Verve MV-5097-OC (Singers with
musical direction by Milton Rosenstock) ("Paris, Paris," a revised version of
"Sunshine") [reissued on CD/Decca Broadway B0001407-02]
When It Happens To You:
1. Unsung Musicals II, CD/Varese
Sarabande VSD-5564 (Lynne Wintersteller with music direction by Lanny Meyers)
Other Songs:
Along In The Light
The
Audition; Be Somewhere
Corps De Ballet
Do Svedanya (L: Bob Merrill;
Marsha Norman)
Home Again (L: Marsha Norman; not used; same music as "Come
Home" and "The World Is Beautiful Today" from HAZEL FLAGG, recordings of which
are noted above)
I'll Never Know (L: Marsha Norman;
cut)
Impresario
It's A Fairy Tale
It's Always Like The First Time (L:
Marsha Norman; cut)
Miss Page
One And One Are Two (L: Marsha Norman;
cut)
The Rag
The Red Shoes (L: Marsha Norman; cut)
Top Of The
Sky
When It Happens To You (L: Marsha Norman; cut)
When You Dance For A
King