SAIL AWAY
Composer: Noel
Coward
Lyricist: Noel Coward
Opened: October 3, 1961, Broadhurst Theatre, NYC
Performances: 167
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast recording are noted below.
Bronxville Darby And Joan (cut; added to the 1962 London production):
1. Noel Coward Sings Sail
Away And Other Coward Rarities, CD/Harbinger HCD 1701 (Noel
Coward) (demo)
2. Noel Coward: A Special Event, DRG (M) SL-5180 (Noel Coward
and Joe Layton) [reissued on Noel Coward Sings Sail Away And
Other Coward Rarities, CD/Harbinger HCD 1701]
3. Sail Away, HMV (S) CSD-1445 (Edith Day and Sydney Arnold with
orchestra conducted by Gareth Davies) [reissued as CD/Fynsworth
Alley 302 062 179 2]
4. Cowardy Custard, RCA (S) LSO-6010 (Patricia Routledge and
John Moffat with musical direction by John Burrows) [reissued as
CD/Masterworks Broadway 88883 72394 2]
5. Cowards In The Wings, CD/Must Close Saturday Records MCSR
3053 (Helen McDermott and Adrian Wright with Annette Jude,
piano)
I Am No Good At Love (cut):
1. Noel Coward Sings Sail
Away And Other Coward Rarities, CD/Harbinger HCD 1701 (Noel
Coward) (demo)
2. Oh, Coward!, Bell (S) 9001 (Barbara Cason, Roderick Cook, and
Jamie Ross with orchestra conducted by Rene Weigert)
3. Murmurs Of The Heart, CD/Quicksilver 1100 (Roscoe Lee Browne)
I Never Knew (cut; originally used in
PACIFIC 1860):
1. Pacific 1860, 78/Decca
K-1590/K-1595 (Mary Martin with orchestra conducted by
Mantovani) [reissued as That's Entertainment (M) 1040; CD/TER
CDTER 1040]
2. The Masters' Voice: Noel Coward His HMV Recordings Vol. 4,
CD/Angel CDP 54923-2 (Noel Coward withe the Cambridge Theatre
orchestra conducted by Mantovani)
This Is A Changing World (cut;
originally used in PACIFIC 1860):
1. 78/HMV B-9532 (Noel
Coward with the Cambridge Theatre orchestra conducted by
Mantovani) [reissued on The Masters' Voice: Noel Coward His HMV
Recordings Vol. 4, CD/Angel CDP 54923-2]
2. Pacific 1860, 78/Decca K-1590/K-1595 (Sylvia Cecil with
orchestra conducted by Mantovani) [reissued as That's
Entertainment (M) 1040; CD/TER CDTER 1040]
3. 45/Capitol 4618 (Dinah Shore with orchestra conducted by Jack
Marshall) [reissued on Lost Broadway 1961, CD/Stage Door STAGE
9063]
4. Joan Sutherland Sings Noel Coward,
London (S) OS-25992 (Joan Sutherland with the National
Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge) [reissued
as CD/Decca 450 014-2]
5. Noel Coward Sings Sail Away And Other Coward Rarities,
CD/Harbinger HCD 1701 (Noel Coward) (demo)
6. Noel Coward On The Air, CD/Flapper PAST CD 7840 (Noel Coward)
7. A Changing World, CD/Reynolds Ensemble
REYNOLDSCD02 (Simon Green with David Shrubsole, piano)
This Is A Night For Lovers (cut;
originally used in PACIFIC 1860):
1. Pacific 1860, 78/Decca
K-1590/K-1595 (Sylvia Cecil Maria Perilli, and Winefride Ingham
with orchestra conducted by Mantovani) [reissued as That's
Entertainment (M) 1040; CD/TER CDTER 1040]
2. Noel Coward Sings Sail Away And Other Coward Rarities,
CD/Harbinger HCD 1701 (Noel Coward) (demo)
3. Noel Coward: A Special Event, DRG (M) SL-5180 (Noel Coward
and Joe Layton) [reissued on Noel Coward Sings Sail Away And
Other Coward Rarities, CD/Harbinger HCD 1701]
4. Sail Away, Capitol (S) SW-1667 (Noel Coward with orchestra
conducted by Peter Matz) [reissued as CD/EMI 7243 5 20726-2;
CD/DRG 19083]
Where Shall I Find Her? (same music as
"Where Shall I Find Him?"):
1. Sail Away, Capitol (S)
SW-1667 (Noel Coward with orchestra conducted by Peter Matz)
[reissued as CD/EMI 7243 5 20726-2; CD/DRG 19083]
Unrecorded Numbers:
Ballet (Italian Interlude)
Don't Let Father See The Frescoes (cut)
Entr'acte
Finale
If We Met (cut before rehearsals)
Let's Have One More Try (unfinished)
Overture
Patterson, Pennsylvania (cut)
Somethin' You Gotta Find Out Yourself (cut)
You And I (cut; originally written for LATER THAN SPRING
(unfinished))