SHINBONE ALLEY
Composer: George
Kleinsinger
Lyricist: Joe Darion
Opened: April 13,
1957, Broadway Theatre, NYC
Performances: 49
Note: Only numbers not found on the live original cast album are noted below.
Prelude:
1. Shinbone Alley, The Sound Of
Broadway (M) 300/1 (Orchestra)
Quiet Street
(cut after opening):
1. Archy And Mehitabel/Echoes Of
Archy, Columbia (M) OL-4963 (Eddie Bracken, Carol Channing, and Percival Dove,
with narration by David Wayne and orchestra conducted by George Kleinsinger)
[reissued as CD/DRG 19064]
2. Archy And Mehitabel/Sadie Thompson, CD/CBC
Audio BC2-217/2002E-A (Jeff Madden with musical direction by Paul
Sportelli)
Song
Of The Bragging Flea (used on the prior 1954 studio cast album
only):
1. Archy And Mehitabel/Echoes Of Archy,
Columbia (M) OL-4963 (Eddie Bracken, Carol Channing, and Percival Dove, with
narration by David Wayne and orchestra conducted by George Kleinsinger)
[reissued as CD/DRG 19064]
2. Archy And Mehitabel/Sadie Thompson, CD/CBC
Audio BC2-217/2002E-A (Jeff Madden with musical direction by Paul
Sportelli)
The Theatre Is Fading Away
(They Haven't Got It Here) (used on the prior 1954 studio cast album and in the
1971 animated film version):
1. Archy And Mehitabel/Echoes Of
Archy, Columbia (M) OL-4963 (Eddie Bracken, Carol Channing, and Percival Dove,
with narration by David Wayne and orchestra conducted by George Kleinsinger)
[reissued as CD/DRG 19064]
Way Down Blues (cut after
opening):
1. Eartha-Quake, CD/Bear Family BCD 15639 (Eartha Kitt with orchestra conducted by Maurice Levine)
Unrecorded Songs:
Lonely (used in the 1971
animated film version)
Song Of Revolution (used in the 1971 animated film
version)
What The Hell (cut after opening)