SMILE (1986)
Composer: Marvin
Hamlisch
Lyricist: Howard Ashman
Opened: November 24, 1986, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 48
Big Bob's Song (cut; resinstated for revised rental version after show closed):
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano) (workshop demo)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Jeff
McCarthy)
Disneyland:
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman with Marvin Hamlisch,
piano)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Jodi
Benson)
3. Unsung Musicals, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5462 (Jodi Benson
with musical direction by Tom Fay)
4. New Faces Of 1999, No label CD990382 (Adriene Daigneault with
Jerry DePuit, piano)
5. Something That I Wanted You To Know, CD/Tagline 000129 (Tom
Grounds with music direction by Ricky Pope)
6. So Far It's Wonderful, CD/Original Cast 32 (Sammy Goldstein)
7. Faith, Trust And Pixie Dust, CD/PS Classics 862 (Kerry Butler
with musical direction by Michael Kosarin)
8. On My Own, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5810 (Michelle Nicastro
with music conducted by Lanny Meyers) (hidden bonus track)
9. Hybrid Songbird, CD/Ava Victoria 65481 83212 (Ava Victoria)
10. Illusions, CD/Miranda Music MMCD1011 (Marissa Mulder with
music direction by Bill Zeffiro)
11. Everything Possible, CD/EPCD992-0 (Bill McKinley with James
Moore, piano)
12. Kids With Heart, CD/KWH2000 (Rachel Antonoff with musical
direction by Aaron Hagan)
Dressing Room Scene (including "Do It
For Me" and "Ted Farley Sequence"):
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano) (with variant beginning)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Anne Marie
Bobby, Jodi Benson, Dick Patterson, Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling, et
al.)
Finale (original version including
"Pretty As A Picture") :
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
Finale (revised version):
1. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Dick Patterson, Jeff McCarthy, Anne Marie Bobby, Jodi Benson, Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling et al.)
In Our Hands:
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Jodi
Benson, Anne Marie Bobby, Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling, et al.)
3. Unsung Musicals, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5462 (Lynnette Perry
with Julie Anne Aho, Lisa Mayer, Christa Fuller, and Lisa Beth
Carroll with musical direction by Tom Fay)
Nerves:
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Jodi
Benson, Anne Marie Bobby, Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling, et al.)
Orientation (aka "The Very Best Week Of Your Lives"):
1. Smile: Unreleased
Samuel French Perusal Recording (Marsha Waterbury, Jodi Benson,
Anne Marie Bobby, Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling, et al.)
Postcard #1:
1. Smile: Unreleased
Samuel French Perusal Recording (Anne Marie Bobby)
Postcard #1 (unused version):
1. Howard Sings Ashman, CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with Marvin Hamlisch, piano) (as part of "Santa Rosa Intro")
Postcard #2:
1. Smile: Unreleased
Samuel French Perusal Recording (Anne Marie Bobby)
Postcard #2 ("What Was I Thinking?")
(unused version):
1. Howard Sings Ashman, CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
Postcard #3:
1. Smile: Unreleased
Samuel French Perusal Recording (Anne Marie Bobby)
2. Howard Sings Ashman, CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and
Marvin Hamlisch with Marvin Hamlish, piano) (used in abridged
form as a portion of "Act II Opening")
Santa Rosa Intro (unused):
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlish, piano)
Shine:
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording Jodi
Benson, Anne Marie Bobby, Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling, Michael
O'Gorman, Marsha Waterbury, et al.)
Smile:
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Dick
Patterson, Jodi Benson, Anne Marie Bobby, Veanne Cox, Tia
Riebling, et al.)
3. Unsung Musicals, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5462 (Harry Groener
with Julie Anne Aho, Lisa Mayer, Christa Fuller, and Lisa Beth
Carroll with musical direction by Tom Fay)
There Goes The Girl:
1. Smile: Unreleased
Samuel French Perusal Recording (Dick Patterson)
Tonight (Act I Finale) (unused; portion reused in "Until
Tomorrow Night"):
1. Howard Sings Ashman, CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with Marvin Hamlish, piano)
Typical High School Senior (aka "Prologue"):
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Jodi
Benson, Anne Marie Bobby, Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling, et al.)
3. Hamlisch Uncovered, CD/Broadway Records BR-CD08917 (Mana
Allen, Jenny Baker, Taylor Brauer, Ashley Bruce, Daisy Carnelia,
Jessie del Rio, Sara Glancy, Aja Goes, Sarah Grace, Leigh Ellen
Jones, Linda Van Kesteren, Caitlin Kinnunen, Caroline Liff,
Molly Modell, Chelsie Nectow, Jaime Rosenstein, and Amy Weaver
with Michael Levine, piano)
Until Tomorrow Night:
1. Smile: Unreleased
Samuel French Perusal Recording (Jodi Benson, Anne Marie Bobby,
Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling, Marsha Waterbury, Jeff McCarthy, et
al.)
We Wish We Were You (not in programs):
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
Welcome To Santa Rosa (cut):
1. Howard Sings Ashman, CD/PS Classics
PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with Marvin
Hamlish, piano)
Young And American (Preliminary Night) (interior segment
entitled "Maria's Song" later used in HUNDREDS OF HATS):
1. Howard Sings Ashman,
CD/PS Classics PS-869 (Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch with
Marvin Hamlisch, piano)
2. Smile: Unreleased Samuel French Perusal Recording (Jodi
Benson, Anne Marie Bobby, Veanne Cox, Tia Riebling, et al.)
3. Unsung Musicals III, CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5769 (Diana
Canova with music conducted by Lanny Meyers) ("Maria's Song"
segment only)
Unrecorded Number:
Letters (written for
revised rental version after show closed)