London Cast - Follies (Original Cast Recording) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The 1950s produced two gigantic home-grown musicals in Britain - Salad Days and The Boy Friend. Both dominated the West End for most of the decade and The Boy Friend also triumphed on Broadway before being turned into a film starring Twiggy. Set in the 1920s The Boy Friend was composer Sandy Wilson's affectionate tribute to a bygone era. Called InchA new musical of the 1920sInch The Boy Friend is the obvious brother of Rodger's and Hart's The Girl Friend and follows much of the same structure as two by Vincent Youman - No, No, Nanette and Hit the Deck. To illustrate the point we have included as bonus tracks songs from the three shows The Boy Friend pays homage to, all re-mastered from recordings made in the 1920s. Anne Rogers made her stage debut in this production of The Boy Friend and every track is a gem. The original London Cast recording has not been available for a long time and has never been issued on CD until now. All tracks have been re-mastered using the CEDAR system and the 12 page booklet contains many production photographs. Album Tracks 1. Overture 2. Perfect Young Ladies 3. Boy Friend 4. Won't You Charleston with Me? 5. Fancy Forgetting 6. I Could Be Happy with You 7. Sur la Plage 8. A Room in Bloomsbury 9. It's Nicer in Nice 10. Riviera 11. It's Never Too Late to Fall in Love 12. Carnival Tango 13. Poor Little Pierrette 14. I Could Be Happy with You 15. Boy Friend -Selection Part 1 16. Boy Friend- Selection Part 2 17. Girl Friend- Selection Part 1 18. Girl Friend - Selection Part 2 19. Girl Friend 20. Mountain Greenery 21. Fancy Me Just Meeting You 22. Sometimes I'm Happy 23. Too Many Rings Around Rosie 24. I've Confessed to the Breeze 25. I Want to Be Happy 26. No, No, Nanette 27. Tea for Two 28. You Can Dance with Any Girl at All 29. Where Has My Hubby Gone Blues 30. Take a Little One-

Michael Bennett's 1975 valentine to Inchgypsies,Inch the dancers who are often treated as so much mobile scenery in Broadway musicals, is sometimes considered to have broken new ground with it's frank portraits of talented but frustrated performers. The score by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban is a favorite of Inchtheater peopleInch everywhere, but was designed to showcase the abilities of dancers rather than singers. Consequently, only the ballad InchWhat I Did for LoveInch has had a life outside of the show's context. This reissue of the original Broadway Cast Recording of a Chorus Line contained the previously unreleased InchMontage, Pt. 1 Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love,Inch plus extensive liner notes featuring memorabilia, cast listings, and previously unpublished photos. Album Tracks 1. I Hope I Get It - Company 2. I Can Do That - Wayne Cilento 3. At the Ballet - Carole Bishop, Kay Cole, Nancy Lane 4. Sing! - Renee Baughman, Don Percassi 5. Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love [Montage] - Company 6. Nothing - Priscilla Lopez 7. Music and the Mirror - Donna McKechnie 8. Dance Ten Looks Three - Pamela Blair 9. One - Company 10. What I Did for Love - Priscilla Lopez, Company 11. One (Reprise) Finale - Company

Album Tracks 1. Ov 2. Heaven on Their Minds 3. Everything's Alright 4. Hosanna 5. Everything's Alright (Reprise) 6. I Don't Know How to Love Him 7. Damned for All Time 8. Last Supper 9. Argument 10. Gethsemane 11. Herod's Song 12. Superstar 13. John 19 41 14. Could We Start Again Please