Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Overture - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
2. Beautiful Girls - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
3. Don't Look At Me - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
4. Waiting For The Girls Upstairs - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
5. Rain On The Roof - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
6. Ah, Paree! - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
7. Broadway Baby - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
8. The Road You Didn't Take - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
9. In Buddy's Eyes - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
10. Who's That Woman - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
11. I'm Still Here - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
12. Too Many Mornings - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
13. The Right Girl - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
14. One More Kiss - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
15. Could I Leave You? - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
16. Loveland - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic
17. You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through - Concert Cast/New York Philharmonic

Disc 2:

1. Buddy's Blues
2. Losing My Mind
3. The Story of Lucy and Jessie
4. Live, Laugh, Love
5. Finale: Waiting for the Girls Upstairs and Beautiful Girls (reprises)
6. Stavisky: Theme from "Stavisky"
7. Salon at the Claridge #1
8. Arlette by Day
9. Auto Show
10. Easy Life
11. Secret of Night
12. Erna
13. Distant Past
14. Arlette by Night
15. Airport at Biarritz
16. Trotsky at Saint-Palais
17. Montalvo at Biarritz
18. Operetta
19. Arlette and Stavisky
20. Recent Past
21. Salon at the Claridge #2
22. Suite at the Claridge
23. Old House
24. Goodbye Arlette
25. Hideout at Chamonix
26. Erna Remembered
27. The Future
28. Women and Death
29. Theme from "Stavisky"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56752 in Music
• Released on: 1986-01-22
• Number of discs: 2
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .42 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

From Amazon.com
Since the original Broadway cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Follies was a truncated affair that turned out to be both a disappointment and a disservice to a brilliant show with a brilliant cast, this 1985 concert performance from New York's Avery Fisher Hall set out to record the whole score, a set of pastiches of old songs and songwriters as performed by a cast of faded stars and the visions of their younger selves. The result was a star-studded roster backed by the New York Philharmonic led by Paul Gemignani, with principals Barbara Cook, Mandy Patinkin, Lee Remick, and George Hearn, supported by the likes of Carol Burnett, Liliane Montevecchi, and Liz Callaway. Even these stars can't quite match the original cast, and the results are somewhat uneven--from Cook's yearning "Losing My Mind" to Patinkin's you-love-it-or-you-hate-it schizophrenia in "Buddy's Blues." Other highlights include Elaine Stritch's wry "Broadway Baby," the two young couples' interplay in "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through," and the electrifying audience reactions to "Beautiful Girls" and "Who's That Woman?" (A documentary video was released, but unfortunately, it did not contain the complete show.) As a bonus, this two-CD set includes 45 minutes of instrumental music Sondheim composed for the 1974 French film Stavisky, including two melodies that had been cut from the original production of Follies. --David Horiuchi