Track Listing

1. Act 1: Overture
2. Act 1: Charity's Theme
3. Act 1: You Should See Yourself
4. Act 1: Big Spender
5. Act 1: Charity's Soliloquy
6. Act 1: Rich Man's Frug (Extended Verion - First Release)
7. Act 1: If My Friends Could See Me Now
8. Act 1: Too Many Tomorrows
9. Act 1: There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This
10. Act 2: I'm The Bravest Individual
11. Act 2: The Rhythm Of Life
12. Act 2: Baby, Dream Your Dream
13. Act 2: Sweet Charity
14. Act 2: Where Am I Going?
15. Act 2: I'm A Brass Band
16. Act 2: I Love To Cry At Weddings
17. Act 2: Finale: If My Friends Could See Me Now
18. I Love To Cry At Weddings (First Release)
19. You Wanna Bet
20. Where Am I Going?
21. If My Friends Could See Me Now
22. Interviews: Introduction
23. Interviews: Curtain Calls
24. Interviews: Party
25. Interviews: Ethel Merman
26. Interviews: Helen Gallagher
27. Interviews: Neil Simon
28. Interviews: Gwen Verdon

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13667 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Cast Recording
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.com
This document of Bob Fosse's 1966 Broadway production is almost enough to make one forget the dreadful and dated 1968 film version with Shirley MacLaine (who, though brilliant, never rose above the film's concessions to the era--who'll ever forget Sammy Davis Jr.'s "psychedelic" production number on "The Rhythm of Life"?). Ironically, it was the late, great Fosse's film debut. More's the pity he simply didn't just provide a visual document of his original Broadway show; after all, it was Fosse who'd conceived the notion of a musical comedy based on Fellini's 1957 film Nights of Cabiria as a vehicle for Broadway star Gwen Verdon (Mrs. Fosse at the time) and then put writer Neil Simon together with composer Cy Coleman and lyricist Dorothy Fields. Onstage, it simply worked great. The score produced two huge hit standards--"Big Spender" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now"--and proved that fantasies about hookers (even though Charity's called a "taxi dancer" here) with hearts of gold could provide mainstream entertainment years before Julia Roberts became Pretty Woman. Sony gives the rerelease its regular Broadway Masterworks series update treatment, with previously unreleased tracks, elongated songs (featuring material cut from the original album), interviews from opening night, and even composer Coleman performing three songs from the show with an orchestra for a long-unavailable album he cut in the late '60s. --Bill Holdship