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Boys From Syracuse / L.C.R.

Boys From Syracuse / L.C.R.
From Decca U.S.

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Track Listing

  1. Overture - Orchestra
  2. I Had Twins - John Adams
  3. Dear Old Syracuse - Bob Monkhouse
  4. What Can You Do With A Man? - Maggie Fitzgibbon
  5. Falling In Love With Love - Lynn Kennington
  6. The Shortest Day Of The Year - Denis Quilley
  7. This Can't Be Love - Bob Monkhouse
  8. Ladies Of The Evening - John Adams
  9. He And She - Ronnie Corbett
  10. You Have Cast Your Shadow On The Sea - Bob Monkhouse
  11. Come With Me - John Adams
  12. Sing For Your Supper - Maggie Fitzgibbon
  13. Oh, Diogenes! - Ensemble
  14. Finale - The Company
  15. Oh, Diogenes! - Orchestra
  16. Sing For Your Supper - Orchestra
  17. Falling In Love With Love - Orchestra
  18. You Have Cast Your Shadow On The Sea - Orchestra
  19. This Can't Be Love - Orchestra
  20. The Shortest Day Of The Year - Orchestra

Product Details

  • Released on: 2002-06-25
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Import

Editorial Reviews

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While not as edgy as Pal Joey or as studded with consistently great songs as Babes in Arms, The Boys from Syracuse is one of the best, funniest Rodgers and Hart concoctions. Freely--very freely--adapted from Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, the show sees the creative team letting loose with mistaken identities, lost twins, and the eternal war of the sexes, injecting the daffy plot with classics such as "This Can't Be Love," "Falling in Love with Love," and "The Shortest Day of the Year." The London cast of this long-out-of-print recording is game, even if it's not quite as good as the one in the 1997 Encores! production. In "Sing for Your Supper," for instance, Lynn Kennington, Paula Hendrix, and Maggie Fitzgibbon don't even get close to the divine harmonies of Rebecca Luker, Debbie Gravitte, and Sarah Uriarte Berry. What makes the CD really interesting is the bonus material tagged at the end, which consists of Boys' six best-known songs interpreted by Rudy Vallee and Frances Langford. Recorded six weeks after the show opened in 1938, they were introduced at the time as a "souvenir album" from the show, predating what we now know as cast recordings. --Elisabeth Vincentelli