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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0696998999725 Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: May 28, 2002 Studio: Sony Sales Rank: 1730 MPN: 89997
Amazon.com: The 2,700 performances of Lerner and Loewe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion gracefully spanned the Eisenhower and Camelot eras, then begat a wildly popular film version, whose 1965 Best Picture Oscar capped the show's decade of prominence. The crowning achievement of Lerner and Loewe's rich body of work began its recording life on this 1956 cast recording, a collection of performances that long ago became a ubiquitous and indispensable fixture of American musical theater. Indeed, it's hard to imagine anyone else but Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in the roles of the cockney Eliza Doolittle and her long-suffering mentor, Henry Higgins, delivering definitive versions of the show's embarrassment of riches: "Why Can't the English?," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "The Rain in Spain," "I Could Have Danced All Night," and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face." This new edition offers a digitally burnished take of the already glorious recording, now supplemented with a post-recording conversation track featuring Harrison, Andrews, Lerner, conductor Franz Allers, and original producer Goddard Lieberson, as well as a 1961 audio interview with Lerner and Loewe. --Jerry McCulley
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Rating: - Break On Through
In a watershed moment for Columbia Records, this original Broadway cast recording began the rapid climb of the company into the stratosphere of pop culture consciousness.
Rating: - My Fair Lady
I love the musical MY FAIR LADY. The video is helping me accomplish something musically. The video is well done, and I got it at such a wonderful price.
Rating: - Another purchase as promised.
I received the cd as I was told I would. Perfect in every way.
Rating: - My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
The music CD of the 1956 Original Broadway Cast of My Fair Lady is truly excellent. The recording is crisp and clear and the music is tops. We all love the movie with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, but ... Read More
Rating: - the very best recording of a great musical
This is a fabulous recording. The ebullient, joyful energy of the Broadway cast comes across magnificently: this was recorded, as the notes indicate, shortly after the show opened and the cast was thrilled ... Read More
