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| Posted by: AlanScott 05:08 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
| In reply to: what no one has mentioned - StageDoorJohnny 07:51 pm EDT 08/31/18 | |
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| I think you got the titles mixed up, which is easy to do because they do get confusing, especially since they have been known by different titles in different productions. "Money Song" was the original title for the stage version, and "Money, Money" was the title listed on the soundtrack LP for the film, but the Broadway playbills for the Mendes-Marshall production listed it as "Money," while many call it "Money Makes the World Go Round." People sometimes call the original stage version "Sitting Pretty," perhaps because "Money Song" might refer to either version, while "Sitting Pretty" makes it clear which they mean. Anyway, I don't necessarily agree that the original stage version is for a supporting player with backup. The movie song is for two stars, but mostly because they were two stars. If it would have made sense for Sally to do it in the stage version, it could have been done by Haworth and Grey (although she probably would have needed easy choreography). Grey had replaced Warren Berlinger in Come Blow Your Horn and did it for eight or nine months, and he took over in Stop the World for the last three months of the Broadway run. This was after he had toured the latter, paired with Julie Newmar, for around six months all over the country. So I think he was thought of as a replacement guy more than an understudy. He spelled Tommy Steele when Steele took a week's vacation from Sixpence, but I'm not sure he was ever the standby. He may have been an unlisted standby for a while. Of course, he'd also done The Littlest Revue for the Phoenix, various Yiddish or Yiddish-flavored revues with his dad (all over the place), and he'd done stuff around the country, including Og in Finian's Rainbow more than once. |
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| re: what no one has mentioned | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 05:21 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: what no one has mentioned - AlanScott 05:08 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
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| I think you got the titles mixed up, which is easy to do because they do get confusing, especially since they have been known by different titles in different productions. "Money Song" was the original title for the stage version, and "Money, Money" was the title listed on the soundtrack LP for the film, but the Broadway playbills for the Mendes-Marshall production listed it as "Money," while many call it "Money Makes the World Go Round." People sometimes call the original stage version "Sitting Pretty," perhaps because "Money Song" might refer to either version, while "Sitting Pretty" makes it clear which they mean. FYI - the published version of the score (i.e. the original 1966 version of the show), and the Tams script for that version, do contain the title "Sitting Pretty." There is no mention of anything called "The Money Song" even though I know it has also been called that. |
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| re: what no one has mentioned | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:19 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: what no one has mentioned - Chromolume 05:21 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
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| Thanks. I think I had seen at some point that it was called "Sitting Pretty" in the published score and the Tams script, but it certainly has also been called "The Money Song." It was called "The Money Song" in the playbill for the original production, on the cast recording of the original production (LP and CD issues), in the program for the London production, and on the cast recording of that production (LP and CD issues), and in the published script. It's one of those oddities, but certainly most people who saw Cabaret in one of the incarnations of the original production or had the OBCR or the OLCR would have known it as "The Money Song," and even now on the CD issues it's called that. So it seems to me that it's probably more widely known as "The Money Song," for whatever that's worth. | |
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| "The Money Song" in the film version | |
| Posted by: RobertC (robertcollier930@gmail.com) 06:35 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: what no one has mentioned - AlanScott 06:19 pm EDT 09/01/18 | |
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| In one scene, Cliff, Sally and Max dance together on music from a Gramophone. The music they are dancing to is "The Money Song." (No lyrics). On the HIP-O LP release of the film's soundtrack, that track is called "Sitting Pretty." | |
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