| re: CORRECTION: Regarding frequency of HERE'S LOVE productions in Chicago area | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 02:15 pm EST 01/05/19 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 02:14 pm EST 01/05/19 | |
| In reply to: re: CORRECTION: Regarding frequency of HERE'S LOVE productions in Chicago area - Alcindoro 03:18 am EST 01/05/19 | |
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| I was 15 years old when I purchased the Here's Love LP in '63. I too was curious about "The Plastic Alligator" and "Nothing in Common". The '92 Sony Broadway CD release has the same numbers as the LP, although the liner notes refer to "Plastic Alligator" as a song of advice Shellhammer sings to his sales clerks to help them get shoppers to buy an over-stocked Christmas toy. You can find a performance of the song on YouTube from a high school production. I just watched it -- it's actually very well done, even delightful. The number is a combination of recitative and singing -- the melody is very similar to that of "That Man Over There". When I saw Here's Love some years ago, the number (performed, of course, by mature adult actors portraying sophisticated Manhattanites) came across as being pretty stupid. I think it works a lot better when you having enthusiastic high schoolers doing it. I've noticed that as early as '98 Columbia Broadway Masterworks began re-issuing much expanded releases of classic Broadway musicals on CD. Recordings of L'il Abner, House of Flowers, Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, South Pacific, Finian's Rainbow, Sound of Music, Cabaret, West Side Story, On the Town, Annie, A Chorus Line, and many others were re-released with material that was not on earlier CDs. To my knowledge Here's Love has never received an expanded release. Regarding Anya, Walter Willison states in the CD liner notes that the original LP jacket was printed before the show began performances and contained a number of errors (like listing songs that apparently were either cut or reworked). The song you mention is not listed on IBDB. In addition, Kritzerland's reputation for issuing never before released material on its CDs of Broadway musicals and movie soundtracks is pretty much unmatched in the industry. Most likely if it's not on the Anya CD, it doesn't exist |
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