I've been under the impression that some of them are truly musically complete. To your knowledge, are one or more of these not truly musically complete: On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity, South Pacific, The Most Happy Fella, Lady in the Dark? I haven't checked against the scores. Maybe I should. I know that in the stage manager's script for the original production of Lady in the Dark, there is an indication of some offstage singing that's not in the score, but I can't blame JAY for not including that in a cast recording of a production that I guess didn't include it (and may not have had access to that script).
On the Town doesn't have some of the cut material that's on the DG, but it has several things not on the DG, including the lovely entr'acte, otherwise unrecorded, and what seems to be the only truly complete recording of the overture.
Do you have the 1966 Annie Get Your Gun score? I'm wondering if that rather dull transition music that I mentioned has either a repeat in the score or an indication to fade it out when specific stage action is complete.
When I re-read my reply to BroadwayTonyJ, I wondered if I had been somewhat unclear. I certainly wasn't as clear as I should have been. So trying to be clearer this time, I will say that based on online exchanges I've had with him, I think John Yap intended them to be literally musically complete. He seems to be under the impression that all of the TER/JAY recordings labeled as "Complete Recording" are musically complete (even after I've pointed out to him that things are missing from at least two of them). |
