I agree that the overture for Take Me Along is terrific, especially considering (I agree) that it's a not-so-great score. I do know people who love the score, but I like only a couple of songs.
I just listened to the Illya, Darling entr'acte for the first time in a long time. I agree that it's lovely, and again a not-great score. Was it perhaps actually the overture? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, the Kritzerland release, which I don't have, placed it first, and the release was said to have put everything in show order.
Also agree about the Do I Hear a Waltz? overture being very good, especially the way it starts. It's too bad it wasn't recorded back in 1965, but it's nice to have it, if with a smaller orchestra, on the Pasadena recording. Still, it's fairly short, and I feel like this is a score with so many excellent melodies and a bigger overture or at least entr'acte might have worked very well. But we know Rodgers didn't like overtures. |
