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LADY IN THE DARK [musical show]
- Title
- LADY IN THE DARK [musical show]
- Opening Date
- January 23, 1941
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- 1941 album by Gertrude Lawrence & male quartet of orig cast. MUSIC: Kurt Weill. WORDS: Ira Gershwin. ORCH: Stanley Green. COND: Leonard Joy. "My Ship," "The Saga of Jenny," "This Is New," "One Life to Live," "O, Fabulous One," "Huxley," "Girl of the Moment," "The Princess of Pure Delight" (78/Vic album P-60; RCA 10" LRT-7001, with Nymph Errant; ALB-1686; CD/Prism(E) PLATCD-999 (ALB-2142). Incomplete: ALB-1747. Excerpts: "My Ship" (ALB-711, ALB-1186, ALB-1548, ALB-1559, ALB-1755, ALB-1782, ALB-1952, ALB-2304) "The Saga of Jenny" (ALB-1180, ALB-1548, ALB-1559, ALB-1825, ALB-1849, ALB-1952, ALB-2304).)
- 1941 album by Hildegarde & Robert Hannon. COND: Harry Sosnik. "The Saga of Jenny," "This Is New," "Girl of the Moment," "My Ship," "One Life to Live" (78/Dec album 208; ALB-2082. Excerpt: "The Saga of Jenny" (ALB-1817, ALB-2142).)
- 1941 records by Danny Kaye of orig prod. COND: Maurice Abravanel (of orig prod). "It's Never Too Late to Mendelssohn" (1941: 78/Col 36163, ALB-107, ALB-527, ALB-1686, ALB-1773, ALB-2142, ALB-2176) "The Princess of Pure Delight" (1941: 78/Col 36042, ALB-107, ALB-527, ALB-1773, ALB-1817, ALB-2142) "Jenny" (1941: 78/Col 36025, ALB-107, ALB-527, ALB-1773, ALB-1817, ALB-2142) "The Trial of Liza Elliott/Tschaikowsky" (1941: 78/Col 36025, ALB-107, ALB-527, ALB-1180, ALB-1548, ALB-1613, ALB-1686, ALB-1773, ALB-2142, ALB-2304. Incomplete: ALB-1559.) "One Life to Live" (1941: 78/Col 36163, ALB-527, ALB-1773, ALB-1817, ALB-2142) "My Ship" (1941: 78/Col 36042, ALB-527, ALB-1773, ALB-1817, ALB-2142) "Tschaikowsky" (1952: ALB-6A
- 1943 film soundtrack. Chorus: "Girl of the Moment" Ray Milland, Ginger Rogers, chorus: "The Greatest Show on Earth" Rogers, chorus: "The Saga of Jenny" (ALB-402, ALB-1134) Rogers: "Suddenly It's Spring" (ALB-588, ALB-1139)
- 1950 radio prod. CAST: Gertrude Lawrence & Macdonald Carey of orig prod; Arthur Vinton, Hume Cronyn, chorus. (AEI Records 1146; CD/AEI Records CD-003. Excerpts: Lawrence: "The Saga of Jenny," "My Ship" (ALB-1013, ALB-1747) Lawrence, Carey: "My Ship" (ALB-311, ALB-1747).)
- 1952 record by Gertrude Lawrence of orig cast. "Jenny" (ALB-5A
- 1954 TV prod (studio recording). ORCH: Irwin Kostal. COND: Charles Sanford. CAST: Ann Sothern, Carleton Carpenter, chorus. (RCA LM-1882; CD/Sepia(E) 1052, with Down in the Valley. Excerpt: Sothern: "The Saga of Jenny" (ALB-129, ALB-1191, ALB-1348).)
- 1954 TV prod soundtrack. ORCH: Irwin Kostal. COND: Charles Sanford. CAST: Ann Sothern, Carleton Carpenter, chorus. (CD/AEI Records CD-041 (ALB-1747), with addl material)
- 1963 studio prod. ORCH: Kurt Weill. COND: Lehman Engel. CAST: Rise Stevens, Adolph Green, John Reardon, Stephanie Augustine, Kenneth Bridges, Roger White. (Col OS-2390; CD/Sony MHK-62869 (ALB-1773), with addl material. Excerpts: Stevens: "My Ship" (ALB-1261) "The Saga of Jenny" (ALB-2205).)
- 1997 London prod. ORCH: Kurt Weill. COND: Mark W Dorrell. CAST: Maria Friedman, Steven Edward Moore, Adrian Dunbar, James Dreyfus, Paul Shelley, chorus. (CD/Jay(E) 1278)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19410123
Last Updated: 08-23-2012