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CARMEN JONES [musical show]
- Title
- CARMEN JONES [musical show]
- Opening Date
- December 02, 1943
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- Orig prod. MUSIC: Georges Bizet. WORDS: Oscar Hammerstein II. ORCH: Robert Russell Bennett. COND: Joseph Littau. CAST: Muriel Smith, Luther Saxon, Carlotta Franzell, Glenn Bryant, June Hawkins, Cozy Cole (drums). (78/Dec 12" album 366; CD/Dec 440-066-780-2, with addl material; CD/Pearl(E) GEM-0099, with addl material; CD/Naxos(E) 8.120875, with soundtrack excerpts. Incomplete: Dec 8014; CD/MCA(J) MVCM-379; CD/Prism(E) PLATCD-995. Excerpts: Hawkins: "Beat Out Dat Rhythm on a Drum" (ALB-1548) Smith, chorus: "Dat's Love" (alt take: ALB-1703).)
- 1947 radio prod. COND: Lynn Murray. CAST: Muriel Smith, Luther Saxon, & Elton J Warren of orig cast; Irving Barnes, Valerie Black, Juana Hernandez, Earle Sidnor, Maurice Ellis. NARRATOR: Howard Lindsay. (CD/AEI Records 045. Excerpts: "I Told Your Maw/You Talk Just like My Maw," "Murder! Murder!/Carmen Jones Is Going to Jail," "If You Would Only Come Away" (CD/Prism(E) PLATCD-995)
- 1954 film soundtrack. COND: Herschel B Gilbert. CAST: Marilyn Horne (for Dorothy Dandridge), Le Vern Hutcherson (for Harry Belafonte), Marvin Hayes (for Joe Adams), Olga James, Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Bernice Peterson (for Diahann Carroll), Joe Crawford (for Nick Stewart). (RCA LM-1881; CD/RCA 1881-2-R. Incomplete: CD/Naxos(E) 8.120875, with orig prod. Excerpt: Bailey: "Beat Out Dat Rhythm on a Drum" (ALB-1496).)
- 1967 studio prod. ORCH: Bobby Richards. COND: Kenneth Alwyn. CAST: Grace Bumbry, George Webb, Elisabeth Welch, Ena Babb, Thomas Baptiste, Ursula Connors, Edward Darling. (World Record Club(E) ST-181; Heliodor HS-25046; CD/DRG 19057; CD/Classics for Pleasure(E) 3359722, with Porgy and Bess.)
- 1991 London prod. COND: Henry Lewis. CAST: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Sharon Benson, Damon Evans, Michael Austin, Gregg Baker, Karen Parks, Carolyn Sebron. (EMI(E) CDC-7-54351-2)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19431202
Last Updated: 08-23-2012