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KISMET [musical show]
- Title
- KISMET [musical show]
- Alternate Title
- TIMBUKTU!
- Opening Date
- December 03, 1953
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- Orig prod. MUSIC: Alexander Borodin, arranged by Robert Wright & George Forrest. WORDS: Robert Wright & George Forrest. ORCH: Arthur Kay. COND: Louis Adrian. CAST: Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Joan Diener, Henry Calvin, Richard Kiley, Richard Oneto, Hal Hackett, Lucy Adonian. (Col OL-4850; CD/Col CK-32605; CD/Col SK-89252, with interviews in the recording studio; CD/Naxos(E) 8.120847, with addl material (ALB-2307). Excerpts: Morrow, Kiley: "Stranger in Paradise" (ALB-1119, ALB-2181) Kiley, chorus: "Night of My Nights" Drake, Morrow, Calvin, Kiley: "And This Is My Beloved" (ALB-1488).)
- 1955 film soundtrack. ORCH: mostly Conrad Salinger, Alexander Courage. COND: André Previn, Jeff Alexander. CAST: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone, Betty Wand, Barbara Allan. (CD/Rhino R2-72482; CD/CBS AK-45393. Incomplete: MGM 3281; CD/CBS(E) 70287. Excerpts: Keel, Blyth, Damone: "And This Is My Beloved" (ALB-975, ALB-1417, ALB-2273) Blyth: "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (ALB-975, ALB-1835, ALB-2273) Blyth, Damone: "Stranger in Paradise" (ALB-1273, ALB-1772, ALB-2273) Blyth, Keel: "Rhymes Have I" (ALB-2273) Gray: "Bored" (ALB-2307).)
- 1957 medley by Embassy Light Opera Company. COND: Johnny Gregory. (78/Embassy(E) WB-233)
- 1960 studio prod. COND: Eric Rogers. VOCALS: Bryan Johnson, Rosalind Page, Ross Gilmour, Michael Sammes, chorus. (Ace of Clubs(E) 1025, with Can-Can)
- 1961 studio prod. ORCH: Bobby Richards. COND: Kenneth Alwyn. CAST: Elizabeth Harwood, Grahame Laver, Peter Grant, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Diana Landor, chorus. (World Record Club(E) STP-68)
- 1963 studio prod. COND: Mantovani. CAST: Robert Merrill, Regina Resnik, Kenneth McKellar, Adele Leigh, Ian Wallace, chorus. (Dec(E) PFS-4035; CD/London 433019-2. Excerpt: Company: "And This Is My Beloved" (ALB-874).)
- 1964 studio prod. ORCH: Van Alexander, Warren Baker. COND: Van Alexander. CAST: Gordon MacRae, Dorothy Kirsten, Salli Terri, Bunny Bishop, Richard Levitt. (Cap SW-2022; CD/DRG 19094.)
- 1965 prod. ORCH: Arthur Kay. COND: Franz Allers. CAST: Alfred Drake & Henry Calvin of orig prod; Anne Jeffreys, Lee Venora, Richard Banke, Rudy Vejar, Albert Toigo, Anita Alpert. (RCA LSO-1112; CD/RCA Victor 09026-68040-2, with slightly more music. Excerpt: Drake, Calvin, Jeffreys, chorus: "Gesticulate" (ALB-1755).)
- 1978 album. VOCALS: Eartha Kitt (of 1978 prod, titled "Timbuktu!"), Johnny Mathis, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Della Reese, Isaac Hayes. (April-Blackwood SS-33782-01, titled "Timbuktu!")
- 1989 studio prod, incl songs from Timbuktu. ORCH: Arthur Kay. COND: John Owen Edwards. CAST: Judy Kaye, Valerie Masterson, Donald Maxwell, David Rendall, Richard Van Allan, Rosemary Ashe, Edmund Barham, Bonaventura Bottone, Bruce Hubbard. (CD/TER Records(E) 1170)
- 1991 studio prod, with a song dropped from the show and a song added to the 1955 film. ORCH: Arthur Kay, William Brohn. COND: Paul Gemignani. CAST: Samuel Ramey, Julia Migenes, Jerry Hadley, Ruth Ann Swenson, Mandy Patinkin, Dom DeLuise. (CD/Sony SK-46438. Excerpt: Swenson, Hadley: "Stranger in Paradise" (ALB-2205).)
- Album (c 1953). Vic Damone: "Stranger in Paradise" Georgia Gibbs: "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" Ross Bagdasarian: "Not since Nineveh," "Zubbediya" (45/Mercury album 1-3160. Excerpt: "Not Since Nineveh" (ALB-2307).)
- Records by members of orig cast. Doretta Morrow: "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (1959: ALB-294) Alfred Drake: "Stranger in Paradise" (1961, TV, with Marion Marlowe: ALB-1510)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19531203
Last Updated: 08-23-2012