- Judy Holliday Bells are Ringing Original Broadway Cast CD
- Artist: Original Cast
- Release Date: 1999
- Format: CD
- Record Label: Columbia USA
- Genre: Sountrack. Theater
- UPC: 074640200625
- RARE FORMAT CD
Lyricist/librettists Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote the musical Bells Are Ringing as a vehicle for Judy Holliday, their old partner from their nightclub act the Revuers. Holliday was an Academy Award-winning comic actress (Born Yesterday, 1950), but her musical talents had gone largely unregistered until now. Comden and Green set their original, New York-based story at an answering service, with Holliday as an operator who becomes involved with her clients, one in particular. Sydney Chaplin played that romantic interest, and both he and Holliday won Tony Awards. The show opened on November 29, 1956, and ran 924 performances. The original Broadway cast album reveals the production's strengths and weaknesses. The chief strength, of course, is Holliday, who barnstorms through comic numbers like "Is It a Crime?" but also handles romantic material such as the hit "The Party's Over" well. Jule Styne's music is typically tuneful, and Comden and Green are typically witty in such songs as "It's a Simple Little System" and "Drop That Name." Music composed by Jule Styne.
Principal cast includes: Judy Holliday, Sydney Chaplin, Jean Stapleton. Producer: Goddard Lieberson. Compilation producer: Thomas Z. Shepard. Engineers include: Fred Plaut, Bud Graham, Richard King. Includes liner notes Didier C. Deutsch and Thomas Z. Shepard. All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Track Listing
ACT ONE
1. Overture
2. Bells Are Ringing
3. It's A Perfect Relationship
4. On My Own
5. It's A Simple Little System
6. Is It A Crime?
7. Hello, Hello There!
8. I Met A Girl
9. Long Before I Knew You
ACT TWO
10. Mu-Cha-Cha
11. Just In Time
12. Drop That Name
13. The Party's Over
14. Salzburg
15. The Midas Touch
16. I'm Going Back
This CD is in like new, near mint condition, and includes all inserts and jewel case.
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