LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (The Broadway Musical) Jerry Herman RCA 1983 1st Ed. (M)
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (The Broadway Musical) Jerry Herman RCA 1983 1st Ed. (M):
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La Cage Aux Folles (The Broadway Musical) RCA Red Seal HBC1-4824 (1983 1st Ed. pressing)
TracklistA1–Unknown ArtistPrelude3:00A2–Les Cagelles* AndCompany*We Are What We Are3:53A3–Albin (5)AndCompany*A Little More Macara4:43A4–Jean-Michel (3)With Anne On My Arm3:35A5–Georges (8)AndAlbin (5)With You On My Arm2:35A6–Georges (8)Song On The Sand (La Da Da Da)3:55A7–Albin (5)AndLes Cagelles*La Cage Aux Folles7:35B1–Albin (5)I Am What I Am3:02B2–Georges (8)AndAlbin (5)Song On The Sand (Reprise)1:50B3–Georges (8),Albin (8)Look Over There2:52B5–Georges (8),Mme. Dindon,Jean-Michel (3),DindonAndJacob (29)Cocktail Counterpoint1:52B6–Albin (5),Jacqueline (14)AndPatrons*The Best Of Times5:35B7–Jean-Michel (3)AndGeorges (8)Look Over There (Reprise)1:11B8–Unknown ArtistThe Finale5:49*(all photos are of the actual item)
- Recorded At–RCA Studios
- Pressed By–Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria
- Arranged By [Dance Music]–G. Harrell
- Arranged By [Vocals]–Donald Pippin
- Art Direction–J. J. Stelmach
- Copyist [Music Preparation Supervisor]–Evan Morris (2),Mathilde Pincus
- Cover [Art]–Bill Berta
- Liner Notes–Harvey Fierstein
- Music By, Lyrics By–Jerry Herman
- Orchestrated By–Jim Tyler
- Other [Book By]– Harvey Fierstein
- Performer [Albin]–George Hearn
- Performer [Anne]–Leslie Stevens (3)
- Performer [Edouard Dindon]–Jay Garner (2)
- Performer [Francis]–Brian Kelly (15)
- Performer [Georges]–Gene Barry
- Performer [Jacob]–William Thomas, Jr.
- Performer [Jacqueline]–Elizabeth Parrish (2)
- Performer [Jean-Michel]–John Weiner (3)
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Angelique]–Deborah Phelan
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Bitelle]–Linda Haberman
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Chantal]–David Cahn (2)
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Clo-Clo]–Sam Singhaus
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Dermah]–Frank DiPasquale
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Hanna]–David Engel
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Lo Singh]–Eric Lamp
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Mercedes]–David Evans (5)
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Monique]–Dennis Callahan (2)
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Nicole]–John Dolf
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Odette]–Dan O\'Grady
- Performer [Les Cagelles, Phaedra]–David Scala
- Performer [Marie Dindon]–Merle Louise
- Performer [Renaud]–Walter Charles
- Performer [St. Tropez Townspeople, Babette]–Marie Santell
- Performer [St. Tropez Townspeople, Colette]–Jennifer Smith (4)
- Performer [St. Tropez Townspeople, Etienne]–Jay Pierce (3)
- Performer [St. Tropez Townspeople, Hercule]–Jack Neubeck
- Performer [St. Tropez Townspeople, Mme. Renaud]–Sydney Anderson
- Performer [St. Tropez Townspeople, Paulette]–Betsy Craig
- Performer [St. Tropez Townspeople, Pepe]–Ken Ward (2)
- Performer [St. Tropez Townspeople, Tabarro]–Mark Waldrop (2)
- Performer [Swing Performer]–Drew Geraci,Jan Leigh Herndon,Leslie Simmons,Robert Brubach
- Photography By–Martha Swope
- Producer–Thomas Z. Shepard
- Barcode (Text): 0 7863-54824-1 (obsolete)
- AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann
- For songwriter Jerry Herman, the challenge of a new Broadway musical is to find a fresh way to frame his admittedly old-fashioned, show biz approach to creating traditional entertainment. Through three consecutive flops, Dear World (1969), Mack & Mabel (1974), and The Grand Tour (1979), after his two massive hits Hello, Dolly! (1964) and Mame (1966), Herman failed in that endeavor, meanwhile watching rivals Stephen Sondheim perfect the \"concept\" musical and Andrew Lloyd Webber the rock musical. But with La Cage aux Folles, Herman became newly current and even politically courageous, to some extent because of events taking place outside the theater. When the French-Italian film adaptation of Jean Poiret\'s play became a big box office hit in the late ‘70s, it was a conventional farce with a typically Gallic twist, the old story, in this case with the bohemian parents being a gay couple who run a nightclub for female impersonators in St. Tropez. What happened in the years between the film\'s success and the opening of the musical on August 21, 1983, however, was the AIDS crisis, with the consequent galvanizing of the gay community, especially in New York. Thus, the show became not just a musical comedy, but also a statement of gay pride, with a script by up-and-coming gay playwright Harvey Fierstein and a score by Herman that, even if it was typically tame musically, was full of the same subtext, as, for instance, Albin (George Hearn) defiantly sang the anthem \"I Am What I Am,\" speaking not just for female impersonators on the French Riviera, but for gay people everywhere. And if \"The Best of Times\" was another of Herman\'s catchy, yet sing-songy production numbers, its line, \"As for tomorrow, well, who knows?,\" spoke to listeners fearful of imminent death from an untreatable illness. All of which is to say that Herman found that fresh context for his usual shtick, even if it was a dark one. But the context added weight, making La Cage aux Folles the musical more substantial than the play or film. And it helped that Hearn could be both giddy and assertive, while his partner, the TV actor Gene Barry, surprisingly could sing. The result was Herman\'s biggest hit in years. The 2008 reissue of the cast album contains a bonus track in which the songwriter recalls how he came to work on the show and to write \"I Am What I Am.\"
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (The Broadway Musical) Jerry Herman RCA 1983 1st Ed. (M):
$5.99