This is totally off-topic. Please tell me what this has to do with
Brady BMs (bowel movements).
cinemediapromo@yahoo.com wrote:
> For Immediate Release
>
> First Time On CD!
> Candide, The King And I, My Fair Lady, South Pacific
> FOUR CLASSIC BROADWAY MUSICALS
> SING AGAIN IN ESSENTIAL STEREO REVIVAL RECORDINGS
> FROM THE MASTERWORKS BROADWAY CATALOGUE
> DIGITALLY REMASTERED FOR THEIR CD DEBUT
> CDs IN STORES AUGUST 29, 2006
>
> Giorgio Tozzi, Ian Richardson, George Rose
> Among The Stars Of These Long-Unavailable Recordings
>
> A quartet of legendary Broadway musicals - Candide, The King and I,
> My Fair Lady and South Pacific - gets a fresh airing in Masterworks
> Broadway's restoration of four essential cast recordings never before
> been issued on CD. Originally recorded in stereo and each a more
> complete representation of the show than its original cast recording,
> the four Masterworks Broadway titles have been remastered for this
> release from original analogue source tapes using Sony's Direct
> Stream Digital (DSD) System and SBM Direct to achieve the best in
> restored sound. Candide, The King and I, My Fair Lady and South
> Pacific will be in stores August 29, 2006.
>
> Masterworks Broadway is a new imprint of Sony BMG Masterworks,
> showcasing the label's commitment to the great music of Broadway past
> and present. Masterworks Broadway will explore the riches of its
> combined catalogue of show recordings, originally made for RCA/BMG
> Classics and Columbia/CBS Masterworks/Sony Classical, in addition to
> recordings of new musical productions, such as the current hit The
> Wedding Singer, the upcoming revival of A Chorus Line and a deluxe
> 10th-anniversary edition of Chicago.
>
> All four recordings have been repackaged with original cover art, and
> each booklet is illustrated with rarely seen session photos from the
> Sony BMG Archives.
>
> The two Rodgers and Hammerstein titles - The King and I and South
> Pacific - are recordings of lavish Music Theater of Lincoln Center
> revivals, which were cast and supervised by Richard Rodgers himself in
> 1964 and 1967, respectively. Original cast recordings of both shows
> predated stereo recording, so these are the only stereo theatrical
> recordings that directly reflect Rodgers' famously specific ideas
> about how the scores should sound.
>
> For South Pacific - a recording produced by Edward Kleban, who would
> later become the lyricist of A Chorus Line - the composer cast the
> operatic bass Giorgio Tozzi for the role of Emile de Becque (Tozzi
> "ghosted" the songs for actor Rossano Brazzi on the soundtrack of
> the 1958 film version) and, as the irrepressible Ensign Nellie Forbush,
> Broadway veteran Florence Henderson, shortly before she entered the
> pop-culture pantheon as the mom on TV's The Brady Bunch.
>
> The CD release of The King and I includes a brief track - "Western
> People Funny" - that was recorded at the original sessions but
> McGavin headline as Anna and the King of Siam, with richly sung
> supporting performances by Tony winner Patricia Neway (The Sound of
> Music) as Lady Thiang, Lee Venora as Tuptim and Frank Porretta as Lun
> Tha. This musically impeccable interpretation - led by Stevens'
> gracious Anna and McGavin as a powerful but less domineering King than
> Yul Brynner - might well be taken as Rodgers' final word on the
> show.
>
> The Candide recording captures the uproarious energy - dialogue as
> well as musical numbers - of director Harold Prince's iconoclastic
> reinterpretation of this problematic musical, first staged in Brooklyn
> in 1973 and transferred to Broadway the following year for a lengthy
> run that resulted in five Tony Awards and a special citation from the
> New York Drama Critics Circle. With its cheerfully profane new book,
> some fresh Stephen Sondheim lyrics and zesty orchestrations, this
> Candide is a radical but hugely entertaining departure from the much
> grander original production, featuring infectious performances from
> Mark Baker, Maureen Brennan, Lewis J. Stadlen and June Gable.
>
> The 1976 recording of Broadway's 20th anniversary revival of My Fair
> Lady gives a new lease on life to a show inevitably haunted by the
> voices of Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and Stanley Holloway on the
> original cast recordings from New York and London. Christine Andreas,
> who is currently starring in the national tour of The Light in the
> Piazza, had her breakthrough on Broadway as Eliza Doolittle in this
> production, opposite Ian Richardson's distinctive Henry Higgins and
> George Rose's Tony-winning portrayal of Alfred P. Doolittle. The
> sumptuous recording includes "The Embassy Waltz," which did not
> make the cut on either of the show's original cast recordings.
>
> Sony Classical, RCA Red Seal and deutsche harmonia mundi are labels of
> SONY BMG MASTERWORKS. For e-mail updates and information regarding RCA
> Red Seal, Sony Classical and deutsche harmonia mundi artists,
> promotions, tours and repertoire, please visit
> www.sonybmgmasterworks.com.
>
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>
> CONTACT: cinemediapromo@yahoo.com
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