Coleman: Will Rogers Follies
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CY COLEMAN / NEIL DIAMOND / KANDER & EBB / RICHARD ADLER
Coleman: Will Rogers Follies
Keith Carradine & Dee Hoty / Original Broadway Cast Recording
[ Columbia / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 12 July 1991
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The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman.
It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like."
Tracks:
Act I
Prelude - "Let's Go Flying" - Chorus
"Will-a-Mania" - Ziegfeld's Favorite and Chorus
"Give a Man Enough Rope" - Will and Ziegfeld's cowboys
"It's a Boy!" - Clem and Girls Sextet (Will's sisters)
"It's a Boy! (Reprise)" - Clem
"My Unknown Someone" - Betty Blake
"The St. Louis Fair" - Girls Sextet (Betty's sisters)
"The Big Time" - Will, Betty, Will Jr., Mary, James, and Freddy
"My Big Mistake" - Betty Blake
"The Powder Puff Ballet" - Ziegfeld Girls
"Marry Me Now" - Will, Betty, and Ensemble
"I Got You" - Will, Betty and Ensemble
Act II
"Give a Man Enough Rope (Reprise)" - Will and Ziegfeld's cowboys
"Look Around" - Will Rogers
"Our Favorite Son" - Will, Ziegfeld's Favorite, Ziegfeld Girls, and Ziegfeld's cowboys
"No Man Left For Me" - Betty Blake
"Presents for Mrs. Rogers" - Will and Ziegfeld's cowboys
"Never Met a Man I Didn't Like" - Will Rogers
"Will-a-Mania (Reprise)" - Clem, Will, and Chorus
"Without You" - Betty Blake
"Never Met a Man I Didn't Like (Reprise)" - Will and Chorus
