Weill: Street Scene

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KURT WEILL
Weill: Street Scene
Kristine Ciesinski, Janis Kelly, Bonaventura Bottone, Richard van Allan, Catherine Zeta Jones / English National Opera, Carl Davis

[ Jay Productions / 2 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Thursday 9 November 1989

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Street Scene is an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). Written in 1946 and premiered in Philadelphia that year, Street Scene is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1929 play of the same name by Rice.

It was Weill who referred to the piece as an "American opera", intending it as a groundbreaking synthesis of European traditional opera and American musical theater. He received the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score for his work, after the Broadway premiere in 1947. Considered far more an opera than a musical, Street Scene is regularly produced by professional opera companies and has never been revived on Broadway. Musically and culturally, even dramatically, the work inhabits the mid-ground between Weill's Threepenny Opera (1928) and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957).

The British premiere was a one-night only charity performance at the Palace Theatre in London on Sunday 26 April 1987. The show featured a starry cast of principals and walk-ons, including Rosemary Ashe, Maria Friedman, Alec McCowen, Matt Zimmerman, Kevin Colson, Steven Berkoff and Elaine Paige. A production by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum Theatre in 1989 included Catherine Zeta-Jones as Mae Jones. (Wiki)

This is the very first complete Original Cast Recording of Weill's opus. Produced by John Yap and Engineered by John Kurlander, JAY Records' STREET SCENE includes the entire score and dialogue.

Tracks:

CD 1
Introduction
English National Opera Orchestra
Ain't It Awful, The Heat?
Susan Bullock, Meriel Dickinson, Angela Hickey
I've Got A Marble And A Star
Neil Patterson
Scene 1
Kristine Ciesinski, Daniel Ison, Meriel Dickinson, Susan Bullock, Angela Hickey
Get A Load Of That
Meriel Dickinson, Susan Bullock, Angela Hickey
Scene 2
Kristine Ciesinski, Susan Bullock, Meriel Dickinson, Angela Hickey, Arwel Huw Morgan, Bonaventura Bottone, Harry Nicoll
When A Woman Has A Baby
Harry Nicoll, Susan Bullock, Meriel Dickinson, Angela Hickey
Scene 3
Richard Van Allan, Kristine Ciesinski, Women
She Shouldn't Be Staying Out Nights
Richard Van Allan, Kristine Ciesinski, Susan Bullock, Meriel Dickinson, John Kitchiner, Angela Hickey, Children
Somehow I Never Could Believe
Kristine Ciesinski
Scene 4
Edwin Craig, Kristine Ciesinski, Meriel Dickinson, Susan Bullock, Angela Hickey, John Kitchiner
Get A Load Of That (Reprise)
Susan Bullock, Meriel Dickinson, Angela Hickey, John Kitchiner, Arwel Huw Morgan
Scene 5
Meriel Dickinson, Susan Bullock, John Kitchiner, Arwel Huw Morgan, Peter Bronder
Ice Cream Sextet
Peter Bronder, Susan Bullock, Meriel Dickinson, Arwel Huw Morgan, John Kitchinson, Angela Hickey, Simon Masterton-Smith
Scene 6
Kristine Ciesinski, Richard Van Allan, Meriel Dickinson, Peter Bronder, Terry Jenkins, Susan Bullock, Blythe Duff
Let Things Be Like They Always Was
Richard Van Allan
Scene 7
Susan Bullock, Peter Bronder, Arwel Huw Morgan, John Kitchiner, Richard Van Allan
Scene 8
John Kitchiner, Susan Bullock, Kristine Ciesinski, Moira Clarke, Children, Company
Wrapped In A Ribbon And Tied In A Bow
Claire Daniels, Moira Clarke, Company
Scene 9
Kristine Ciesinski, Richard Van Allan, Bonaventura Bottone, Edwin Craig, Daniel Ison, Women
Lonely House
Bonaventura Bottone
Scene 10
Janis Kelly, Simon Masterton-Smith, Angela Hickey, Susan Bullock
Wouldn't You Like To Be On Broadway
Simon Masterton-Smith, Janis Kelly, Meriel Dickinson
What Good Would The Moon Be?
Janis Kelly
Scene 11
Janis Kelly, Simon Masterton-Smith, Richard Van Allan, Harry Nicoll
What Good Would The Moon Be? (Reprise)
Janis Kelly
Scene 12
Catherine Zeta Jones, Philip Day, Janis Kelly, Harry Nicoll
Moon Faced, Starry Eyed
Catherine Zeta Jones, Philip Day
Dance
English National Opera Orchestra

CD 2:
Scene 13
Catherine Zeta Jones, Philip Day, Janis Kelly, Harry Nicoll, Matthew Costello, Bonaventura Bottone, Meriel Dickinson
Remember That I Care
Janis Kelly, Bonaventura Bottone
Finaletto
Janis Kelly, Harry Nicoll, Richard Van Allen, Bonaventura Bottone, Raynor Bourton
Introduction Act Two
English National Opera Orchestra
Catch Me If You Can
Bonaventura Bottone, Janis Kelly, Children
Scene 14
Janis Kelly, Bonaventura Bottone, Blythe Duff, Terry Jenkins, Peter Bronder, Susan Bullock, Kristine Ciesinski, Meriel Dickin
Scene 15
Richard Van Allan, Janis Kelly, Kristine Ciesinski
There'll Be Trouble
Kristine Ciesinski, Richard Van Allan, Janis Kelly
I Tried To Be A Good Wife To Him
Kristine Ciesinski, Janis Kelly
Scene 16
Janis Kelly, Kristine Ciesinski, Daniel Ison, John Kitchiner
A Boy Like You
Kristine Ciesinski, Daniel Ison
Scene 17
Janis Kelly, Kristine Ciesinski, Blythe Duff, Bonaventura Bottone, Matthew Costello
We'll Go Away Together
Janis Kelly, Bonaventura Bottone
Scene 18
Bonaventura Bottone, Janis Kelly, Simon Masterton-Smith, Harry Nicoll, Kristine Ciesinski, Edwin Craig
The Murder
Company
The Woman Who Lived Up There
Bonaventura Bottone, Janis Kelly, Meriel Dickinson, Company
Interlude
English National Opera Orchestra
Scene 19
Fiammetta Doria, Judith Douglas, Kevin Newsham
Lullaby
Judith Douglas, Flammetta Doria
Scene 20
Janis Kelly, Bonaventura Bottone, Kevin Newsham, Neil Patterson, Blythe Duff, Arwel Huw Morgan, Meriel Dickinson
I Loved Her Too (Finale)
Richard Van Allan, Janis Kelly, Raynor Bourton, Company
Don't Forget The Lilac Bush (Finale)
Bonaventura Bottone, Janis Kelly, Blythe Duff, Angela Hickey, Meriel Dickinson
Ain't It Awful, The Heat (Finale)
Susan Bullock, Meriel Dickinson, Angela Hickey, Terry Jenkins, Chorus