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| | Plain and Fancy (1955 Original Broadway Cast) | | | Music Artist : | | Albert Hague | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Drg | | Release Date : | | 2003-02-11 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $9.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Overture
2. You Can't Miss It
3. It Wonders Me
4. Plenty Of Pennsylvania
5. Young And Foolish
6. Why Not Katie
7. It's A Helluva A Way To Run A Love Affair
8. This Is All Very New To Me
9. Plain We Live
10. How Do You Raise A Barn
11. Follow Your Heart
12. City Mouse, Country Mouse
13. I'll Show Him
14. Take Your Time And Take Your Pick
15. Finale
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 So & So
Submitted on: 2009-04-05 |
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| Interesting subject, nice voices but dull melodies. There's not even one song you'll remember after you listen to this. I would recommend it to Broadway musical cd collectors and Barbara Cook fans only. The rest, please stay with West Side Story, Sound of Music or Cabaret... |
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 More plain than fancy
Submitted on: 2008-11-18 |
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The fancy--
The story; I believe it is the intriguing story line that made the show what one New York critic called "a moderate success."
Barbara Cook, David Daniels, Barbara Cook, and Barbara Cook
The choral work in "It Wonders Me" and "How Do You Raise a Barn?"
The plain--
Gloria Marlowe's wide vibrato; my voice teacher called it a "wobble."
Richard Derr; would he recognize a tune if he found one?
Douglas Fletcher Rodgers' non-musical recitation of words in "Why Not Katie?" The approach works for Stefan Schnabel in "Plain We Live;" but it misses here.
Less than plain--
The lyrics. "He's full of cheese." "With her face you get a mustache." "Monkeys throwing coconuts." The catalog of vegetable seeds in "Plenty of Pennsylvania."
Exempt "City Mouse, Country Mouse" from this last comment. Although these lyrics are equally banal, the encompass the basic premise of the entire show. |
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medocre score
Submitted on: 2007-01-10 |
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a meiocre score but nice to have Barbara Cook's performance on record.
Best song is City Mouse, Country Mouse, otherwise a forgettabel score. |
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Pleasant but not terribly exciting
Submitted on: 2004-02-13 |
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| Then there are the 1950s musicals that were hits, ran a season and were promptly forgotten. This is one of them. Nothing really terribly wrong with the score...but there is nothing to get excited about either. The earlier CD reissue by Broadway Angel has better notes and more pictures in the booklet. |
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 lovely vintage musical
Submitted on: 2003-09-26 |
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| PLAIN AND FANCY is a lovely vintage Broadway musical that's now largely forgotten, sadly. It opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on January 7, 1955, and closed a mere twelve days before MY FAIR LADY moved into theatre, more than a year later. PLAIN AND FANCY ran a modest 461 performances. The plot concerns the humorous clash between city people (Shirl Conway and Richard Derr) and the Amish folk they meet when they want to sell an old farm. The musical is best-remembered for the lovely ballad "Young and Foolish", and for being the leading-role debut of Barbara Cook (who would go on to further greatness in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN). The score is a delight, featuring the good character-piece "It's a Helluva Way to Run a Love Affair". Barbara Cook's 11 o'clock number "I'll Show Him" exhibits some questionable lyrics but is belted in her best style. The score was written by Albert Hague and Arnold B. Horwitt. This new CD reissue from DRG includes liner notes from Barbara Cook, whilst the sound quality is very impressive from a cast album of this age. Highly-recommended for Broadway and Barbara Cook fans! |
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