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West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical West Side Story. Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and stereo formats. In 1962, the album reached #5 on Billboard's Pop Album chart.
At the 2007 Phoenix Film Festival On Broadway won the Sundance Channel Audience Award for Best Film, and Joey McIntyre won the Best Breakthrough Performance Award at the same festival. On Broadway had a theatrical release on March 14, 2008 in Boston at the Somerville Theater, West Newton Cinema, Sharon Cinemas 8 and Dedham Community Theater.
Eight of the film's original songs that were retained for the Broadway adaptation. [1] [3] Menken, who had both scored and written the film's songs alongside lyricist Ashman, returned to the project to write six new songs for the musical; [4] those were co-written by Tim Rice, replacing Ashman who had died in 1991, before the film was released. [5]
An original cast recording or OCR, as the name implies, features the voices of the show's original cast. A cast recording featuring the first cast to perform a musical in a particular venue is known, for example, as an "original Broadway cast recording" (OBCR) or an "original London cast recording" (OLCR).
Pack of Lies is a 1983 play by English writer Hugh Whitemore, itself adapted from his Act of Betrayal, an episode of the BBC anthology series Play of the Month transmitted in 1971. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based on a true story, the plot centres on Bob and Barbara Jackson (in real life Bill and Ruth Search) and their teenage daughter Julie (in real life Gay ...
Replacement cast members during the original Broadway run included Eddie Albert, Eddie Bracken, and Elliott Nugent as Richard Sherman; Sally Forrest and Louise King as The Girl; and Paulette Girard as Marie What-Ever-Her-Name-Was. [4] The touring production starred Eddie Bracken as Richard Sherman and also featured Gena Rowlands as Elaine. [5]
When she discovers that Merrill could not offer her a job on Broadway since his own dealings with NY producers had failed, Dorothy becomes distraught and drives her car off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean. Things begin to improve when Merrill gets a surprise call from a B-movie director to pick up the pieces of his failing western. After ...
The original Broadway cast album [11] was released on ABC Records in the US at the time; through merger and acquisition over the years, the Universal Music Group now owns the rights. The master tapes were restored for digital release through the Decca Broadway label [12] in 2002.