FOLLIES New Cast Album to be Released November 29; Track List Announced

 

 

 

 

PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will release the new Broadway cast album of the Kennedy Center’s acclaimed revival of FOLLIES on Tuesday, November 29, 2011. The two-disc set is produced by PS Classics co-founder Tommy Krasker, who has helmed over a dozen Sondheim cast recordings. The recording is now available for preorder on the label’s website, www.psclassics.com.

The discs feature a 52-page full-color booklet with essay, synopsis, lyrics, production photos and a brief note from producer Krasker, in which he explains, “When the opportunity arose this year to record a new production of Follies, I told Steve Sondheim that I wanted to do an expansive recording that not only conveyed the glories of the score, but captured the experience of the show itself. I mapped out a recording edition, and happily, Steve was enthusiastic.” This New Broadway Cast Recording features not only the songs from the production, but carefully chosen dialogue lead-ins, scenes and speeches; from the haunting soprano sax solo that begins the show to the ghostly “Hey, up there” strain that ends it, these two CDs comprise nearly 110 minutes of Sondheim and Goldman’s Follies, resulting in a singular Follies experience on disc.

The track list for the album is as follows:

DISC ONE

1. Prologue

2. Overture

3. “Welcome to our first – and last – reunion…”

4. Beautiful Girls

5. “You came; you’re really here…”

6. Don’t Look at Me

7. “I never get to talk…”

8. Waiting for the Girls Upstairs

9. Rain on the Roof

10. Ah, Paris!

11. Broadway Baby

12. The Road You Didn’t Take

13. “Bargains, Buddy…”

14. In Buddy’s Eyes

15. “Let’s dish. Tell me everything…”

16. Who’s That Woman?

DISC TWO

1. “I had a Follies number once…”

2. I’m Still Here

3. Too Many Mornings

4. The Right Girl

5. “Men are so sweet…”

6. One More Kiss

7. “According to statistics…”

8. Could I Leave You?

9. “You’ll make a good wife, Phyl…”

10. Loveland

11. You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow / Love Will See Us Through

12. The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues

13. Losing My Mind

14. The Story of Lucy and Jessie

15. Live, Laugh, Love

16. Chaos

17. End of Show

 

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