According to a listing on PS Classics' website, the first full length recording of THE GOLDEN APPLE is set for release today, May 19, 2015.
Composer
Jerome Moross and librettist
John Latouche's THE GOLDEN APPLE premiered in 1954. Its blend of American folklore and Greek myth, popular entertainment and high art, and musical comedy and operatic drama "stood Manhattan on its ear," winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle prize for Best Musical (the first Off-Broadway show to do so) and spawning the standard "Lazy Afternoon." Yet, sadly, this 135-minute through-sung musical was preserved only in a 48-minute LP, and after a short-lived transfer to Broadway, THE GOLDEN APPLE all but slipped into obscurity.
In November of 2014, the Lyric Stage of Irving, Texas, mounted a fully-staged revival of THE GOLDEN APPLE, featuring an orchestra of 38 and a 43-member cast, and PS Classics was there to preserve the score in its entirety.
Featuring nearly 90 minutes of previously unrecorded music and the complete libretto, PS Classics' deluxe two-disc cast recording of THE GOLDEN APPLE gives new life to a musical milestone of the American theatre.
TRACK LISTING:
Disc One
- Overture
- Nothing Ever Happens in Angel's Roost
- Angel's Roost Has Its Situation
- Mother Hare's Seance
- My Love Is on the Way
- The Heroes Come Home
- It Was a Glad Adventure
- Come Along Boys
- It's the Going Home Together
- Mother Hare's Prophecy
- Good Is a Word That Fools Believe
- It's the Going Home Together (Continuation)
- Helen Is Always Willing
- The Arrival of Paris
- Let's Pay a Visit
- The Picnic Table
- Mother Hare's Return
- An Impartial Judge
- The Judgment of Paris
- If You Select My Angel Food
- I'll Teach You
- The Loveliest Things in Life
- It's a Fraud
- Paris Visits Helen
- Lazy Afternoon
- The Departure for Rhododendron
Disc Two
- My Picture in the Papers
- Plumes on Her Hat
- Form a Committee
- The Prize Fight
- Let's Go Home
- Hector's Song
- A Good Girl
- Windflowers
- Store-Bought Suit
- Hurry! Hurry!
- Calypso
- Paradise Alley
- Scylla and Charybdis
- A Carefree Diversion
- Goona-Goona
- One Hell of a Bender
- Doomed, Doomed, Doomed
- Enough is Enough!
- Circe
- Ulysses' Soliloquy
- Busy Little Sewing Bee
- Penelope's Tirade
- We've Just Begun
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