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Tovarich | 
 enlarge | Creator: Original Broadway Cast
Label: Drg
Category: Music
Buy New: $9.98
New (14) Used (3) from $5.85
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 167742
Format: Cast Recording, Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 021471902525
EAN: 0021471902525
ASIN: B0000658HH
Release Date: May 7, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Overutre | | • | I Go To Bed | | • | The Only One | | • | Nitchevo | | • | Stuck With Each Other | | • | Say You'll Stay | | • | You Love Me | | • | A Small Cartel | | • | Wilkes-Barre, PA | | • | No! No! No! | | • | That Face | | • | Uh-Oh! | | • | I Know The Feeling | | • | It Used To Be | | • | All For You | | • | Make A Friend |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 TOVARICH - Crown Jewels September 8, 2008
A totally charming musical whose run was seriously curtailed by Vivien Leigh's departure and inexperienced producers.
The 1st Reissue is preferable because the songs are in the show order.
Either way, it is an old-fashioned musical theatre score that is always able to put a big smile on my face. As a Musical Theatre teacher I assign songs from it frequently and my students adore it! It shall have a productionat Musicals Tonight! this season
A gem of a show April 12, 2008
Tovarich is a little gem of a show. I bought the LP when it came out back in the 60s and it's been one of my treasures over the years. I was delighted to see that it is now available on CD. The songs in this show run the gamut of emotions as two American teens in Paris fall wildly in love with two older -- and very elegant -- exiled Russian aristocrats played by Vivien Leigh and Jean Pierre Aumont. The CD -- like the show itself -- is really a showcase for the incredible Vivien Leigh, who won a much-deserved Tony for Best Performance for a Leading Actress in a Musical in 1963. Though there is not a videorecording of the show, you can get a taste for how wonderful Tovarich was from the short viedo of Vivien and Byron Mitchell dancing and singing in the lively number, "Wilkes-Barre, Pa." [...]
 Wish I'd seen it! December 17, 2007
I bought the cd mostly because of the picture of Vivien Leigh looking quite fetching in a maid's uniform. Having seen her dance the Charleston in "Ship of Fools", I'm sure her Charleston in "Wilkes-Barre, PA" would have brought down the House. Okay, so her singing voice is husky and occasionally out of tune. She is nevertheless regal and enchanting. I would have loved to have seen her in this show. The score turned out to be a pleasant surprise. The songs are mostly good, and this cd is very well recorded. Having read the Robert Anderson adaptation of "Tovarich", I can easily see Ms. Leigh playing the Grand Duchess Tatiana to delightfully comic and movingly dramatic effect. Jean-Pierre Aumont sounds suave and deliciously insoucient as her consort, and the supporting cast including Byron Mitchell and Margery Grey as squabbling siblings are excellent. The Phil Lang orchestrations are an especially tasty icing on this cake. This is a case of a flop musical of the 1960's providing far greater musical quality than most of the hit musicals currently on Broadway. Give it a try. If you collect musicals, how can you forego Scarlet O'Hara as a Russian Expatriot Grand Duchess/turned French Maid?
 Sparkling and Cheerful June 29, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yes, I know it's not "West Side Story" or "Cabaret". Yet, it's cheerful, light-hearted and very nice to listen to. The lyrics are sometimes funny, others sentimental, and both Vivien Leigh and Jean Pierre Aumont come along quite satisfactorily from the singing test. Some songs are quite contagious - such as "I Go to Bed", and some others are sweet and delightfully romantic like "I Know the Feeling" which Miss Leigh sings beautifully. Not recommended to highly demanding listeners but it will delight those who like unpretentious, simple, rather old-fashioned and catching tunes.
Tovarich Is Fantastic! October 29, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was a fan of Tovarich from years ago when it was a long-playing album of the original cast recording from Broadway. I was so happy to see that it was processed into a CD so that I could add it to my collection. The story of Tatiana and Mikhail, two impoverished members of the Russian nobility who find employment as domestics in Paris with an American family charmed audiences on Broadway and won actress Vivien Leigh a Tony award for Best Actress in a musical. The comedy that unfolds as the two nouveau domestics become involved in adolescent crushes with the children of their employers is very endearing as revealed by the songs "Wilkes Barre, PA," "No! No! No!", and "Uh-Oh!" to which Vivien Leigh sings the tender "I Know the Feeling" as the lesson to be learned. The Lee Pockriss-Anne Croswell score shines with many excellent numbers that the cast performs with flair and finesse.
Tovarich never made it to the highlights in Broadway history despite Vivien Leigh's Tony because it premiered during a newspaper strike, so it never received adequate publicity. It is well worth a second review.
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