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Redhead (1959 Original Broadway Cast) | 
 enlarge | Artists: Albert Hague, Dorothy Fields, Gwen Verdon
Label: Fynsworth Alley
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 157246
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 030206217322
EAN: 0030206217322
ASIN: B00008QSC3
Release Date: April 1, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Overture | | • | The Simpson Sisters | | • | The Right Finger of My Left Hand | | • | Just For Once | | • | I Feel Merely Marvelous | | • | The Uncle Sam Rag | | • | Erbie Fitch's Twitch | | • | She's Not Enough Woman for Me | | • | Behave Yourself | | • | Look Who's in Love | | • | My Girl Is Just Enough Woman for Me | | • | Dream Dance (Essie's Vision) | | • | Two Faces in the Dark | | • | I'm Back in Circulation | | • | We Loves Ya, Jimey | | • | Pick-Pocket Tango | | • | I'll Try | | • | Chase and Finale |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Tony Award for Best Musical ? How could they...? June 29, 2006
I still can't believe that this musical made it for the Tony as Best Musical. Most probably Miss Verdon was marvelous in the theatre production, but as this is an opinion for the soundtrack, I may say that I found it awfully boring and quite dissapointing. Once you listen to the album, it's difficult to remember one single tune since they simply respond to the most conventional cliches for a musical. I wouldn't recommend it except to fanatic collectors of Tony award winners.
 GREAT September 21, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent service, timing, etc. One of my very favorite Broadway scores and delighted to find it.
 Performers better than the material. September 2, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gwen Verdon and Richard Kiley give fine performances here but the material is decidedly second-rate.
Though the show won the 1959 Tony award it has never been revived and will probably NEVER see a full-scale revival.
The disc is for musical theatre completists only.
 Commendable Memorial to Gwen Verdon, but . . . July 1, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Being a fan of Gwen Verdon (I own recordings of every Broadway show she's appeared in), I am grateful to Fynsworth Alley for reissuing REDHEAD, especially because - except for Gwen Verdon and Richard Kiley - musically it has so little to offer. I don't doubt that it was deserving of the Tony Awards it received, but 1959 was a dreary year for musicals on Broadway. I'm sure both she and Kiley (I have all of his shows as well) were fine, but I imagine it was Bob Fosse's direction and choreography that kept the show going. It certainly wasn't the score.Previous reviewers have called the score "beguiling" or listed the "gems." Frankly, I find most of the songs either derivative or exceptionally dull. The scores for both GOLDILOCKS and FLOWER DRUM SONG, also from 1959, are far superior. I would have preferred a reissue of NEW GIRL IN TOWN from 1958 which also won Tonys for Best Musical and for Best Actress (Verdon), as well as best featured actress, the wonderful Thelma Ritter. Bob Merrill wrote an excellent score that contains nemerous "gems". Perhaps Fynsworth Alley or DRG will get around to bringing back this show, one of the many shamelessly deleted by RCA. Amazon lists Varese as the reissuing company, but it fact it was remastered and released by Fynsworth Alley. Their website is currently undergoing reconstruction, so keep checking them out. It's the only available outlet for Marc Blitzstein's JUNO, a superb score featureing Shirley Booth and Melvyn Douglas. BUY IT!! All said, REDHEAD is an important show and worthy of this fine reissue. It's an important document of both Gwen Verdon and Richard Kiley and the heady days of the book musical. May Vernon's and Fosse's stars shine brightly forever.
Redhead Remastered is a Musical Theatre Joy! June 4, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Redhead won 1959 Tony Awards for Richard Kiley, Gwen Verdon, Bob Fosse, and Best Musical. A star vehicle for triple threat Verdon, Redhead edged out Flower Drum Song to become the hit of the 1959 theatre season. With a score by legends Albert Hague(Plain and Fancy) and Dorothy Fields(Sweet Charity, Seesaw), Redhead is the story of a simple English girl(Verdon) who gets caught up in a murder mystery and eventually swept off her feet by a heroic American, Tom Baxter(Kiley). The score features beautiful love songs(Look Who's in Love), comic duets(Behave Yourself, She's Not Enough Woman for Me) and good old fashioned fun from the Golden Age of Broadway(The Uncle Sam Rag, Erbie Fitch's Twitch, and I'll Try). This CD is a wonderful representation of a world and genre of musical theatre that has since passed us by. Any fans of the Golden Age of Broadway will not regret purchasing this CD. Beautifully remastered by Bill Meade and Fynsworth Alley, the orchestrations and vocals sound as fresh as ever- Redhead has never been heard like this before! Generously included are three handpicked songs that were cuts during tryouts. "You Love I"(a charming song for Tom and Essie), "It Doesn't Take A Minute"( a solo for Essie) and the brilliantly clever and catchy "What Has She Got" (delivered by Faith Prince and a supporting cast). Any lover of Broadway would be mistaken not to purchase this remastered CD of one of Broadway's most charming Tony winners. You will fall in love with Redhead!
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