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100 Greatest Musicals
Silva Screen has long established its 100 Series as the ultimate
collection in any genre and the recent 100 Greatest Musicals is no
different.
Tracing through the history of stage and song from the influential
1927 musical hit Show Boat to 2010’s highly anticipated release from
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Love Never Dies, this comprehensive collection
features vocals from The Stars of the London Stage including Britain's
most loved soprano, Lesley Garrett, Dave Willetts, Helen Hobson and
David Shannon.
The 6-CD collection highlights 83 years of the genre, from the post-
war golden era dominated by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin,
Lerner & Lowe to the next generation of Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Lloyd
Webber & Rice. Performed by The Royal Philharmonic, The Philharmonia
and The City Of Prague.
As part of this epic release, Silva Screen with its partners Pure Solo
and The Stage, ran an exclusive competition to seek out the next
musical star. Through weeks of auditions we allowed the next wannabe
musical stars to record and upload their auditions from a selection of
musical hits, three for the boys and three for the girls.
We are happy to announce that the winner was James Loynes who
auditioned with a fantastic version of the Phantom Of The Opera hit,
“All I Ask Of You” which is featured here on disc 5.
Says producer Rick Clark:
“James has turned out to be a real pro. He showed up and did the job
within a few takes- he's a natural”.
CD: SILCD1328
REL. DATE: November 9, 2010
Track Listing
CD1: 1927 - 1948
1. Show Boat - Make Believe
2. Show Boat - Ol' Man River
3. Anything Goes
4. Porgy And Bess - Summertime
5. The Wizard Of Oz - Over The Rainbow
6. Carmen Jones - Dat's Love
7. Oklahoma! - Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
8. Oklahoma! - The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
9. Oklahoma!
10. Carousel - If I Loved You
11. Carousel - Soliloquy
12. Carousel - You'll Never Walk Alone
13. Annie Get Your Gun – Anything You Can Do
14. Annie Get Your Gun - The Girl That I Marry
15. Annie Get Your Gun - There's No Business Like Show Business
16. Kiss Me Kate - Where Is The Life That Late I Led?
CD2: 1949 - 1957
1. South Pacific - Some Enchanted Evening
2. South Pacific - Younger Than Springtime
3. Guys And Dolls - Luck Be A Lady
4. Paint Your Wagon - Wandrin' Star
5. The King And I - Shall We Dance
6. The King And I - Getting To Know You
7. Singin' In The Rain
8. Kismet - And This Is My Beloved
9. Kismet - Stranger In Paradise
10. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers - Bless Your Beautiful Hide
11. My Fair Lady - I Could Have Danced All Night
12. My Fair Lady - On The Street Where You Live
13. High Society - True Love
14. West Side Story - America
15. West Side Story - Maria
16. West Side Story - Tonight
17. West Side Story – Somewhere
CD3: 1959 - 1967
1. Gigi - Gigi
2. The Sound Of Music
3. The Sound Of Music – Climb Ev'ry Mountain
4. The Sound Of Music – My Favourite Things
5. The Sound Of Music – Edelweiss
6. Camelot - If Ever I Would Leave You
7. The Fantasticks - Try To Remember
8. Oliver! - As Long As He Needs Me
9. Oliver! - Consider Yourself
10. Pickwick - If I Ruled The World
11. Fiddler On The Roof - If I Were A Rich Man
12. Funny Girl - People
13. Funny Girl - Don't Rain On My Parade
14. Mary Poppins - A Spoonful Of Sugar
15. Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
16. Man Of La Mancha – The Impossible Dream
17. Cabaret
CD4: 1967 - 1979
1. Sweet Charity - Big Spender
2. Hair - Aquarius
3. The Jungle Book - The Bare Necessities
4. The Jungle Book - I Wanna Be Like You
5. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6. Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Close Every Door
7. Jesus Christ Superstar - Everything's Alright
8. Jesus Christ Superstar - I Don't Know How To Love Him
9. Jesus Christ Superstar - Superstar
10. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory - Pure Imagination
11. Grease - Summer Nights
12. Grease - You're The One That I Want
13. A Little Night Music - Send In The Clowns
14. A Chorus Line - What I Did For Love
15. Chicago - All That Jazz
16. Annie – Tomorrow
CD5: 1979 - 1986
1. Evita - Another Suitcase In Another Hall
2. Evita - High Flying Adored
3. Evita - Don't Cry For Me Argentina
4. Sweeney Todd - Not While I'm Around
5. The Blues Brothers – Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
6. Fame! - Fame!
7. Les Miserables - Bring Him Home
8. Les Miserables - I Dreamed A Dream
9. Cats - Macavity: The Mystery Cat
10. Cats - Memory
11. Little Shop Of Horrors
12. Tell Me On A Sunday - Tell Me On A Sunday
13. La Cage Aux Folles - I Am What I Am
14. Starlight Express – Starlight Express
15. Phantom Of The Opera
16. Phantom Of The Opera – Music Of The Night
17. Phantom Of The Opera - All Ask Of You
CD6: 1986 - 2010
1. Chess - I Know Him So Well
2. Aspects Of Love - Love Changes Everything
3. Aspects Of Love - Seeing Is Believing
4. Miss Saigon - The Last Night Of The World
5. Sunset Boulevard
6. Sunset Boulevard - As If We Never Said Goodbye
7. Sunset Boulevard - With One Look
8. Riverdance
9. Hairspray - You Can't Stop The Beat
10. Wicked - Defying Gravity
11. Jersey Boys - Sherry
12. Spamalot (Monty Python's Life Of Brian) - Always Look On The
Bright Side Of Life
13. High School Musical - We're All In This Together
14. Glee - Don't Stop Believin'
15. The Princess And The Frog - Almost There
16. Love Never Dies - 'Til I Hear You Sing
17. Love Never Dies - Love Never Dies
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Robert Bouton
begin. Those foolish enough to purchase this collection will get
confusing misinformation about what a musical is.
For instance, Everybody Needs Somebody To Love is an R & B hit from
the sixties. It was written, as many songs are, for a popular singer
to perform in concert and on record. That's how most people know it.
In 1980, a movie comedy was made about a pair of blues performers,
and, in the course of the film, we see them perform a number of R & B
hits. Nobody considers The Blues Brothers a musical: it's not
something where characters break out into song; Everybody Needs
Somebody To Love is one of many numbers they perform. But it's on
this collection as an example of a song from a musical from the period
1979-1986.
In 1981, the rock band Journey had a tremendous hit with Don't Stop
Believin' - probably one of the best-loved American pop songs of the
past 30 years. Again, not written for a musical: it was written to be
performed by in concert and on record. A year or so ago, a television
series about a choir showed the choir rehearsing and singing the
song. It doesn't involve characters singing their feelings; the
characters ARE singers, and this is a number they're performing at
their school. This simple fact was clear enough to everyone except
the assemblers of this compendium, who maintain the song's an example
of a musical in the most recent period, 1986-2010. Saying so doesn't
make it so.
There is something of a crisis in the world of musicals when rock
songs are re-christened "songs from musicals." As far as I'm
concerned, "songs from musicals" are those that are written to be
performed in musicals, and then are. If, when I started out, you told
me my theatre songs would compete, side-by-side, with Journey, I would
have laughed. And so would Journey.
fmomoon
for the time period they mention. For example, "Mary Poppins" obviously
refers to the movie. That aside, it is a musical. I agree with you,
though, "The Blues Brothers" isn't a musical. Was "Riverdance" ever a
musical? "High School Musical? Seriously?
*sigh*
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Moni
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Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. - Mark Twain
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John W Kennedy
> As far as I'm
> concerned, "songs from musicals" are those that are written to be
> performed in musicals, and then are.
"No other love"?
--
John W Kennedy
"The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor
And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined the war."
-- Charles Williams. "Mount Badon"
John W Kennedy
> Far too many movie musicals or movies with music on this list,
> especially for the time period they mention. For example, "Mary
> Poppins" obviously refers to the movie. That aside, it is a musical.
> I agree with you, though, "The Blues Brothers" isn't a musical. Was
> "Riverdance" ever a musical? "High School Musical? Seriously?
There can be no doubt that the original "High School Musical" (I
haven't seen the others) is a legitimate movie musical. Although some
of the songs are in-story performances (and unless you want to exclude
hundreds of shows, from "Show Boat" to "The Sound of Music", you cannot
disallow that), others are not. You cannot even exclude it for its
inability to distinguish between a book show and a revue; Hollywood's
had a problem with that since the 1920s.
fmomoon
"John W Kennedy" <jwk...@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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What do you mean by an "in-story performance?" Do you mean the songs which
are extrapolated from other sources and plopped into a musical? I don't
even mind calling "Jersey Boys" a musical, jukebox or otherwise. At least
the thing was staged. But original, it wasn't. I know that theatre has
done that for decades and movies certainly have, too. "Jungle Book?"
Seriously? That was a cartoon. At least "Lion King" was staged eventually
and added original music.
John W Kennedy
> "John W Kennedy" <jwk...@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:4cdf6be5$0$7137$607e...@cv.net...
>> On 2010-11-13 20:45:20 -0500, fmomoon said:
>>> Far too many movie musicals or movies with music on this list,
>>> especially for the time period they mention. For example, "Mary
>>> Poppins" obviously refers to the movie. That aside, it is a musical.
>>> I agree with you, though, "The Blues Brothers" isn't a musical. Was
>>> "Riverdance" ever a musical? "High School Musical? Seriously?
>>
>> There can be no doubt that the original "High School Musical" (I
>> haven't seen the others) is a legitimate movie musical. Although some
>> of the songs are in-story performances (and unless you want to exclude
>> hundreds of shows, from "Show Boat" to "The Sound of Music", you cannot
>> disallow that), others are not. You cannot even exclude it for its
>> inability to distinguish between a book show and a revue; Hollywood's
>> had a problem with that since the 1920s.
>
> What do you mean by an "in-story performance?" Do you mean the songs
> which are extrapolated from other sources and plopped into a musical?
No, although there are examples of those in, for example, "Show Boat",
"Allegro", and "Me and Juliet". I mean songs like "Edelweiss",
"Marriage-Type Love", or "Honey Bun".
> I don't even mind calling "Jersey Boys" a musical, jukebox or
> otherwise. At least the thing was staged. But original, it wasn't. I
> know that theatre has done that for decades and movies certainly have,
> too. "Jungle Book?" Seriously? That was a cartoon. At least "Lion
> King" was staged eventually and added original music.
But "The Jungle Book" is still a musical; it just isn't a stage musical.
Remysun
> There can be no doubt that the original "High School Musical" (I
> haven't seen the others) is a legitimate movie musical.
And it's been brought to stage. I was 15 minutes from seeing the
matinee at Detroit's Fisher Theatre, except for the fact that it was
High School Musical.
fmomoon
> On 2010-11-14 01:59:14 -0500, fmomoon said:
>
>> "John W Kennedy" <jwk...@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:4cdf6be5$0$7137$607e...@cv.net...
>>> On 2010-11-13 20:45:20 -0500, fmomoon said:
>>>> Far too many movie musicals or movies with music on this list,
>>>> especially for the time period they mention. For example, "Mary
>>>> Poppins" obviously refers to the movie. That aside, it is a musical.
>>>> I agree with you, though, "The Blues Brothers" isn't a musical. Was
>>>> "Riverdance" ever a musical? "High School Musical? Seriously?
>>>
>>> There can be no doubt that the original "High School Musical" (I haven't
>>> seen the others) is a legitimate movie musical. Although some of the
>>> songs are in-story performances (and unless you want to exclude hundreds
>>> of shows, from "Show Boat" to "The Sound of Music", you cannot disallow
>>> that), others are not. You cannot even exclude it for its inability to
>>> distinguish between a book show and a revue; Hollywood's had a problem
>>> with that since the 1920s.
>>
>> What do you mean by an "in-story performance?" Do you mean the songs
>> which are extrapolated from other sources and plopped into a musical?
>
> No, although there are examples of those in, for example, "Show Boat",
> "Allegro", and "Me and Juliet". I mean songs like "Edelweiss",
> "Marriage-Type Love", or "Honey Bun".
Ah, I see. Much of "White Christmas" also qualifies in that one.
>
>> I don't even mind calling "Jersey Boys" a musical, jukebox or otherwise.
>> At least the thing was staged. But original, it wasn't. I know that
>> theatre has done that for decades and movies certainly have, too.
>> "Jungle Book?" Seriously? That was a cartoon. At least "Lion King" was
>> staged eventually and added original music.
>
> But "The Jungle Book" is still a musical; it just isn't a stage musical.
>
> --
> John W Kennedy
> "The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor
> And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined the war."
> -- Charles Williams. "Mount Badon"
>
Technically, yes. I'm a purist. I prefer staged musicals. The movie
musicals, some of which I love, tend to be a bit of a mish mosh. When done
well we get something like "American in Paris." When not done well, we get
"High School Musical." :)
Patti Beadles
John W Kennedy <jwk...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>of the songs are in-story performances (and unless you want to exclude
>hundreds of shows, from "Show Boat" to "The Sound of Music", you cannot
>disallow that),
If you exclude in-story performances, then none of the music from
Hedwig and the Angry Inch really qualifies. And if none of its
music qualifies, it stops being a musical. And then it disappears
in a puff of logic.
It seems to me that "written for and initially performed in a
musical" is a pretty good bar. I might even go as far as accepting
songs that were not widely known before they were performed in a
musical, but I can't think of any examples of those right now.
-Patti
P.S. I'm headed to London next week. Any last-minute recommendations?
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