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All rights reserved.West Side Story [Remaster] - Original Cast (CD 1998)
| Track Listing 1. Prologue - The Jets/The Sharks 2. Jet Song - Mickey Calin/The Jets 3. Something's Coming - Larry Kert 4. Dance at the Gym, The - The Jets/The Sharks 5. Maria - Larry Kert 6. Tonight - Larry Kert/Carol Lawrence 7. America - Marilyn Cooper/Chita Rivera/Shark Girls 8. Cool - Mickey Calin/The Jets 9. One Hand, One Heart - Larry Kert/Carol Lawrence 10. Tonight - The Jets/The Sharks/Chita Rivera/Larry Kert/Mickey Calin/Carol Lawrence 11. Rumble, The - The Orchestra/The Jets/The Sharks 12. I Feel Pretty - Carol Lawrence/Marilyn Cooper/Reri Grist/Carmen Gutierrez/Elizabeth Taylor 13. Somewhere (Ballet) - Larry Kert/Reri Grist/Carol Lawrence 14. Gee, Officer Krupke! - Eddie Roll/Grover Dale/Hank Brunjes/Tony Mordente/David Winters/The Jets 15. A Boy Like That / I Have A Love - Chita Rivera/Carol Lawrence 16. Finale - Ensemble 17. Prologue (Allegro Moderato) - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track) 18. Somewhere (Adagio) - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track) 19. Scherzo (Vivace E Leggiero) - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track) 20. Mambo (Meno Pesto) - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track) 21. Cha-Cha (Andantino con Grazia) - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track) 22. Meeting Scene (Meno Mosso) - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track) 23. Cool Fugue (Allegretto) - Leornard Berstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track) 24. Rumble (Molto Allegro) - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track) 25. Finale (Adagio) - Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (bonus track)
Album Notes Music composed by Leonard Bernstein. Lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim. Principal cast: Carol Lawrence (Maria); Larry Kert (Tony); Chita Rivera (Anita); Mickey Calin (Riff); Ken Le Roy (Bernardo). Original cast recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, New York on September 29, 1957. Includes liner notes by Martin Charnin and Nicholas Deutsch. All tracks have been digitally remastered. This is part of Columbia Records' Columbia Broadway Masterworks series. Record buyers who had not seen the show that opened on Broadway in 1957, could hardly believe their ears when this dramatic, early stereo album reached the stores soon afterwards. Classical composer Leonard Bernstein and newcomer Stephen Sondheim's spellbinding score combined exquisite ballads such as "Maria" and "Tonight" with streetwise numbers such as "Gee, Officer Krupke" and the exhilarating "America." Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert and Chita Rivera led the superb young cast, and the album stayed for 120 weeks in the US chart but faired poorly on its UK release. In 1991 it was inducted into the NARAS Hall of Fame. | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||
Reviews  excellent price for used cd.Review created: 04/06/08 by:  I bought this CD because I have liked West Side Story since high school. New CD's are more expensive. This was perfect. Review ID: 10000000006532693 Was this review helpful? Report this review West Side StoryReview created: 09/07/06 by: I really liked this CD more than I thought I would. The singing is crisp and clear and the music is alive with feelings of the story. The words in it are a little different sometimes from what we all know from the movie recordings. I feel they bring it a bit more to reality than the movie recordings. All in all this recording is truly an excellent addition to my library. I recommend this to anyone. Review ID: 10000000001781296 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Something Came...And It Was WonderfulReview created: 09/02/01 by: quasar -- a member of Epinions Pros: sweeping dramatic music that leads you from strife to hope to love to tragedy Cons: I Have a Love In 1957 Jerome Robbins brought what many consider to be the finest musical ever made to the Broadway spotlight. An updating of Romeo and Juliet set amid the gangs of modern New York, West Side Story replaces the Capulets and Montagues with the Jets and the Sharks, highlighting the ever-present battle between the whites and the Puerto Ricans in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Perhaps even more impressive than the story, the music is at once sweeping and sweet, funny and deadly serious. Filled with love songs and rants against the system, exhuberant outpourings of joy and harsh grating songs... Review ID: 10000000000237558  "Make of our hands, one hand...."Review created: 08/14/04 by: alexdg1 -- a member of Epinions Pros: Everything. Cons: None I was born six years after West Side Story premiered on Broadway, and I have only seen the movie version, so for me this CD is the next best thing to building a time machine to see the original stage production of the Jerome Robbins/Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim modern take on Romeo and Juliet. Set in mid-20th Century New York City's West Side, Arthur Laurents' book tells the story of two "starcross'd lovers" -- the "American" Tony, a former member of a street gang called the Jets, and Maria, a Puerto Rican immigrant and younger sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks, who are the... Review ID: 10000000000237556 Got a rocket in your pocket?Review created: 12/13/04 by: munkus -- a member of Epinions Pros: Superb casting and remastering Cons: Nada Bernstein was a walking, talking paradox. He craved to be famous, but despised being popular. When he conducted, he wished he was composing. When he was composing, he wished he was conducting. He bathed in the popularity of his masterpiece West Side Story whilst wishing that his horridly dated Mass could have the same success. This CD is an remastering of the Original Broadway Cast recording of West Side Story with music by, obviously, Bernstein and lyrics by a very young Stephen Sondheim. Remarkably this was his first major project (Sondheim that is), and it's true the lyrics aren't his best. Review ID: 10000000000237561 West Side Story (1957 Broadway Cast)Review created: 06/29/00 by: fdknight -- a member of Epinions Pros: Youthful cast, exciting score Cons: Boring bonus tracks Originally, it was supposed to be East Side Story, Romeo and Juliet updated to focus on conflicts between Catholics and Jews. This would have made it precisely daring as Abie's Irish Rose, the hoariest Broadway warhorse of the first half of the twentieth century. Fortunately, the groups were changed to whites and Puerto Ricans, and the show gained an urgency that has only lately started to peter out. The Show It's about Tony, who feels that something great is going to happen to him even as gang leader Riff is trying to reenlist him. It's about the conflict between Tony's old gang, the Jets,... Review ID: 10000000000237560 Epinions.com ratings are not included in the item's average rating. Links in this review may have been removed. |
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