West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast)

Infobox Album
Name = West Side Story
Type = studio
Artist = Original Broadway cast of West Side Story


Released = 1957
Recorded = 9/29/1957
Genre = cast recording
Length = 78:04
Label = Columbia
Producer = Goddard Lieberson
Sylvia Drulie
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dpfixq9hldte~T1 link]
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"West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast)" is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical "West Side Story". Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and stereo formats. In 1962, the album reached #5 on Billboard's "Pop Album" chart. It certified "gold" by the RIAA on January 12 1962. The album was reissued in 1973 and made its first appearance on CD in 1986. A 1997 remastered edition includes nine additional tracks of Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic through symphonic versions of the songs at the Manhattan Center on March 6 1961. [ [http://www.sondheimguide.com/wsscastrec.html West Side Story] The Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide. Accessed September 24 2007.]

Track listing

All tracks by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

#"Prologue" – 3:50
#"Jet Song" – 2:10
#"Something's Coming" – 2:40
#"The Dance at the Gym" – 3:06
#"Maria" – 2:40
#"Tonight" – 3:53
#"America" – 4:35
#"Cool" – 4:01
#"One Hand, One Heart" – 3:03
#"Tonight (Quintet and Chorus)" – 3:40
#"The Rumble" – 2:45
#"I Feel Pretty" – 2:50
#"Somewhere (Ballet)" – 7:35
#"Gee, Officer Krupke" – 4:05
#"A Boy Like That/I Have a Love" – 4:18
#"Finale" – 2:02

Bonus tracks

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"Prologue (Allegro Moderate)" – 4:07
#"Somewhere (Adagio)" – 3:51
#"Scherzo (Vivace E Leggiero)" – 1:17
#"Mambo (Meno Presto)" – 2:14
#"Cha-Cha (Andantino con Grazia)" – :53
#"Meeting Scene (Meno Mosso)" – :47
#"Cool Fugue (Allegretto)" – 3:03
#"Rumble (Motto Allegro)" – 1:52
#"Finale (Adagio)" – 2:47

Personnel

Performance

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col1 = Lee Becker – cast Leonard Bernstein Orchestra – orchestration Hank Brunjes – cast Mickey Calin – cast Erne Castaldo – cast Martin Charnin – cast Wilma Curley – cast Grover Dale – cast Carole d'Andrea – cast Al de Sio – cast Marilyn d'Honau – cast Gene Gavin – cast Frank Green – cast Lowell Harris – cast Larry Kert – cast
col2 = Irwin Kostal Orchestra – orchestration Carol Lawrence – cast Ronnie Lee – cast Ken Leroy – cast George Marcy – cast Tony Mordente – cast Jack Murray – cast Jay Norman – cast Julie Oser – cast Chita Rivera – cast Eddie Roll – cast Nanette Rosen – cast Jamie Sanchez – cast Noel Schwartz – cast

Production

*Sylvia Drulie – associate producer
*Gerald Freedman – assistant director
*Peter Gennaro – choreographer
*Max Goberman – director, musical director
*Robert E. Griffith – arranger
*Howard Jeffrey – assistant
*Goddard Lieberson – producer
*Harold Prince – arranger
*Jean Rosenthal – lighting
*Irene Sharaff – costume design
*Wallace Siebert – assistant

Release History

*Columbia Lp: OS 2001 (stereo) also OL 5230 (mono) - issued 1957
*Columbia Lp: S 32603 - issued 1973
*Columbia Cd: CK 32603 - issued 1986
*Columbia Broadway Masterworks Cd: SK 60724 - issued 1997

References