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West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast)

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Released
  
1957

Length
  
78:04

Release date
  
October 1961

Producer
  
Goddard Lieberson

Genre
  
Cast recording

Label
  
Columbia

Show
  
West Side Story

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Recorded
  
9/29/1957 CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City

Artists
  
Original Broadway Cast, Bruce Trent, Ludovic De Preissac

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

Similar
  
Les Misérables (1988 stu, Obrigado Brazil, My Fair Lady

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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.

Contents

It was recorded at the CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City.

West side story 1957 composite


Track listing

All tracks written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

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

Bonus tracks

  1. "Prologue (Allegro Moderato)" – 4:07
  2. "Somewhere (Adagio)" – 3:51
  3. "Scherzo (Vivace E Leggiero)" – 1:17
  4. "Mambo (Meno Presto)" – 2:14
  5. "Cha-Cha (Andantino con Grazia)" – :53
  6. "Meeting Scene (Meno Mosso)" – :47
  7. "Cool Fugue (Allegretto)" – 3:03
  8. "Rumble (Molto Allegro)" – 1:52
  9. "Finale (Adagio)" – 2:47

Production

  • Sylvia Drulie – associate producer
  • Gerald Freedman – assistant director
  • Peter Gennaro – choreographer
  • Max Goberman – director, musical director
  • Jon Eggert – 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
  • Hallmark CD: 709782—issued 2010

    • Songs

    PrologueOriginal Broadway Cast of West Side Story3:50
    Jet SongMichael Callan2:11
    Something's ComingLarry Kert2:35

    References

    West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) Wikipedia
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