I’ve to confess that I never
cared much for this 1958 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. It’s true, it had a
few great songs like “I Enjoy Being a Girl” and “Love, Look Away”, but on the
whole it didn’t sound very interesting.
Surprise! This Broadway revival cast
recording brings new life to the score and thanks to new orchestrations by Don
Sebesky and an appealing cast I really enjoyed it for the first time on my
life. Purists may discharged it as a crime, but when a new recording help us to
rediscover an old score, that’s hardly a crime. Like me you may not like the
modern beat at the middle of “Fan Tan Fannie”, but it made me smile and the new
“I Enjoy Being a Girl” number sounds like a great piece of musical
entertainment.
With a fabulous CD package this is
a must have on any musical fan CD library.
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