World’s Fair Original Cast
Recording – 1964 / Music by James Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn
Starring: Annie Fargé, Janine Forman, Cyd Charisse, Bing
Crosby, Crista Speck, Gene Kelly, Pearl Bailey, Joey Forman, Guy Marks, Loretta
Young, Paul Frees, Milton Berle, Jane Kean, Liberace, Jayne Mansfield, Lance
Legault, Edie Adams, Merry Wiiliams, Phil Silvers, Pop Com, Cotton Candy and
the Balloons
Rate: 6 (from 1 to 10)
Review: I never heard of this show before, but when I
saw the names attached to it I became very curious about it.
To begin with, this puppet
musical revue is musically kind of strange. The numbers go from really good
(“Love is a Bore”) to the weird (“A Night of Horror”), but the end result is
quite entertaining.
There’s Gene Kelly charming
“Don’t Say Paris, Say Paree”. Pearl Bailey is great with “You Can’t Make It
Anywhere” and “Love is a Bore”; two songs that deserve to have a life beyond
this show and are reason enough to buy this recording. “It’s a Living” is a
funny song and the melodious “The Ice Skater (On the Wings of Romance”) would
easily fit on a soundtrack of a musical or comedy of the 50s.
Like I said before, “A Night
of Horror” is kind of strange and the numbers “The Opera Singer” and “The
Circus” aren’t my cup of tea. For me, the worst is the rock sound “Sadie Fats”,
that seems to belong to some other score.
But, in the whole, I think
lovers of the musical will enjoy this score and there’s more than a couple of
good songs in it.
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