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EAN: 0075597933826 Format: Cast Recording Label: Nonesuch Manufacturer: Nonesuch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nonesuch Release Date: June 21, 1994 Studio: Nonesuch Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ONE OF THE GERSHWIN'S MOST INGENIOUS SCORES . . . PARDON MY ENGLISH will always be known as the show the Gershwins would have liked to forget. Written as a special favor for a friend of theirs, the show " . . . became a revolving door of book writers, directors, and performers . . ." so that by the time it finally reached Broadway, it was a total mess. Songs had been reassigned to new characters, plot changes created odd musical references, what once were main characters were now inconsequential to the plot. No wonder it became 1933's first flop. ... Read More Rating:  - Buy some other GershwinThere is a reason this show closed after 46 performances. One critic called it "devastatingly routine" and that it is. Ira Gershwin called one of the songs he did for this show "the worst lyric I ever wrote". If you did a blind listening of the music, it would be hard to tell it was written by George Gershwin. Ditto the lyrics by Ira. This recording would be useful only to Gershwin scholars. I found it useful in a practical way---just to remind myself that giants like the Gershwins are not gods. ... Read More Rating: - Another side of the Gershwins...This musical, although unsuccessful in the theatre due largely to a "weak" book, cast mutinies and extensive rewrites, nonetheless displays another side of George Gershwin's talents. A fine example of Gershwin's later style, it contains parodies of polkas, waltzes and marches interspersed with swing. Some great melodies, amusing lyrics, brilliant orchestration (Bennett, Deutsch, and others), and obvious enthusiasm for the material on the part of the performers make this CD worth listening to. |
