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A Doll’s Life : Original Broadway Cast
Full-Length 12" Vinyl Record Album

Description: This is a Columbia Special Products Collectors Series reissue of the Original Broadway Cast recording from 1982. Reissued with full-size photo/notes insert. The vinyl record is in glossy clean near mint condition. The cover is in very good+ condition, a little right edge wear, no seam splits. On the back cover are extensive album notes and a gold promotional stamp. The pictures in this listing are of the actual record album you will receive. Check out our other listings for a wide variety of vinyl records and CDs. We ship worldwide in secure, padded packaging. Please let us know if you have any questions for a prompt reply. Tracklist and additional album information below.

Tracklist:
–Orchestra ** Overture
–Nora/Otto/Conductor/Company ** Prologue/A Woman Alone
–Nora ** Letter To The Children
–Eric/Johan/Dr. Berg/Mr. Gustafson ** New Year’s Eve
–Otto And Nora ** New Year’s Eve (Reprise)/Stay With Me Nora/She Thinks That’s The Answer/The Arrival/Loki And Baldur/You Interest Me/The Departure/Letter From Klemnacht
–Astrid* And Company ** She Thinks That’s The Answer
–Astrid* And Company ** The Arrival
–Peter Gallagher And Singers ** Loki And Baldur
–Johan ** You Interest Me
–Astrid* And Company ** The Departure
–Astrid ** Letter From Klemnacht
–Nora ** Learn To Be Lonely/Rats And Mice And Fish/Jailer, Jailer
–Women ** Rats And Mice And Fish
–Nora* And Women ** Jailer, Jailer
–Eric/Nora ** Rare Wines
–Nora/Company ** No More Mornings
–Johan/Eric/Otto ** There She Is
–Nora ** Power/Reprise: Letter To The Children/At Last/The Grand Cafe
–Nora ** Reprise: Letter To The Children
–Johan ** At Last
–Company ** The Grand Cafe
–Nora And Company ** Finale (Can You Hear Me Now?)


Personnel on this recording: Conductor – Paul Gemignani-Liner Notes – Betty Comden And Adolph Green-Libretto By – Adolph Green, Betty Comden-Music By – Larry Grossman-Orchestrated By – Bill Byers-Vocals [Actor/Torvald/Johan]-George Hearn-Vocals [Astrid]-Barbara Lang-Vocals [Eric]-Edmund Lyndeck-Vocals [Nora]-Betsy Joslyn-Vocals [Otto]-Peter Gallagher. Doll's Life is a musical with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Larry Grossman. The musical tells a speculative story of what happened to Nora, the lead character of Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House, after she left her husband and her old life behind to face the world on her own; in doing so, it examines several aspects of feminism and the ways in which women are treated. A Doll's Life opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on September 23, 1982, in a production directed by Hal Prince and starring Betsy Joslyn, George Hearn and Peter Gallagher. It closed three days later, after a run of 18 previews and 5 performances. Set within the framework of a contemporary rehearsal of Henrik Ibsen's classic play A Doll's House, it addresses the question of what might have transpired after Nora slammed the door and abandoned her tyrannical husband Torvald. Borrowing the fare from a young violinist, Otto, she takes the train to Christiania, where she accepts work in a cafe and soon becomes involved not only with Otto, but Eric Didrickson, the wealthy owner of shipping lines and fish canneries, and Johan Blecker, a lawyer, as well. Throughout the show, scenes in her new life mingle with intermittent flashbacks to the one she left behind. The Broadway production opened on September 23, 1982, at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. Directed by Hal Prince, the show featured scenic design by Timothy O'Brien and Tazeena Firth, costume design by Florence Klotz, lighting design by Ken Billington. and choreography by Larry Fuller. The cast featured Betsy Joslyn, George Hearn and Peter Gallagher. A staged concert of the musical was presented by the York Theatre Company in New York City, New York from December 1994 to January 1995. Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote that "three legendary Broadway hands - Harold Prince, Betty Comden and Adolph Green - have inflated a spectacularly unpromising premise with loads of money, good intentions and hard work, only to end up with a show that collapses in its prologue and then skids into a toboggan slide from which there is no return." He wrote of Prince's direction that "remarkably, there isn't a single idea in the staging that he hasn't done before - and better"; he criticized the character of Nora as being "merely a symbol: The Unliberated Female", and wrote that the show's heavily flawed dramaturgy "can't muster what should be a foolproof case" for its supposed revelations about feminism that "at this late date are facts of life. In a later piece for the Times, Rich wrote that the show was "merely pretentious," and that "to write a show in 1982 that espouses a primer-like feminist credo as if feminism had only entered the public mind yesterday seems, in its own way, a form of escapism and not even an entertaining form at that. According to John Kenrick, the musical had "an almost operatic score, but the book droned on about the unfairness of life and an overly-elaborate Hal Prince production only made matters worse." Despite the critics derision the show received several Tony Award nominations, and an original cast recording was released on the Bay Cities label. Broadway wags dubbed the show "A Doll's Death." One even suggested "A Door's Life," in reference to the portal out of which Nora slams at the end of the original Ibsen play, and which 'danced' almost continually throughout the musical, far more interestingly than most of the rest of the action. (wiki)

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