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ALICE IN WONDERLAND - MCSR 3012

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This original Broadway cast recording of Eva Le Galliene and Flora Friebus’ adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland stories is issued on CD for its first reappearance since the original 78s were released in 1947, to celebrate the centenary of the British composer Richard Addinsell. Bambi Linn is an incisive Alice surrounded by a superb cast of American actors. This is a potted performance, lasting almost an hour, giving dialogue as well as Addinsell’s many songs. A set of the 78s in good condition was traced in the United States, and these records have been digitally transferred into stereo with astonishing clarity. Addinsell’s music is always understanding of Carroll’s mysterious world, from the lovely summery melody at its opening, to the sadness of the White King’s great ballad.

With: Bambi Linn

  
 

 

Tracks:

    
  1. Opening into ‘A boat beneath a sunny sky’ / ‘Jabberwocky’
  2. The White Rabbit; The Pool of Tears; The Caucus Race
  3. The Caterpillar ‘You are old, father William’
  4. The Footmen ‘Speak roughly to your little boy’; The Cheshire Cat
  5. The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
  6. The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle ; ‘Will you walk a little faster?’; Turtle soup’
  7. The Trial; ‘They told me you had been to her’
  8. The Red Queen
  9. The White Queen
  10. Humpty Dumpty
  11. The White Knight; ‘A sitting on a gate’
  12. The Red Queen and the White Queen; ‘Lullaby’
  13. Queen Alice; ‘To the looking-glass world’
  14. The end of Looking Glass World; ‘A boat beneath a sunny sky: reprise’