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Description / My Opinion
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Berkshire - Ordered 03/09/99 - Received 03/19/99 Deleted but still available from Footlight Records and Berkshire Outlet. Flahooley opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on May 14, 1951 and ran for 40 performances. It was originally recorded on May 27, 1951. The booklet contains 3 pages of text and 3 pages of synopsis by Ken Mandelbaum, and 3 pages of an interview of Barbara Cook by Ken Mandelbaum. There is a big B&W picture of Barbara Cook, one of Ernest Truex, and one big color picture of people working on puppets. After a number of listenings, because I wanted a clear status of mine for this CD, I must say that it is very nice. The sound is a little old, but the spirit of the show seems to have remained intact. The songs performed by Yma Sumac are quite fantastic, with a very special mood of mistery and strangeness. As a whole, the recording is entertaining, with a number of pretty songs that strangely remain in the mind and that get out when one is not aware of it ("But where is that song from?"). A nice addition to my collection.
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Musical Numbers
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| 1 | 0:35 | Prologue | |
| 2 | 2:42 | You, Too, Can Be A Puppet | Puppet Singers |
| 3 | 3:32 | Here's To Your Illusions | Barbara Cook, Jerome Courtland |
| 4 | 0:24 | Telephone Switchboard Scene | |
| 5 | 2:55 | B. G. Bigelow, Inc. | Executives, Personnel |
| 6 | 3:16 | Najla's Lament | Yma Sumac |
| 7 | 2:09 | Who Says There Ain't No Santa Claus? | Jerome Courtland, Barbara Cook, Executives, Personnel |
| 8 | 1:11 | Flahooley! | Fay DeWitt, Marilyn Ross, Executives, Personnel |
| 9 | 2:34 | The World Is Your Balloon | Barbara Cook, Jerome Courtland, Puppet Singing Company |
| 10 | 2:52 | He's Only Wonderful | Barbara Cook, Jerome Courtland |
| 11 | 1:19 | Najla's Song Of Joy / Arabian For "Get Happy" | Yma Sumac |
| 12 | 0:26 | Inner-Office Scene | |
| 13 | 1:42 | Jump Little Chillun' | Ensemble |
| 14 | 0:53 | Consternation | |
| 15 | 0:55 | No More Flahooleys | Ensemble |
| 16 | 1:41 | Spirit Of Capsulanti | Marilyn Ross, Townspeople |
| 17 | 2:59 | Birds / Enchantment | Yma Sumac |
| 18 | 1:48 | Come Back, Little Genie | Barbara Cook |
| 19 | 3:21 | The Springtime Cometh | Irwin Corey |
| 20 | 3:23 | Finale | Entire Company |
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The Cast
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| | A March Of Time Voice | Stanley Carlson | | | Clyde | Bil Baird | | | Mirabelle | Cora Baird | | | Sandy | Barbara Cook | | | Sylvester | Jerome Courtland | | | Griselda | Fay DeWitt | | | Switchboard Operators | Vicki Barrett | | | | Jane Fisher | | | | Laurel Shelby | | | | Tafi Towers | | | | Urylee Leonardos | | | | Annaliese Wildman | | | K. T. Pettigrew | Edith Atwater | | | Quimsy | Stanley Carlson | | | Peabody | Ted Thurston | | | Evans | Rowan Tudor | | | Farquarson | Richard Temple | | | Lovingham | Andrew Aprea | | | Hastings | Edgar Thompson | | | Voice Of The P. A. | Tafi Towers | | | B. G. Bigelow | Ernest Truex | | | Miss Buckley | Marilyn Ross | | | Clayfoot Trowbridge | Rowan Tudor | | | Fowzi | Nehemiah Persoff | | | El-Akbar | Louis Nye | | | Najla | Yma Sumac | | | Buyers | Lee Ballard | | | | Ray Cook | | | | Clifford Fearl | | | | Franklin T. Syme | | | | Laurel Shelby | | | Abou Ben Atom | Irwin Corey | | | Elsa Bullinger | Lulu Bates | | | Citizens Of Capsulanti | Norval Tormsen | | | | Ray Cook | | | | Clifford Fearl | | | | Sheldon Ossosky | | | Arabs | Stanley Carlson | | | | Andrew Aprea | | | | Ted Thurston | | | | Rowan Tudor | | | Doctor Smith | Franklin T. Syme | | | Nurse | Laurel Shelby | | | Flahooley | Elizabeth Logue | | | Radio Voice | Edgar Thompson |
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