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Description / My Opinion
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CD-Now - Ordered 02.06.2001 - Shipped 02.09.2001 - Received 02.17.2001 Sets Designed by Luciana Arrighi, Costumes Designed by Alan Barrett, Lighting Designed by Robert Ornbo, Musical Director Gareth Davies, Orchestrations Gordon Langford, Sound by David Collison, Stills Photography Michael Childers, Assistant Director David Myles, Musical Staging by Brian MacDonald, Conducted for the Recording by Grant Hossack, Directed by John Schlesinger, Producers: Lewis M. Allen, Si Litvinoff, in association with Theatre Projects and Richard Lukins, by arrangement with Donald Albery. I And Albert was recorded at PRT Studios, London on January 23, 30, 1981. The show opened at the Piccadilly Theatre, London on November 6, 1972. The booklet contains two pages of text by Lee Adams about how that show came to life and a nearly three pages synopsis. There are 5 medium, 6 small and one big pictures of the performers, either on stage or not. This is a pretty recording, and I find in the music a little part of the magic I found in Nightingale, but unfortunately, this is only at some moments, the score being more conventional according to me, and the vocal performances being also less interesting (it's not the same singing style) in this musical. The subject also is less attractive for me, as I'm more attracted by fairy tales than by more serious history (I'm not saying this one is always serious though, Just You And Me is quite funny!). This is a recording I'll have to listen carefully at again in the future because of some potential, but that deceived me because Nightingale had made me expect so much from a Strouse score.
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Musical Numbers
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| 1 | 4:14 | Vivat! Vivat Regina! | People of England |
| | | It Has All Begun | Victoria, Lehzen, People of England |
| 2 | 3:20 | Leave It Alone | Lord Melbourne |
| 3 | 3:05 | I've 'Eard The Bloody 'Indoos 'As It Worse | Company |
| 4 | 2:39 | The Victoria And Albert Waltz | Orchestra |
| 5 | 3:36 | This Gentle Land | Albert |
| | | This Noble Land | Victoria, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, The Cabinet, Chorale |
| 6 | 3:55 | I And Albert | Victoria |
| 7 | 3:27 | His Royal Highness | Lord Palmerston, Lady Caro, the Foreign Office |
| 8 | 3:17 | Enough! | Victoria, Albert |
| | | Victoria | Albert |
| 9 | 6:06 | All Glass | Company |
| | | The Genius Of Man | Company |
| 10 | 3:09 | Just You And Me | Victoria, Albert, Royal Children |
| 11 | 1:55 | Draw The Blinds | Victoria, Ladies-in-Waiting |
| 12 | 2:06 | The Widow At Windsor Words of the poem by Rudyard Kipling are used. | Soldiers |
| 13 | 2:27 | No One To Call Me Victoria | Victoria |
| 14 | 3:15 | When You Speak With A Lady | Disraeli |
| 15 | 1:25 | Go It, Old Girl! | Diamond Jubilee Crowd |
| 16 | 2:11 | Finale: This Noble Land | Victoria |
The Cast
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| | Victoria | Polly James | | | Prince Albert | Sven-Bertil Taube | | | Lord Melbourne | Lewis Fiander | | | Disraeli | Lewis Fiander | | | Lord Palmerston | Aubrey Woods | | | Baroness Lehzen | Gay Soper | | | Lady Caro | Gay Soper | | | The People Of England, The Empire and Foreigners | Chorus |
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