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Description / My Opinion
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CD Now - Ordered 09.01.2000 - Shipped 09.08.2000 - Received 09.28.2000 Producers: Lee Guber, Martin Heinfling and Marvin A. Krauss. Sets designed by Beni Montresor, Costumes designed by Florence Klotz, Lighting designed by Jules Fisher, Sound designed by Peter Fitzgerald, Music Direction, Vocal and Dance Arrangements by Eric Stern, Orchestrations by Michael Starobin, Recording Music Supervision & Overture Orchestrated by Larry Wilcox, Associate Producer Madeline Lee Gilford, General Manager Joey Parnes, Production Supervisor Robert V. Straus, Casting by Meg Simon and Frank Kumin, General Press Representation Joshua Ellis, Musical Staging Ron Field, Directed by Gene Saks. The booklet contains one big B&W picture of Julia Migenes, a 3/4 of page introduction by Charles Strouse and a 2 pages (and a quarter) synopsis by Stephen Schwartz.
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Musical Numbers
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| 1 | 5:00 | Overture | Orchestra |
| 2 | 4:09 | I Remember / Greenhorns | Homesick Immigrant, Guards, New Immigrants, Cynical Americans, Rebecca, Recruiter |
| 3 | 3:57 | Brand New World | Rebecca, David |
| 4 | 3:24 | Children Of The Wind | Rebecca |
| 5 | 4:42 | Penny A Tune | Klezmer Musicians, Rachel, Sweatshop Workers, Rebecca, Rosa, Bella, Ben, David |
| 6 | 4:12 | Easy For You | Rebecca, Saul, David |
| 7 | 1:25 | Hard To Be A Prince | David, Yiddish Theater Hamlet, Other Actors |
| 8 | 3:09 | Blame It On The Summer Night | Rebecca |
| 9 | 1:57 | For My Mary | Ben, Irish Tenor |
| 10 | 4:58 | Rags | Avram, Bella |
| 11 | 2:29 | What's Wrong With That? | "Big Tim" Sullivan, Frankie, Nathan, Mike |
| 12 | 2:04 | Nothing Will Hurt Us Again | Rebecca, David, Nathan |
| 13 | 1:03 | Entr'acte | Orchestra |
| 14 | 1:04 | Cherry Street Café | Sophie Tucker |
| 15 | 2:36 | Yankee Boy | Nathan, David, Neighbors |
| 16 | 2:53 | Uptown | Nathan, Rebecca |
| 17 | 2:44 | Wanting | Rebecca, Saul |
| 18 | 4:41 | Three Sunny Rooms | Rachel, Avram |
| 19 | 4:10 | The Sound Of Love | David, Ben, Morris's Mother, Morris, Shoppers |
| 20 | 2:22 | Kaddish | David, Rebecca, Avram, Men |
| 21 | 4:32 | Bread And Freedom / Dancing With The Fools | Rosa, Rebecca, Strikers, Nathan |
| 22 | 2:36 | Finale | David, Rebecca, Cynical Americans, New Immigrants |
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The Cast
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| | Rebecca Hershkowitz | Julia Migenes | | | David | Josh Blake | | | Nathan Hershkowitz (Harris) | Larry Kert | | | Saul | Terrence Mann | | | Bella Cohen | Judy Kuhn | | | Avram | Dick Latessa | | | Ben Levitowitz | Lonny Price | | | Rachel | Marcia Lewis | | | Homesick Immigrant | Andy Gale | | | Cynical Americans | Michael Cone | | | | Michael Davis | | | Klezmer Leader | Mark Fotopoulos | | | Rosa | Audrey Lavine | | | A Yiddish Hamlet | Peter Samuel | | | Irish Tenor | Michael Cone | | | "Big Tim" Sullivan | Michael Davis | | | Frankie | Michael Cone | | | Mike | Mark Fotopoulos | | | Sophie Tucker | Wendy Kimball | | | Morris | Devon Michaels | | | Morris's mother | Cissy Rebich | | | Immigrants, Ellis Island Guards, Cynical Americans, Klezmer Musicians, Yiddish Theater Actors, Workers, Neighbors, Shoppers, Strikers | John Aller | | | | Michael Cone | | | | Michael Davis | | | | Mark Fotopoulos | | | | Andy Gale | | | | Joanna Glushak | | | | Wendy Kimball | | | | Audrey Lavine | | | | Devon Michaels | | | | Cissy Rebich | | | | Peter Samuel | | | Additional Ensemble for this Recording | Marian Hampton | | | | Karen La Wilder | | | | P.J. Nelson | | | | Craig Pomranz | | | | Lee Winston |
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