A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine (1980 Original Broadway Cast) [Cast Recording]

Dick Vosburgh, Peggy Hewett, David Garrison, Frank Lazarus, Priscilla Lopez, Kate Draper, Jerry Herman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 10, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Drg
• ASIN: B000000PGT
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,772 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #22 in Music > Indie Music > Soundtracks > General

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Too Marvelous For Words, August 2, 1999

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This review is from: A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine (1980 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

This show is a pure delight. I only wish I could have seen it, but the recording is plentily enjoyable enough. Great old-fashioned songs, about old-fashioned movies, and the old-fashioned spirit of Hollywood. The first act is more of a revue of songs about film, the second act is an "unproduced" Marx Brothers film, Chechov's 'The Bear' complete with Margaret Dumont and the star-crossed lovers. It's a shame local theaters don't produce this show more. It's just too marvelous for words!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars End of Verse; Beginning of Song, June 4, 2005

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Music Fan (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine (1980 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

I was lucky enough to catch a local college's performance of A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, and I was so thrilled with the show that I HAD to get the original Broadway cast recording. Performed to the hilt by multi-talented cast members David Garrison, Frank Lazarus, Priscilla Lopez, Peggy Hewett, Stephen James and Kate Draper, the show is half tongue-in-cheek salute to movie musicals, and half Marx Brothers romp--and the music stands well on its own.

You probably shouldn't be drinking anything while listening to this CD for the first time, as you seriously run the risk of having it come right out your nose when a lyrical barb comes out of nowhere. As Jeanette MacDonald, Peggy Hewett sings of her beloved mountie in "Nelson": "A picture of strength, and good breeding of course, and of passion and warmth (I'm discussing his horse)..." Later, in Act Two, David Garrison (as Groucho Marx as Samovar the Lawyer!) sings to his dear Natasha: "Your angelic face I regard as the face of a Saint...Bernard." And who couldn't love the scatty tap-dance number "Doin' the Production Code," or hearing "The Good Ship Lollipop" piped out of a baritone sax?

But, as Frank Lazarus said in "I Love a Film Cliché": "Why am I telling YOU all this? And you, a perfect stranger!" So just buy the CD, and have a good time at the movies.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great show, July 2, 2006

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Jerald Maddow (Collingswood, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine (1980 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

As a huge fan of the Marx Bros, I saw this show in previews and again a month or two later. (Our local theatre company performed the musical several years ago and the production, although not Broadway quality, couldn't hurt the music.) I bought the LP and will and found it very enjoyable. I did not realize that it was on CD. I will definately buy it.