Meet Me In St. Louis (1989 Broadway Revival Cast) [Cast Recording]

Betty Garrett, George Hearn, Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane, Charlotte Moore, Milo O'Shea | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 10, 1992)
• Original Release Date: June 22, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Drg
• ASIN: B000000PIH
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,823 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture & Meet Me in St. Louis

2. The Boy Next Door

3. Be Anything But a Girl

4. Skip to My Lou

5. Under the Bamboo Tree

6. Banjos

7. Ghosties and Ghoulies and Things That Go Bump in the Night and Hallo

8. Wasn't It Fun?

9. The Trolley Song

10. Entr'acte/Ice

11. Raving Beauty

12. Touch of the Irish

13. You Are for Loving

14. Day in New York

15. Irish Jig (The Ball)

16. Diamonds in the Starlight

17. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

18. Paging Mister Sousa

19. Finale [Alternate Take][*]

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Soundtracks & Scores
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 1-MAY-1990

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars an excellent cast album, October 21, 2003

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Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews
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MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS was adapted for the Broadway stage in 1989, with an expanded score by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and featuring a cast made up of first-timers and seasoned veterans. The cast album is a pure delight.

The story concerns the Smith family: Mr and Mrs Smith (George Hearn and Charlotte Moore), Grandpa (Milo O'Shea), son Lon (Michael O'Steen), and daughters Rose (Juliet Lambert), Esther (Donna Kane), Agnes (Rachel Graham) and precocious Tootie (Courtney Peldon). There's also the comical old cook Katie (Betty Garrett).

The plot zeros in on Esther and her romance with the 'Boy Next Door', John Truitt (Jason Workman). With the Worlds Fair coming to St. Louis, exciting times are ahead, but when Mr Smith announces that the family will be moving to New York very soon, it looks like Esther's romance will come to a premature end. Other subplots include Tootie's antics culminating in a very-eventful Halloween, and Rose's various suitors.

Donna Kane is well-suited to the role of Esther. She sounds eerily like Judy Garland, particularly during "Under the Bamboo Tree" and leads the company in a soaring "Trolley Song".

Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane beefed up the score significantly for the stage version, adding new numbers like "Be Anything But a Girl", "Ice", "A Touch of the Irish" (a showstopper for Betty Garrett), "A Day in New York", "Diamonds in the Starlight" and the big dance number "Banjos" led by Michael O'Steen. Blane and Martin also lifted two songs from their BEST FOOT FORWARD score ("Raving Beauty" and "You Are For Loving"), and re-wrote some of the old movie songs.

All-in-all, a great cast album.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great Stage adaption, June 27, 2000

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Frankie (Los Angeles, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews

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All I can say is awsome! I bought because the movie soundtrack wasn't available at the store I looked for it. It was such an awsome buy. The overture is brilliant! And the added songs are all showstoppers. The ballads will make you cry and the upbeat ones will make your toe tap! The sound is so clear that it feels your actually seeing it. The cast it great. Donna Kane goes a little overboard with her Vibrato but gives a satisfying perfomance. The best song in the show is You are for loving which was written specialy for the show. This is a great CD that you won't regret buying!

4.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I needed!, September 13, 2010

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Kristina - See all my reviews

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I'm going to be in a production of this show, and I needed the CD to learn how the songs went. I bought it used, because I didn't necessarily need a new one for my purpose. The CD case had a few signs of being used before, which I expected, but the CD played perfectly! I'm very happy with my purchase. It is exactly what I needed!