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Pure Comic Gold! --The Sunday Times
On a laughs-per-minute basis, this rollicking London import gives The Book of Mormon a run for its funny...If you re not having a good time at this show, you may be on the wrong medication. --The Hollywood Reporter
On a laughs-per-minute basis, this rollicking London import gives The Book of Mormon a run for its funny...If you re not having a good time at this show, you may be on the wrong medication. --The Hollywood Reporter
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Falling trousers, star crossed lovers, cross dressing mobsters and a fabulous on stage band are just some of what awaits at the funniest comedy musical to cross the pond in years. Directed by Tony and Oliver Award winner Nicholas Hytner. 15 skiffle songs by Grant Olding which are performed by the Craze. This side splitting show with all the great London Cast arrives at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on April 15, straight form a sold out run in London's West End.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is the ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING, straight from the National Theatre in London. Trust me, the original is always best!
It's a lively, engaging, rousing, inventive musical mix. The styles are clever and fresh and toe-tapping good. The lyrics and themes of the songs are clever double-entendres that reflect (but do not exactly mirror) themes of the show, which makes for fun, universally themed music that's a blast to listen to.
It's hard to describe the styles. Skiffle has the raw energy and invention of, say, the early Beatles in Berlin, before they made it big. The sound is addicting, and energetic. And although skiffle is known for being the music of the street, the extreme skill and polished professionalism of these fine musicians clearly shines through. So it's the best of both worlds: like the raw energy of a street performance, but with amazing tunes, clever lyrics, and the very best musicians.
It's a lively, engaging, rousing, inventive musical mix. The styles are clever and fresh and toe-tapping good. The lyrics and themes of the songs are clever double-entendres that reflect (but do not exactly mirror) themes of the show, which makes for fun, universally themed music that's a blast to listen to.
It's hard to describe the styles. Skiffle has the raw energy and invention of, say, the early Beatles in Berlin, before they made it big. The sound is addicting, and energetic. And although skiffle is known for being the music of the street, the extreme skill and polished professionalism of these fine musicians clearly shines through. So it's the best of both worlds: like the raw energy of a street performance, but with amazing tunes, clever lyrics, and the very best musicians.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By John Strong
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I recently saw this show in NYC with the original London cast. Brilliant. One of the funniest shows I've ever seen. And the music just adds to the comic mania of it all!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Matthew
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I bought this soundtrack prior to seeing the play... it was on accident, I thought it was the actual play. I ended up keeping the soundtrack and listening to it again after seeing it live. Now it helps be relive this hilarious night...HIGHLY recommended, but only if you have seen the play.
By Rodger Chung
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Been have the luck to watch it live in Hong Kong early this year. Although not the original London Cast, but I was still laughing my head off during the performance. Surely the song "The Brighton Line" is just stuck in my head and goes on again and again...
Once again, I wish I can watch it again, SOON!!!!!
Once again, I wish I can watch it again, SOON!!!!!
By Steven L.
Format:Audio CD
The National Theatre brought its acclaimed production of "One Man, Two Guvnors" to America under the direction of Nicholas Hytner. Featuring Tony Award-winner James Corden in the lead role ("The History Boys," "Doctor Who"), the play with music contained a retro score, accurately composed by Grant Olding, that kept you tapping your feet with enjoyment from start to finish.
Olding is a musical chameleon. Having collaborated with Hytner on several theater scores in the UK, he has created an wonderful recording based on the "skiffle" music of early 1960's England, a folk-based genre that began in America with Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, subsequently coming into popularity overseas when the Englishman Lonnie Donnegan became a star with cover versions of his American counterparts. The movement directly affected a quartet based in Liverpool, and is highly discernible in the early music of the Beatles.
Wanting a house band to provide live performance before, after, and during scene changes for the production, "The Craze" was created, and they provided the catchy hooks and lyrics of Olding's (all of which were strategically placed within the show, loosely based on Goldoni's "The Servant of Two Masters"), and were increasingly accompanied by the cast throughout the evening.
Fans of The Kinks' hits "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" will enjoy the homages "The Ballad of Ted and Calista" and "Strung Out Dolly." "My Old Man's a Gannet" could easily have been written by Guthrie (writer of "This Land Is Your Land").... Read more ›
Olding is a musical chameleon. Having collaborated with Hytner on several theater scores in the UK, he has created an wonderful recording based on the "skiffle" music of early 1960's England, a folk-based genre that began in America with Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, subsequently coming into popularity overseas when the Englishman Lonnie Donnegan became a star with cover versions of his American counterparts. The movement directly affected a quartet based in Liverpool, and is highly discernible in the early music of the Beatles.
Wanting a house band to provide live performance before, after, and during scene changes for the production, "The Craze" was created, and they provided the catchy hooks and lyrics of Olding's (all of which were strategically placed within the show, loosely based on Goldoni's "The Servant of Two Masters"), and were increasingly accompanied by the cast throughout the evening.
Fans of The Kinks' hits "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" will enjoy the homages "The Ballad of Ted and Calista" and "Strung Out Dolly." "My Old Man's a Gannet" could easily have been written by Guthrie (writer of "This Land Is Your Land").... Read more ›
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Enjoyable songs....would have loved to see thg play. I'm happy to have the albumn in my stage show cast collection.
15 of 23 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A delight in London and New York - what a pity Local 802 refused to let this BE a Broadway Cast Album too!
May 17, 2012
By John Esche
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It's cause for celebration whenever a show succeeds - even more so when it succeeds so spectacularly on one side of the Atlantic that the various theatrical unions allow the personnel which created the success to repeat their jobs on the other side of "The Pond." ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, a rewrite of Carlo Goldoni's ancient farce with a new incidental (and Tony nominated) score by Grant Olding documented delightfully on this CD was so successful that Actor's Equity made the rare gesture of allowing nearly every actor and actress in the cast in London to repeat their assignments (at least for the beginning of the show's run) on Broadway. They all appear on Track 14 ("The Finale") of this Original Cast Album of the National Theatre of Great Britian Production.
Unfortunately, Musicians' Union Local 802 was not as understanding as their sister union, and the composer and musicians which made the London score such a hit (and are marvelous on the OTHER 14 tracks on the CD) were NOT permitted to repeat their performances on this side of the Atlantic so the only album the show is likely to get will not be a Broadway Cast Album as well and customers in New York - if they can be persuaded to buy the CD will have to settle for an album performed by people (on all but one track) they did not see. If this does damage to the publicity and ticket sales for the Broadway production which in the long run could mean MORE employment for their members, 802 clearly doesn't give a damn. Given this attitude, is it any wonder a lot of Broadway audiences are NOT disturbed at the prospect of more pre-recorded orchestras in their theatres so long as the quality is kept up? 802 spends a lot of money claiming to protect the quality of the music in our theatres. They clearly don't mean it.
Unfortunately, Musicians' Union Local 802 was not as understanding as their sister union, and the composer and musicians which made the London score such a hit (and are marvelous on the OTHER 14 tracks on the CD) were NOT permitted to repeat their performances on this side of the Atlantic so the only album the show is likely to get will not be a Broadway Cast Album as well and customers in New York - if they can be persuaded to buy the CD will have to settle for an album performed by people (on all but one track) they did not see. If this does damage to the publicity and ticket sales for the Broadway production which in the long run could mean MORE employment for their members, 802 clearly doesn't give a damn. Given this attitude, is it any wonder a lot of Broadway audiences are NOT disturbed at the prospect of more pre-recorded orchestras in their theatres so long as the quality is kept up? 802 spends a lot of money claiming to protect the quality of the music in our theatres. They clearly don't mean it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful
Did not enjoy any of it. Maybe one has to see it to appreciate it. By it self, it is no good.
Published 8 months ago by Joel L. Savitz Do
4.0 out of 5 stars
Book, CD, but why no DVD?
Note: Amazon is forcing me to "rate this item" in order to post a comment. My four stars apply only to the film I saw, not to any of the non-DVD products listed under this... Read more
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