Runaways (Original Broadway Cast) [Cast Recording, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack]

Elizabeth Swados (Artist), Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 6, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Label: Drg
• ASIN: B00008XERJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,753 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Where Do People Go - Original Broadway Cast

2. Every Now And Then

3. Minnesota Strip/Song Of A Child Prostitute

4. Find Me A Hero

5. The Undiscovered Son

6. No Lullabies for Luis

7. We Are Not Strangers

8. The Basketball Song

9. Let Me Be A Kid

10. Revenge Song / Enterprise

11. Lullaby From Baby to Baby

12. Sometimes

13. Where Are Those People Who Did Hair

14. To the Dead Of Family Wars

15. Lonesome Of The Road/Let Me Be A Kid (Reprise)

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Original Cast Recordings
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-MAY-2003

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest musicals of all time, May 6, 2003

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Robert J Baumgartner (Potomac, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Runaways (Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

RUNAWAYS is composed by Elizabeth Swados and premiered at the Public Theather NYC, 1978. This excellent show which spans multiple musical styles featured such performers as Diane Lane, Trini Alverado, Jossie de Guzman, and Karen Evans. RUNAWAYS is great for anyone who likes shows in the style of HAIR, THE ME NOBODY KNOWS and INNER CITY (another AMAZING AMAZING musical avaliable on LP from Footlights Records NYC) For people who like urban musicals and rock music (RUNAWAYS even has a full rap, preety advanced for 1978, this is an album to have. The script is avaliable from Samuel French, NYC

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank goodness it's finally on CD, June 7, 2003

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Aviva Gutin (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Runaways (Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

A phenomenal soundtrack - listen for young Josie Guzman, later to become a star in the "Guys and Dolls" revival. I was involved with a community theater production of this musical at age 15, and I've been listening to a bad tape of a warped record for more than a decade. I couldn't be more thrilled to finally own it on CD!!

4.0 out of 5 stars Haunting, August 18, 2011

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B. McCoy (South Portland, ME) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Runaways (Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

This is not an easy soundtrack to sit through, just as the show is not easy to watch. But the music is often entrancing, if the sentiments/situations expressed are disturbing.

The musical was developed using interviews with children who were living on the streets in New York City in the 70s, much as A Chorus Line was developed by talking with dancers/gypsies. Reportedly, some of the cast were runaways themselves.

The music is more situational than integrated into the story. Some of it does not seem to match the sentiments presented in the lyrics. Other times -- especially in "Song Of A Child Prostitute" -- it is disconcertingly appropriate.

There is no plot line through the show/album. The musical itself was an integration of poetry, choreography, music, and costume to try to express the plight of children living on the street. Anyone who saw the deaf cast member furiously signing lyrics or pre-teen children wishing they could have had a childhood could be unmoved. (I highly recommend checking out the cast's performance at the Tony Awards on YouTube.)

This will stay with you, though none of the tunes are particularly "hummable." Especially is "Enterprise", which arguably can be called a rap song with it's rhymic patter -- a full year before the Sugar Hill Gang recorded "Rappers Delight."

There is no "moral" to this story, other than "Let me be young before I grow old. Let me be a kid." But this WILL stay with you.