Still "Young & Foolish"

Albert Hague

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 7, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 7, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lml Music
• ASIN: B00000HXF3
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #572,500 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Irv Lichtman, 1/16/99 - Billboard Magazine
Albert Hague is the composer of the melodies of two fine Broadway scores: 1955's Plain and Fancy (the source of his best known song "Young and Foolish") and 1959's Redhead. He is also familiar to movie and TV buffs from his role as a music professor in the film and TV series Fame. His wife, Renee Orin, is an actress and singer.

Together in a February 1998 performance at the Los Angeles nightspot Cinegrill, they sang with a nice, informal air and offered amiable chitchat. But for musical theater fans, the evening also served as a rare, winning reprise of Hague's work on Broadway, along with a haunting blues number, Early Blue Evening that he wrote with poet Langston Hughes.

Also of note are songs Hague wrote with the late comedian Allan ("Muddah, Faddah") Sherman for a 1968 show Fig Leaves Are Falling that never made it to Broadway. Whatever other failings hung over that musical, the songs presented here indicate that the score wasn't one of them. An entertaining and edifying cabaret performance.

Product Description
Albert Hague is probably best remembered for his indelible performance as Professor Shorofsky in the movie "Fame". He is also a tony award winning broadway composer ("Plain And Fancy" and "Redhead") and wrote the music to Dr. Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas". Joined by his wife, Renee Orin, who has starred opposite Gene Kelly, Jack Gilford & Jack Lemmon, on this live recording from the Cinegrill in Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel.

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