Original Broadway Cast Revival 1996
Varèse Sarabande VSD-5763
Original Release Date: October 1, 1996
Produced by Bruce Kimmel
Engineer: Vinnie Cirilli
Open April 4, 1996 Closed February 22, 1998 performances 780
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book
& Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical Direction by
Michael
Rafater
Shall
We Dance?
Getting
To Know You
Bruce
Kimmel and Lou Diamond Philips during the recording Session
Starring
Donna
Murphy
Lou
Diamond Philips
Taewon
Kim
Randall
Duk Kim
Joohee
Choi
Jose
Llana
SONGS
1. Overture
2. I Whistle a Happy Tune
3. Royal Dance Before the King
4. My Lord and Master
5. Hello, Young Lovers
6. March of the Siamese Children
7. Puzzlement
8. Getting to Know You
9. We Kiss in a Shadow
10. Shall I Tell You What I Think of You?
11. Something Wonderful
12. Finale to Act One - Company
13. I Have Dreamed
14. Hello, Young Lovers (Reprise)
15. Song of the King
16. Shall We Dance?
17. Confrontation
18. Procession of the White Elephant
19. Letter
20. Finale
For The
King and I, I was determined to make a different album than all the others that
were out. I felt that no King and I album had ever packed the emotional wallop
that the show does, because the score really ends with Shall We Dance? and yet
there is another twenty-five minutes in which all sorts of wonderful and
dramatic things happen and I really fought to include some of that material (all
underscored, of course) on the album – things like the processional, where we
find out the King is dying, things like Anna reading the letter – great stuff.
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