Varèse Sarabande VSD-5548

Original Release Date: November 1, 1994

Produced by Bruce Kimmel

Engineer: Vinnie Cirilli

Original Off-Broadway Revival Cast

Opened: May 26, 1994 Closed: July 14, 1994 Performances: 54

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

Starring

Anne BobbyMalcolm GetsAdam HellerMichele PawkAmy Ryder

Danny BursteinJames HindmanCass Morgan Rick Crom Christine Toy

SONGS

1. Overture
2. Merrily We Roll Along
3. That Frank
4. First Transition
5. Old Friends, Pt. 1/Like It Was
6. Franklin Shepard, Inc
7. Second Transition
8. Old Friends, Pt. 2
9. Growing Up
10. Third Transition
11. Not a Day Goes By, Pt. 1
12. Now You Know (Merrily We Roll Along)
13. Act Two Opening
14. It's a Hit!
15. Fourth Transition
16. Blob
17. Growing up, Pt. 2
18. Good Thing Going
19. Blob, Pt. 2
20. Fifth Transition
21. Bobby and Jackie and Jack
22. Not a Day Goes By, Pt. 2
23. Sixth Transition
24. Opening Doors
25. Seventh Transition
26. Our Time

And here’s a funny story: When we were recording Merrily We Roll Along, we got to Old Friends. We did a rehearsal(we were using Tunick’s reduced orchestrations, which were not actually used in the show at the York), and when it got to the end of the song “Damn few” it ended with a low button. I whipped around in my seat and said to Tunick, “A low button? A low button?” He looked at me for the longest time, and then smiled and said, “You think it should be a high button?” I said I did think it should be a high button. Steve Sondheim was sitting on the couch with his New York Times in front of his face – Tunick looked over to him, and the newspaper came down, and here is what Mr. Sondheim said: “Bruce is right”. I love that. That is one of my favorite stories.