Cabaret
Louise Gold was featured as Maria one of the Kit Kat
Klub Girls, JAY/TER recording, recorded on: 29 & 30 June, 1 July, 2
November 2 & 3 December 1993 at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Catalogue number: (Double
CD) CDTER2 1210, (Highlights CD) Show CD021, (Highlights
Cassette) SHOW MC021, (Curtain Call CD) CURTCD009, (Music Theatre
Hour CD) CDTEH6012, (Musicals
Collection CD) MUS C N08.
Cast
M.C. -
Jonathan Pryce
Fraulein
Schneider - Judi Dench
Herr Shultz
- Fred Ebb
Clifford
Bradshaw - Gregg Edelman
Sally Bowles
- Maria Friedman
Fraulein
Kost - Caroline O’Connor
Ernst Ludwig
- Marcus Allen Cooper
German Youth
- John Mark Ainsley
Kit Kat
Girls
Maria - Louise Gold
Lulu - Gay Soper
Rosie - Claire Moore
Fritzie - Jacqueline Dankworth
Frenchie - Clare Burt
Company:
Michael
Cantwell, Nicolas
Colicos, Kate Copstick, Jackie Crawford, Dominic Curtis,
Geoffrey Dallamore, Lucy Dixon, Robert Fardell, Philip
Griffiths, Megan Kelly, Bruce Ogston, Howard Samuels, Samantha
Shaw, Gareth Snook, Dawn Spence, John Stefaniuk, Nadia
Strachen, Josie Walker, Nicholas Warnford, and, James Wren
With The
National Symphony Orchestra, Leader Perry Montague Mason, Conducted
by John Owen Edwards
Production Team
Music
by - John Kander
Lyrics by - Fred
Ebb
Book by - Joe
Masteroff
Based on the
play by - John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood
Produced by
- John Yap
Sleeve Notes
- Rexton S Bunnet
Track Listing
Double CD: CDTER2 1210
CD1/Act One
1. Willkommen -M.C.,
and company (Jonathan Pryce
and Company)
2. So What -
Fraulein Schneider (Judi Dench)
3. Don’t Tell Mama
- Sally and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
4. Telephone Dance
- Clifford and Company (Gregg Edelman and Company)
5. Perfectly Marvellous
- Sally and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
6. Two Ladies - M.C.
Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore)
7. It Couldn’t Please Me More
- Herr Shultz and Fraulein Schneider (Fred Ebb and Judi Dench)
8. Tomorrow Belongs To Me
- German Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men)
9. Why Should I Wake Up
-Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
10. Sitting Pretty
- MC and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
11. Married - Herr
Shultz and Fraulein Shneider (Fred Ebb and Judi Dench)
12. Fruit Shop Dance
- Orchestra
13. Meeskite - Herry
Shultz with Sally and Company (Fred Ebb with Maria Friedman and
Company)
14. Tomorrow Belongs To Me (Reprise) -
Fraulein Kost, Ernest and Company (Caroline O’Connor, Marcus Allen
Cooper, and Company)
CD2/Act Two
1. Entr’acte - Kit
Kat Klub Band (The Orchestra)
2. Kick Line -
Orchestra
3. Married (Reprise)
- Herr Shultz (Fred Ebb)
4. If You Could See Her
- M.C. (Jonathan Pryce)
5. What Would You Do?
- Fraulein Shcneider (Judi Dench)
6. Sally’s Revolt -
Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
7. Cabaret - Sally
(Maria Friedman)
8. Break Up - Sally
and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
9. Finale Ultimo
- Clifford, M.C., Herr Shultz, Fraulein Schneider, Sally, and Company (Gregg
Edelman, Jonathan Pryce, Fred Ebb, Judi Dench, Maria
Friedman, and, Company)
10. Curtain Calls
- Company
11. Exit Music
- Orchestra
Bonus Tracks - from the 1987 Broadway revival
12. Money ‘87’
- M.C. and Company (Jonathan Pryce and Company)
13. Don’t Go - Clifford
and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
14. I Don’t Care Much
- M.C. (Jonathan Pryce)
Bonus Tracks - from the Motion Picture
15. Mein Herr - Sally
with The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
16. Maybe This Time
- Sally (Maria Friedman)
17. Money Money
- M.C. and Sally (Jonathan Pryce and Maria Friedman)
18. Tiller Girls
- The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
Highlights CD: Show CD021
1. Willkommen -M.C., and company (Jonathan Pryce and
Company)
2. Don’t Tell Mama - Sally
and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
3. The Telephone song (Telephone Dance) -
Clifford and Company (Gregg Edelman and Company)
4. Perfectly Marvellous _ Sally
and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
5. Two Ladies - M.C.
Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore)
6. Tomorrow Belongs To Me - German
Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men)
7. Why Should I Wake Up
-Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
8. Maybe This Time - Sally
(Maria Friedman)
9. Sitting Pretty - MC and
The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
10. Money Money - M.C.
and Sally (Jonathan Pryce and Maria Friedman)
11. If You Could See Her - M.C. (Jonathan
Pryce)
12. Cabaret - Sally (Maria Friedman)
Curtain Call CD: CURTCD009
1. Willkommen -M.C., and company (Jonathan Pryce and
Company)
2. Don’t Tell Mama - Sally
and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
3. The Telephone song (Telephone Dance) -
Clifford and Company (Gregg Edelman and Company)
4. Perfectly Marvellous _ Sally
and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
5. Two Ladies - M.C.
Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore)
6. Tomorrow Belongs To Me - German
Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men)
7. Why Should I Wake Up
-Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
8. Maybe This Time - Sally
(Maria Friedman)
9. Sitting Pretty - MC and
The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
10. Money Money - M.C.
and Sally (Jonathan Pryce and Maria Friedman)
11. If You Could See Her - M.C. (Jonathan
Pryce)
12. Cabaret - Sally (Maria Friedman)
Music Theatre Hour CD: CDTEH6012
1. Willkommen -M.C.,
and company (Jonathan Pryce
and Company), 5:14
2. So What -
Fraulein Schneider (Judi Dench), 3:15
3. Mein Herr - Sally
with The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie, Fritzie, Texas and Frenchie) (Maria
Friedman, with: Louise Gold, Gay Soper, Claire Moore, Jacqueline
Dankworth, Caroline O’Connor, and, Clare Burt), 3:33
4. Perfectly Marvellous
- Sally and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman), 5:07
5. Two Ladies - M.C.
Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore), 2:34
6. It Couldn’t Please Me More
- Herr Shultz and Fraulein Schneider (Fred Ebb and Judi Dench),
3:29
7. Tomorrow Belongs To Me
- German Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men), 2:05
8. Don’t Go -
Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman), 3:39
9. Money Money
- M.C. and Sally (Jonathan Pryce and Maria Friedman), 3:03
10. Married - Herr
Shultz and Fraulein Shneider (Fred Ebb and Judi Dench), 2:41
11. Maybe This Time
- Sally (Maria Friedman), 3:34
12. Meeskite - Herry
Shultz with Sally and Company (Fred Ebb with Maria Friedman and
Company), 4:41
13. If You Could See Her
- M.C. (Jonathan Pryce), 2:45
14. What Would You Do?
- Fraulein Shcneider (Judi Dench), 3:30
15. Sally’s Revolt -
Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman), 1:05
16. Cabaret - Sally
(Maria Friedman), 4:19
17. Finale (Finale Ultimo)
- Clifford, M.C., Herr Shultz, Fraulein Schneider, Sally, and Company (Gregg
Edelman, Jonathan Pryce, Fred Ebb, Judi Dench, Maria
Friedman, and, Company), 4:43
Musicals Collection CD: MUS C N08
1. Willkommen -M.C., and company
2. Don’t Tell Mama - Sally
and The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
3. The Telephone song (Telephone Dance) -
Clifford and Company (Gregg Edelman and Company)
4. Perfectly Marvellous _ Sally
and Clifford (Maria Friedman and Gregg Edelman)
5. Two Ladies - M.C.
Louise and Claire (Maria and Rosie) (Jonathan Pryce, Louise Gold,
and, Claire Moore)
6. Tomorrow Belongs To Me - German
Youth with Men (John Mark Ainsley with Men)
7. Why Should I Wake Up
-Clifford and Sally (Gregg Edelman and Maria Friedman)
8. Maybe This Time - Sally
(Maria Friedman)
9. Sitting Pretty - MC and
The Girls (Maria, Lulu, Rosie,
10. If You Could See Her - M.C. (Jonathan
Pryce)
11. Cabaret - Sally (Maria Friedman)
12. Finale (Finale Ultimo)
- Clifford, M.C., Herr Shultz, Fraulein Schneider, Sally, and Company (Gregg
Edelman, Jonathan Pryce, Fred Ebb, Judi Dench, Maria
Friedman, and, Company)
The Highlights Cassette Show MC021, follows
the same listing as the Highlights CD Show CD021,
with tracks 1 to 6 on Side A, and tracks 7 to 12 on Side B. The Curtain Call CD CURTCD009, follows
exactly the same listing as the Highlights CD Show CD021.
Although in the plot-line the girls in the club are
meant to be native German speakers, with the exception of Sally, who is
supposed to be English-speaking. On this recording it was actually the other
way round. Technically the Swiss-born Maria Friedman’s first language is
German. Of the other girls: Jacqueline Dankworth, Louise Gold, Claire
Moore, and, Gay Soper are English born and bred; while Caroline O’Connor
was born in England but raised in Australia. Clare Burt is probably
English too, but the webmaster isn’t sure. .
Sally Bowles was really based on a Scottish girl, Jean
Ross, she later married Claude Cockburn, who incidentally was a
supporter of Unity Theatre.
In 1996 Clare Burt, heard here as one of the
Kit Kat Club Girls. played Sally Bowles in a BBC Radio 2 broadcast of Cabaret.
Louise Gold, Claire Moore,
and, Jonathan Pryce’s recording of Two Ladies also features on Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals .. Clare Burt and Howard Samuels also feature on
that album, for which Rexton S Bunnet did the sleeve notes.
Louise Gold, Claire Moore, and, Jonathan Pryce’s recording of Two Ladies also features The Great Musicals - Wonderful Tales. Caroline O’Connor also features on that
album.
An excerpt of Maria Friedman and Jonathan
Pryce’s recording of Money Money managed to find its way onto
The History Of The Musical
Wilkcommen from this recording
features on Centre Stage Showtime!. Maria Friedman also features on that
album.
Judi Dench had previously directed The Boys From Syracuse .
John Kander and Fred Ebb also
wrote
Nicolas Colicos, Dominic Curtis, Gregg
Edelman, Robert Fardell, Louise Gold, Philip Griffiths,
Bruce Ogston and Gareth Snook with the NSO Ensemble conducted
by John Owen Edwards all appear on the JAY/TER recording of On The Town, produced by John Yap with sleeve
notes by Rexton S Bunnet.
Louise Gold, Gregg Edelman, Nicolas
Colicos and Gareth Snook,
with: Dominic Curtis, Robert Fardell, and, Bruce Ogston
and also the NSO conducted by John Owen Edwards also sang on
JAY/TER recording of Anything Goes
(Recording). - Website Recommended Album
Louise Gold, Maria Friedman, Jacqueline
Dankworth, Michael Cantwell, Kate Copstick, Lucy Dixon
and Gareth Snook had all previously appeared together in Merrily
We Roll Along (Stage Production) and on that cast’s Merrily We Roll Along (Recording).
Louise Gold had previously sung under
the musical direction of John Owen Edwards in Metropolitan Mikado
Louise Gold and Gay Soper had
previously sung under the musical direction of John Owen Edwards in a
concert of highlights from Ratepayers' Iolanthe
& Metropolitan Mikado
Louise Gold and Gay Soper had
previously appeared together in a one night concert staging of a musical called
The Soap Opera
Louise Gold, Maria Friedman,
and, Claire Moore had previously sung together in A Time To Start Living and Kids At Heart.
Lucy Dixon and Dawn Spence
also appeared in Kids At Heart.
Maria Friedman, Louise Gold, and,
Claire Moore may have appeared together in Will-Aid
Louise Gold and Maria Friedman
also appeared together in Sondheim At
The Barbican.
Louise Gold and Bruce Ogston
appeared in Let ‘Em Eat Cake
Louise Gold and Nicolas Colicos went
on to appear in Mamma Mia.
Louise Gold, Michael Cantwell,
and, Gareth Snook had previously appeared in Assassins.
Louise Gold and Michael Cantwell
went on to star in One Touch Of Venus
(2000 Production), and appear as part of The Company Of Mary Poppins in a
late night FUNdraising special.
Louise Gold and Philip Griffiths
had previously appeared in Anything Goes
(Stage Show).
Judi Dench, and, Claire Moore
may have appeared in Comedy Tonight
John Owen
Edwards and the NSO also feature on some of the recordings The Best Of Broadway Musicals and Great Duets From The Musicals,
produced by John Yap, with Sleeve notes by Rexton S Bunnet.
The NSO also feature on Stop The World I Want To Get Off
produced by John Yap with sleeve notes by Rexton S Bunnet.
Clare Burt, Gregg Edelman,
and the NSO conducted by John Owen Edwards also feature on: Cole Porter - Night And Day
Judi Dench and Gay Soper went on to appear in Regents Park 70th Anniversary Gala,
and, Side By Side By Sondheim 30th
Anniversary Gala.
Maria Friedman, Jonathan Pryce, Caroline
O’Connor, Howard Samuels and The National Symphony Orchestra
conducted by John Owen Edwards also feature on The History Of The Musical which
includes an excerpt from Maria Friedman and Jonathan Pryce’s
recording of Money Money.
Gay Soper went on to appear at Dress Circle Grand Reopening
Sleeve note writer Rexton S Bunnet was also the
researcher for Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue.
Jonathan Pryce went on to appear on
television on A Week In The West End.
Clare Burt, Gregg Edelman,. Claire
Moore, and, Caroline O’Connor can also be heard on Simply Musicals, which also features the NSO
conducted by John Owen Edwards.
Clare Burt
along with The National Symphony
Orchestra conducted by John
Owen Edwards can also be heard on The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century.
Clare Burt has gone on to
appear in A Love Letter To Dan.
Lucy Dixon, and, Howard Samuels may have gone on to
appear in Dear Ralph.
The NSO
conducted by John Owen Edwards
feature on The Great Musicals – Glamour And
Majesty
Caroline
O’Connor’s recording credits include The Great Musicals – Dashing Heroes,
Blushing Maidens, which also features The
National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards.
Clare Burt, Marcus Allen Cooper, Jacqueline Dankworth, Gregg Edelman, and, Louise Gold’s recording credits include
The Great Musicals – Laughter And Tears;
This also features The National Symphony
Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards.
Michael
Cantwell has gone on to appear in Mary Poppins.
Review
by Emma Shane
Up
until now doing a complete version of Cabaret has been something
of an impossible task, mainly because the stage and film versions of the all
important role of Sally Bowles are musically so different. On this recording,
however, Maria Friedman is the perfect person to rise to the challenge
and succeeds in combining the vulnerable comedy and ‘English’ wit of the stage
character a la Jill Howarth or Jane Horrocks in Don’t Tell
Mama with the sheer power of Liza Minnelli in Mein Herr,
while making the title song something all her own. If you want to have just one
recording then this is overall the best one to go for.
That
said, if you’re keen on Kurt Weill, or From Russia With Love
then you should go for the original Broadway Cast album, because of it
featuring the incomparable Lotte Lenya as Fraulein Schneider. Lotte
Lenya is a hard act to follow, and good though she is, Judi Dench
does not quite manage it. It is a highlight, however, that Judi Dench
gets to duet with the show’s lyricist Fred Ebb, who acquits himself well
enough on Meeskite,
The
original production of Cabaret may have billed Schneider and
Shultz (Lotte Lenya and Jack Gilford) as the stars, but on this
recording it is The M.C., Sally, and the Kit Kat Klub girls who are the stars
of the album. Jonathan Pryce does an excellent job as the M.C., proving
to be well up making his own a role made famous first by Joel Grey and
later by Alan Cummings. As for, the Arts Educational trained, Maria
Friedman the role might have been written for her (although of course it
wasn’t), it suits her so well; in much the same way that the lead on The
Musicals Collection’s Anything Goes suits (another Arts
Educational trained performer) Louise Gold. Indeed the similarity does
not end there, for that CD benefited, as indeed does this, from having the
superb back-up of the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by the ever
wonderful John Owen Edwards.
This
recording of Cabaret also boasts an extraordinary group of Kit Kat Klub Girls to back Maria Friedman,
namely: Louise Gold, Gay Soper, Claire Moore, Jacqueline
Dankworth, Caroline O’Connor and Clare Burt, each of whom is
a notable
All
in all a wonderful studio cast album, with a first rate cast, lead by “the
great and the good” Maria Friedman (as Sheridan Morely is
wont to call her), and a wonderful orchestra, under John Owen-Edwards’s
excellent direction. Definitely well worth having if you want a good recording
of Cabaret.
Links about Cabaret
JAY Records page for this recording: http://www.jayrecords.com/jay/site/pages/recordings/cabaret/recording.htm
About Maria page for Cabaret: http://www.aboutmaria.com/cabaret.html
Joseph Molnar’s review of this
recording: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/jan9926.html
Joseph Molnar’s account of recent
recordings Kander & Ebb musicals: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sound/feb2.html
Cast
Album.org database’s entry for this recording: http://www.castalbums.org/recordings/2904
FYE.Com’s
entry for the album: http://www.fye.com/Cabaret-Front-Page_stcVVproductId1083902VVcatId455366VVviewprod.htm
