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ROBERTA [musical show]
- Title
- ROBERTA [musical show]
- Alternate Title
- LOVELY TO LOOK AT
- Opening Date
- November 18, 1933
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- 1933 record by Tamara of orig cast. COND: Leo Reisman. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (78/Bruns 6715, ALB-830, ALB-933, ALB-1123, ALB-1180, ALB-1610, ALB-1743, ALB-1825, ALB-2181)
- 1935 medley by New Mayfair Orch with uncredited vocals. (78/HMV(E) C-2772)
- 1935 radio prod assembled from soundtrack material from the 1935 film prod. Irene Dunne: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "Lovely to Look at" Fred Astaire: "I Won't Dance" Ginger Rogers: "I'll Be Hard to Handle" (Star-Tone 204, with Top Hat)
- 1938 medley by Victor Light Opera Company. COND: Leonard Joy. (ALB-306)
- 1944 studio prod. COND: Harry Sosnik. CAST: Kitty Carlisle, Alfred Drake, Paula Laurence, Kathryn Meisle. (78/Dec album 374; Dec 8007; CD/Dec 440-018-731-2, with The Vagabond King. Incomplete: ALB-801, ALB-1571. Excerpts: Laurence: "Let's Begin" (ALB-1703) Drake: "You're Devastating" Drake, Carlisle, Meisle: "The Touch of Your Hand" Drake, Carlisle: "Lovely to Look at" (ALB-1962).)
- 1949 records by Kathryn Grayson of 1952 film prod (titled "Lovely to Look at"). "Yesterdays" (ALB-364, ALB-1028, ALB-1230, ALB-1977) "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (ALB-328, ALB-364, ALB-886, ALB-1028, ALB-1977)
- 1950 studio prod. COND: Al Goodman. CAST: Ray Charles, Eve Young, Jimmy Carroll, Marion Bell, chorus. (RCA LK-1007)
- 1952 studio prod. MUSIC: Jerome Kern. WORDS: Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields. COND: Lehman Engel. CAST: Joan Roberts, Jack Cassidy, Kaye Ballard, Portia Nelson, Stephen Douglass, Frank Rogier. (Col CL-6220; CD/CBS A-7030; CD/DRG 19073. Excerpt: Cassidy, Ballard: "I Won't Dance" (ALB-1426).)
- 1952 studio prod. ORCH & COND: George Greeley. CAST: Gordon MacRae, Lucille Norman, Anne Triola, chorus. (Cap 10" L-334; ALB-2215.)
- 1953 radio prod. ORCH & COND: Carmen Dragon. CAST: Gordon MacRae, Dorothy Kirsten. (CD/Nostalgia 588, with The Girl from Utah)
- 1961 album. COND: Alan Braden. VOCALS: Kevin Scott, June Bronhill, Maggie Fitzgibbon, Andy Cole, chorus. (CD/Classics for Pleasure(E) 3359802, with Music in the Air & Show Boat.)
- Records by Jerome Kern (composer) & Dorothy Fields (lyricist). Kern, piano: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1940: ALB-869, ALB-2300) (1941: ALB-1857) Fields, vocal: "I Won't Dance" (1972, with Bob Gorman: ALB-1838)
- Records by members of 1935 film cast. Irene Dunne: "Lovely to Look at" (1935: 78/Bruns 7420, ALB-43, ALB-322, ALB-607, ALB-619, ALB-642, ALB-933, ALB-1115, ALB-1290, ALB-1417, ALB-1614, ALB-2300) "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1941: 78/Dec 18201, ALB-66, ALB-109, ALB-607, ALB-1428) Fred Astaire: "I Won't Dance" (1952: ALB-125, ALB-358, ALB-567, ALB-648, ALB-1145) "Lovely to Look at" (1952: ALB-348, ALB-648)
- Soundtrack of 1935 film. COND: Max Steiner. CAST: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Irene Dunne, Candy Candido. (Classic International Filmusicals 3011. Incomplete: ALB-335. Excerpts: Overture (ALB-1428) Astaire, Rogers: "I Won't Dance" (ALB-558, ALB-1258, ALB-1428, ALB-1826, ALB-2300) Astaire, Candido: "Let's Begin" (ALB-1826) Rogers: "I'll Be Hard to Handle" (ALB-1428, ALB-1826) Dunne: "Yesterdays" (ALB-1281).)
- Soundtrack of 1952 film, titled "Lovely to Look At." ORCH: Leo Arnaud. COND: Carmen Dragon. CAST: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton, Marge & Gower Champion, Ann Miller. (CD/Rhino RHM2-7842, with Texas Carnival. Incomplete: CD/Sony AK-47027; MGM 10" 150; CD/MGM(J) VDP-5174, with The Merry Widow & Show Boat; CD/MCA MCAD-5947, with Brigadoon. Excerpts: Grayson: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (ALB-416, ALB-1704, ALB-2247) "Yesterdays" (ALB-975) Miller: "I'll Be Hard to Handle" Grayson, Keel: "The Touch of Your Hand" (ALB-975). See also 19331118h.)
- Studio prod. "Ed Sullivan presents Roberta." No other credits. (National Academy 10)
- Studio prod. ORCH: Henri René. COND: Lehman Engel. CAST: Anna Moffo, Jean Sanders, Evelyn Sachs, Stanley Grover, Charles Green. (Reader's Digest 40-9, with Song of Norway; ALB-1578.)
- Studio prod. ORCH & COND: Alan Braden. CAST: Marion Grimaldi, Andy Cole, Maggie Fitzgibbon, chorus. (World Record Club(E) T-121, with Music in the Air)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19331118
Last Updated: 08-23-2012