His Monkey Wife / Selections / O.L.C. His Monkey Wife / Selections / O.L.C. CD

UK release containing Sandy Wilson's His Monkey Wife(1971) and Aladdin (1979). The CD release continues Stage Door's London cast album series and commitment to preserve 'lost' British theatre scores of the past 50 years. In late 1970, noted British theater composer Sandy Wilson (The Boy Friend, Valmouth) was commissioned to write a new musical for the Hampstead Theatre Club's 1971/1972 Christmas Season. The subject Wilson chose was John Collier's novel His Monkey Wife (or, Married to a Chimp) and the new musical His Monkey Wife opened on December 20th 1971, running for 28 performances. His Monkey Wife is accompanied with selections from Sandy Wilson's Aladdin, a production which was commissioned by the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 1979, and conceived by Wilson as a musical adaptation of the classic Arabian Nights Tale. The musical featured an all-star cast including Elisabeth Welch, Christine McKenna, Belinda Lang, Joe Melia and Aubrey Woods.

1. Emily's Waltz - Robert Swann 2. Home and Beauty and You - Robert Swann 3. Marriage - Myvanwy Jenn, Bridget Armstrong 4. In Boboma Tonight - Jeffry Wickham, Sally Mates 5. Haverstock Hill - Bridget Armstrong, Myvanwy Jenn, Roland Curram 6. Don't Rush Me - Bridget Armstrong, Robert Swann 7. Who Is She? - Roland Curram 8. Dear Human Race - June Ritchie, Sally Mates 9. Leave It All to Smithers - Bridget Armstrong, Company 10. Mad About Your Mind - Jeffry Wickham, Bridget Armstrong 11. His Monkey Wife - Bridget Armstrong, Company 12. A Girl Like You - Jeffry Wickham 13. Doing the Chimpanzee - Company 14. Live Like the Blessed Angels - Robert Swann 15. Reprise: His Monkey Wife - Robert Swann 16. Reprise: Who Is She? - Company 17. Aladdin - the Spirits 18. Hang-Chow - Richard Freeman, Joe Melia, Aladdin's Companions 19. Tuang Kee Po - Joe Melia 20. It Is Written in the Sands - Elisabeth Welch 21. There and Then - Richard Freeman, Christine McKenna 22. Song of the Genie of the Ring - Belinda Lang 23. Song of the Genie of the Lamp - Martin McEvoy 24. Chopsticks - Joe Melia, Christine McKenna, Judy Hopton, Pauline Lewis 25. All I Did - Richard Freeman, Arthur Kohn 26. Wicked - Aubrey Woods 27. Life in the Laundry - Joe Melia 28. Give Him the Old Kung Fu - Elisabeth Welch, Company 29. Reprise: Aladdin - Company