Kean: Original Broadway Cast Recording Kean: Original Broadway Cast Recording CD

Deluxe two CD edition. Stage Door are pleased to present this deluxe edition of the Kean Original Broadway Cast album. Across two CDs, this definitive set features a new digital remaster of the Original Broadway Cast Recording accompanied by the previously unreleased studio and composer demos of the score (including several cut songs). The album boasts a generous selection of "pop" cover recordings performed by vocalists including Judy Garland, Richard Hayes and James Shigeta. The lavish set also includes an instrumental stereo album of the score recorded by Robert Mersey and His Orchestra, which makes it's debut on CD. Written as a star vehicle for Alfred Drake by Robert Wright and George Forrest (Kismet, Song Of Norway), Kean opened at the Broadway Theatre on November 2nd 1961, running for 92 performances. The production, directed and choreographed by Jack Cole, also starred Lee Venora, Joan Weldon, Oliver Gray and Patricia Cutts. For his performance in Kean, Drake was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and the show was nominated for Best Conductor and Musical Director. The musical centers on Edmund Kean, the "king" of the London stage in the early 19th Century. Considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation, Kean was as infamous for his offstage antics as his consummate stage performances. Trouble emerges as Kean desperately tries to juggle the two women in his life - the Danish Ambassador's wife, Elena, and a young aspiring actress, Anna. Complications ensue as Kean works to perfect his art while keeping his paramours from finding out about each other. The Deluxe Edition 'Kean' Original Broadway Cast Recording is strictly limited to 500 units.

1. Overture/Penny Plain, Twopence Colored - Alfred DeSio 2. Man and Shadow/Mayfair Affair - Alfred Drake, Joan Weldon, Patricia Cutts, Ensemble 3. Sweet Danger - Joan Weldon, Alfred Drake 4. Queue at Drury Lane/King of London - Christopher Hewett, Robert Penn, Arthur Rubin, Ensemble 5. To Look Upon My Love - Alfred Drake, Truman Smith 6. Let's Improvise - Alfred Drake, Lee Venora 7. Elena - Alfred Drake, Arthur Rubin, Ensemble 8. The Fog and the Grog - Christopher Hewett, Robert Penn, Arthur Rubin, Alfred Drake, Ensemble 9. Civilized People - Alfred Drake, Lee Venora, Joan Weldon 10. Service for Service - Joan Weldon, Alfred Drake 11. Willow, Willow, Willow - Lee Venora 12. Chime In! - Alfred DeSio, Christopher Hewett, Robert Penn, Arthur Rubin, Ensemble 13. Swept Away - Joan Weldon, Alfred Drake 14. Apology? - Alfred Drake 15. The Fog and the Grog (Demo) - Studio Demo Cast 16. Elena (Demo) - Studio Demo Cast 17. To Look Upon My Love (Demo) - Studio Demo Cast 18. Inevitable (Demo) - Studio Demo Cast 19. Penny Plain, Twopence Colored (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest 20. Sweet Danger (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest 21. Civilized People (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest 22. Swept Away (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest 23. King of London - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 24. Sweet Danger - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 25. To Look Upon My Love - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 26. Elena - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 27. Social Whirl - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 28. Inevitable - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 29. The Fog and the Grog - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 30. Civilzed People - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 31. Willow, Willow, Willow - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 32. Swept Away - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 33. Chime In! - Robert Mersey and His Orchestra 34. Sweet Danger - Judy Garland 35. To Look Upon My Love - Richard Hayes 36. The Fog and the Grog - Mitch Miller and His Sing Along Gang 37. Chime In! - The Three Young Men (from Montana) 38. To Look Upon My Love - James Shigeta 39. To Look Upon My Love - Living Voices 40. Inevitable - Living Voices 41. Ado for Kean/Who Dear? (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest Disorder And Genius (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest 42. Shadow Play (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest 43. Inevitable (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest 44. Amsterdam (Demo) - Robert Wright, George Forrest