Original Off-Broadway Cast with Replacement Lead (1973)
Recording Type:
Commercial
Origin:
Studio
Material Included:
Songs Only
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Conductor
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fortune teller in upright coffin
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female pirate
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rock singer holding tray of bread
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tallest doctor â?? Selavy
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doctor with most hair
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little girl
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shortest male doctor
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shortest female doctor
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The original LP issue, on United Artists, was missing several numbers and put the individual tracks into a sequence that was notably different from show order. According to the notes accompanying the digital release (available either as a download or on an on-demand basis as a CD), "Due to limitations of space, the original LP from 1973 was incomplete and reshuffled in order to make sense of the chosen tracks." This seems a bit odd in that the playing time of the LP was around 45 minutes and there should not have been a problem including at least a bit more.
Some of the track titles on LP and the CD issues are slightly different (and also different from the titles as they appeared in the playbill for the production). Here is a list of the LP track titles:
Jingle and First Day's Treatment
The More You Get
Money in the Bank
Swinging at the Stock Exchange
Life on the Inside
Second Day's Treatment
I Live By My Wits
Three Menu Songs
Bankrupt Blues
Future for Sale
Strawberry-Blueberry
Let's Hear It for Daddy Moola
Life on the Inside
Third Day's Treatment
Every New Beginning
Poor Boy
Dearest Man
Fourth Day's Treatment
Where You Been Hiding Till Now
He Lived By His Wits
Fireman's Song
Requiem
Fifth Day's Treatment
Life on the Inside
Barry Primus is heard on this recording in the leading role of the patient. He had created the role in the world premiere production at the Lenox Arts Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. He was then unavailable for the role when the Off-Broadway production opened because he was appearing in Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business, but when that production closed quickly, he returned to the role of the patient, replacing Ron Faber, who had opened in the role in the Off-Broadway production.
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