Eliot...Sylvia - Jim Walton & Carolee Carmello - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - 2003 Concert

Описание: Here is "Eliot...Sylvia" from Cooper Union's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater concert, which took place in The Great Hall on March 7, 2003. The first Ashman & Menken collaboration, the music is by Alan Menken, while the book and lyrics are by Howard Ashman.

The musical is based on the novel "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine" by Kurt Vonnegut.

The cast in this recording includes Jim Walton as Eliot Rosewater and Carolee Carmello as Sylvia Rosewater.

The concert also features Jimmy Roberts, serving as the event's musical director and arranger, on the piano and Mairi Dorman on cello, while Peter Flynn served as director.

In the forward to a never published e-book release of the libretto, which was to be published with the original novel, Menken sums up his thoughts on the musical, writing "ROSEWATWER never had a long run. There never was an original cast album. It was too large for Off-Broadway and too intimate, counter-culture and quirky for the Broadway of 1979. Howard is gone, as is Kurt and Fred [Coffin, the original Eliot Rosewater] and the WPA Theater. But that time will always remain as vital to me as if it was yesterday. New York has changed. Off-Broadway has changed. But somehow the story of Eliot Rosewater and his journey to Rosewater County, Indiana and the heartland of America, all told through the eyes of Kurt Vonnegut and Howard Ashman, remains relevant and important." ("God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," 2013. http://howardashman.com/blog/god-bles...)

Photograph of Cooper Union's Great Hall is by Kristine Paulus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kpaulus/...