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Author Wright, Robert, 1914-2005.

Title Kismet : original Broadway cast recording / [with music from Alexander Borodin ; musical adaptation & lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest ; book by Charles Lederer & Luther Davis, based on the play by Edward Knoblock].

Publication Info. New York, NY : Masterworks Broadway, [2009]

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 Talbott Media  CD 8820    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Talbott Media  CD 8820  Booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 audio disc (54 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 005400
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Performer Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Kiley, Henry Calvin, Joan Diener; with supporting singers and orchestra; Louis Adrian, conductor.
Event Recorded Dec. 6, 1953.
Note Originally released Dec. 1953 as Columbia ML 4850.
Compact disc.
Program notes and synopsis by Didier C. Deutsch and original liner notes by George Dale (11 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Contents Overture : Sands of time -- Rhymes have I -- Fate -- Bazaar of the caravans -- Not since Ninevah -- Baubles, bangles, and beads -- Stranger in paradise -- He's in love! -- Gesticulate -- Night of my nights -- Was I Wazir? -- Rahadlakum -- And this is my beloved -- Olive tree -- Zubbediya, Samahris' dance -- Finale : Sands of time -- Bonus tracks, previously unreleased from the CBS Radio production, Stage struck, hosted by Mike Wallace, broadcast on December 18, 1953. In the studio (3:14) ; Interviews with Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, and George Forrest (2:42).
Genre/Form Musicals.
Musicals.
Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Added Author Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich, 1833-1887.
Forrest, George, 1915-1999.
Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976, librettist.
Davis, Luther, librettist.
Drake, Alfred, 1914-1992, performer.
Morrow, Doretta, performer.
Kiley, Richard, performer.
Calvin, Henry, 1918-1975, performer.
Diener, Joan, performer.
Adrian, Louis, conductor.
Knoblock, Edward, 1874-1945. Kismet.
Note Container title: Charles Lederer presents Alfred Drake in Edwin Lester's production of Kismet : original Broadway cast : a musical Arabian night
Standard No. 886975620227
Music No. 88697 56202 2 Masterworks Broadway
ML 4850 Columbia