Track Listing

1. Prelude
2. Me and My Town - Angela Lansbury
3. Miracle Song - Angela Lansbury
4. There Won't Be Trumpets - Lee Remick
5. Simple - Angela Lansbury
6. Come Play Wiz Me - Lee Remick & Harry Guardino
7. Anyone Can Whistle - Lee Remick
8. A Parade in Town - Angela Lansbury & ensemble
9. Everybody Says Don't - Harry Guardino
10. I've Got You To Lean On - Angela Lansbury
11. See What It Gets You - Lee Remick
12. The Cookie Chase
13. With So Little to Be Sure Of - Lee Remick & Harry Guardino
14. I'm Like the Bluebird (bonus) - Stephen Sondheim, piano & vocals (previously unreleased demo)
15. The Lame, the Halt, and the Blind (bonus) - Stephen Sondheim, piano & vocals (previously unreleased demo)
16. Come Play Wiz Me (bonus) - Stephen Sondheim, piano & vocals (previously unreleased demo)
17. Anyone Can Whistle (bonus) - Stephen Sondheim, piano & vocals (previously unreleased demo)
18. With So Little to Be Sure Of (bonus) - Stephen Sondheim, piano & vocals (previously unreleased demo)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9757 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2003-05-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.com
Give credit (and thanks) to Goddard Lieberson and Columbia Records for preserving the original cast recording of Anyone Can Whistle despite a blink-and-you-missed-it run of nine performances in 1964. That's often blamed on the challenging and confusing book, which features a Mayoress (Angela Lansbury) whose town is economically depressed until the fortuitous arrival of an apparent miracle. Unfortunately, the resulting influx of tourists clashes with 49 patients (known as "cookies") from a local mental hospital led by nurse Fay Apple (Lee Remick) when a traveling physician named Hapgood (Harry Guardino) arrives to sort things out. The score is fascinating early Stephen Sondheim and includes numerous songs that have become staples of Sondheim song collections: "There Won't Be Trumpets," the gentle title tune, "A Parade in Town," "Everybody Says Don't," and "With So Little to Be Sure Of." Almost exactly 31 years later, Anyone Can Whistle was recorded as a gala benefit concert, with 20 additional minutes of music and dialogue, an all-star cast including Lansbury and Bernadette Peters, and the excitement of a live performance. For heart, though, it still doesn't measure up to the original cast recording. --David Horiuchi