Track Listing

1. Busker Alley/Act 1. Opening
2. Busker Alley/Act 1. Blow Us a Kiss
3. Busker Alley/Act 1. Hula Love Song
4. Busker Alley/Act 1. Never Trust a Lady
5. Busker Alley/Act 1. When Do I Get Mine?
6. Busker Alley/Act 1. Strays
7. Busker Alley/Act 1. Mates
8. Busker Alley/Act 1. What to Do with 'er?
9. Busker Alley/Act 1. He Has a Way
10. Busker Alley/Act 1. Busker Medley. Moonlight in Brighton/Crazy Happy Te
11. Busker Alley/Act 1. He Has a Way/She Has a Way
12. Busker Alley/Act 1. Busker Alley
13. Busker Alley/Act 1. When Do I Get Mine? (Reprise)
14. Busker Alley/Act 1. How Long Have I Loved Libby?
15. Busker Alley/Act 1. Baby Me
16. Busker Alley/Act 1. How Long Have I Loved Libby? (Reprise)
17. Busker Alley/Act 2. Ordinary Couple/I'm on the Inside
18. Busker Alley/Act 2. Tin Whistle Tune
19. Busker Alley/Act 2. Mates (Reprise)
20. Busker Alley/Act 2. The "New Show" Audition. All Around the Town/Beauti
21. Busker Alley/Act 2. Where the 'ell Is 'ome?
22. Busker Alley/Act 2. Where Are the Faces?
23. Busker Alley/Act 2. Paddle Your Own Canoe
24. Busker Alley/Act 2. Charlie the Busker
25. Busker Alley/Act 2. Epilogue
26. Busker Alley/Act 2. He Had a Way

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #112764 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Album Description
Original cast recording of the 2006 New York premiere all-star performance starring Jim Dale and Glenn Close as well as Broadway stars Noah Racey, Jessica Grove, George S. Irving, Anne Rogers, and more.

This recording reunites Jim Dale and Glenn Close, who originally starred opposite each other in the Broadway smash Barnum. Busker Alley is the latest from Richard and Robert Sherman, who have a new production due on Broadway in 2008!

Customer Reviews

The Sherman Boys 'Have A Way'!
Hurray for everybody who made this production and subsequent recording happen. I'm delighted to have The Sherman Brothers' marvelous score (legitimately) recorded. Previously, we only had poorer quality bootlegs to listen to, but now we have an in-studio recording. I was expecting this to be a live recording of the one-night-only concert event and was very pleasantly surprised to find that it's a studio recording. Jim Dale is always wonderful, and he's certainly much better suited to play Charlie the Busker than his predecessor was.

It's interesting to hear the show and score restored to what must have been closer to the original vision (before it became a big star vehicle). It feels more balanced now and I feel like I hate the character of Libby less than I did before.

Reuniting (sort of) Jim Dale and Glen Close was a brilliant bit of casting on Tony Walton's part. The entire cast is topnotch and deserving of kudos. I do miss the fuller orchestrations, but this is a minor quibble. (And nobody sings "Strays" as well as Richard Sherman does.)

Thanks to everybody who brought this show out of the shadows. Five stars. Hats off to you! Let's hope for a full scale Broadway version starring Jim Dale soon!

Charm on plastic
I'm glad that the York Theatre Company resurrected this show from its ill-fated out-of-town tryout. The score, though not as memorable as the Sherman Brothers' "Mary Poppins," certainly is as good a period piece as their 1970s Andrews Sisters tribute "Over Here." The lyrics are sharp, and the music, as my kids point out, is "catchy." But more to the point is the wonderful vocal performance of Jim Dale, who brings a great deal of intelligence, grace and not a little bitterness to the role of Charlie Baxter. I'd love to see him do it in person. Barnum (1980 Original Broadway Cast)

Worth the wait!
This show--which was almost lost when Tommy Tune broke his leg--has found a new life with this wonderful recording. Jim Dale is as perfect for this role as Tommy Tune was miscast. Enjoy this wonderful and touching recording until you can see the show itself when it makes its long overdue Broadway debut in 2008.