CDs with: Shevelove, Burt

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum : original Broadway cast / music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; [book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart].

Overture (3:13) -- Comedy tonight (4:59) -- Love, I hear (2:51) -- Free (3:35) -- Lovely (3:07) -- Pretty little picture (2:53) -- Everybody ought to have a maid (3:50) -- I'm calm (2:51) -- Impossible (2:33) -- Bring me my bride (3:21) -- That dirty old man (2:14) -- That'll show him (1:48) -- Lovely (reprise) (2:55) -- Funeral sequence (2:05) -- Finale (1:22).

CD 698

The frogs / [a comedy written in 405 B.C. by Aristophanes ; freely adapted by Burt Shevelove ; even more freely adapted by Nathan Lane ; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; orchestrations, Jonathan Tunick].

Opening fanfare -- Invocation and instructions to the audience -- "It is time we start our journey" -- I love to travel -- Dress big -- I love to travel (reprise) -- All aboard -- On the River Styx -- Ariadne -- The frogs -- Hymn to Dionysos -- Hades -- It's only a play -- Shaw -- The contest -- Fear no more -- All aboard (reprise) -- Hymn to Dionysos (reprise) -- Final instructions to the audience.

CD 3397