The golden apple

Moross, Jerome.

The golden apple [sound recording] / music by Jerome Moross ; written by John Latouche. - [US] : RCA, 1997 - 1 sound disc (50:49 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm. + booklet.

First opened off-Broadway in 1954, this show was recorded then and remastered for the 1997 re-release. Compact disc plus booklet with programme notes.

[Songs and music, excluding narrations]: Overture - My love is on the way - The heroes come home - It was a glad adventure - Come along boys - It's the going home together - Mother Hare's prophecy - Helen is always willing - The judgement of Paris - Lazy afternoon - The departure for Rhododendron - My picture in the papers - Hector's song - Windflowers - Store-bought suit - Calypso - Scylla and Charybdis - Goona-Goona - Doomed, doomed, doomed - Circe - Ulysses' soliloquy - The sewing bee - The tirade - Finale: Going home together.

Cast includes Priscilla Gillette, Stephen Douglass and Kaye Ballard, directed by Norman Lloyd.

The plot is based on The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, but is transposed to the aftermath of the Spanish-American war (1898). The characters of Helen, Penelope, Ulysses, Paris and Achilles are all in the story, as are the gods and godesses who are townspeople. In this recording the songs and music are interspersed with 12 narrations to tell the story.

09026689342 RCA Victor


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