TY  - SOUND
AU  - Weill,Kurt
AU  - Anderson,Maxwell
AU  - Mamoulian,Rouben
AU  - Duncan,Todd
AU  - Matthews,Inez
AU  - Guyse,Sheila
AU  - Paton,Alan
TI  - Lost in the stars
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Decca
KW  - Musicals
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Apartheid
N1  - The musical opened on Broadway in 1949. This recording is remastered from the one done in 1949 with the original cast, directed by Rouben Mamoulian; Compact disc; The hills of Ixopo - Thousands of miles - The train to Johannesburg/ Thousands of miles (reprise)/ The search - The little gray house - Who'll buy/ Trouble man - Murder in Parkwold/Fear - Lost in the stars - O Tixo, Tixo, help me - Stay well - Cry, the beloved country - Big mole/Chapel scene - A bird of passage/ Thousands of miles (reprise); The plot is based on Alan Paton's Cry the beloved country; The cast includes Todd Duncan, Inez Matthews and Sheila Guyse
N2  - The musical is set in South Africa in the 1940s during the years of apartheid. A young black man shoots a white man in the confusion of an attempted burglary
ER  -