Washington University's Performing Arts Department presents The Pirates of Penzance, through October 31. Performances take place at 8 PM Friday and Saturday and at 3 PM Sunday in the Edison Theatre on the Washington University campus. (935-6543 or 534-1111)

Overture

Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Alexander Faris

Sullivan Overtures (CD 1986)

 

Poor Wand'ring One

Valerie Masterson, Royal Philharmonic / Isidore Godfrey

The Pirates of Penzance (CD 1985)

A re-issue of a 1965 recording by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

I am the very model of a modern Major-General

John Reed, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic / Isidore Godfrey

When the foeman bares his steel

Owen Brannigan, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic / Isidore Godfrey

The Holly and the Ivy

Orchestra / Anne Dudley

Ancient/ Modern (CD 1999)

With Trevor Horn and Paul Morley, classically-trained Dudley formed The Art of Noise in 1983. In recent years she has mad a name for herself as a film composer (The Crying Game, American History X, The Full Monty).

A Little Bit in Love

Audra McDonald

Wonderful Town (CD 1999)

A new recording of the overlooked 1953 Bernstein gem (lyrics by Comden and Green), based on the hit play My Sister Eileen, about two sisters from small-town Ohio dealing with life and love in 1930s Greenwich Village.

Wrong Note Rag

Kim Criswell, Audra MacDonald

T-E-A-M (The Baseball Game)

Anthony Rapp and Company

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (OC 1999)

A revival / re-write of the 1967 off-Broadway hit. This seemed an appropriate song for Pennant season.

Amor

Susannah Mars, Bill Wells (piano)

Take Me to the World (CD 1998)

Two cabaret songs by William Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein.

Toothbrush Time

Humphrey Bogart

By Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (not everything they wrote was rock).

*Acronyms and other mysteries defined:
OC: unless otherwise indicated, the Original Cast recording of a Broadway show, along with the date.
OS: unless otherwise indicated, the Original Soundtrack recording of a film, TV show, etc.

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