Flowers For Mrs Harris Original Cast Recording

Chichester Festival Theatre cast recording of the hugely acclaimed musical Flowers For Mrs Harris, with a book by Rachel Wagstaff, music and lyrics by Richard Taylor, based on the novel by Paul Gallico.

Flowers For Mrs Harris is the story of Ada Harris, a char-lady in post-war London whose drab life of dusting and scrubbing is transformed when she glimpses a Christian Dior dress in one of her client’s wardrobes and sets her heart on going to Paris to buy one for herself.

The 2018 Chichester Festival production was directed by Daniel Evans, with a cast led by Clare Burt (who won a UK Theatre Award for her performance), Joanna Ridintg and Gary Wilmot, alongside Claire Machin, Louis Maskell, Mark Meadows, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Nicola Sloane, Luke Latchman and Rhona McGregor.

In July 2020, during the global Covid pandemic, the entire cast and orchestra from the 2018 production safely reunited, on the Chichester Festival Theatre stage, to record the album. This highly anticipated two-disc cast recording, with orchestrations by Richard Taylor, conducted by Tom Brady and mixed by Mike Walker, comes complete with a full colour 16 page booklet, including production photographs and synopsis.

ACT ONE

1. All I Ever Needed
2. Lady Dant
3. There Is More To Life
4. Clients #1 (Look At Me)
5. Something To Come Home To
6. Rain On Me
7. Clients #2
8. The Pools Win
9. Mrs Harris Does A Budget
10. Clients #3
11. The Pound Devalues
12. Albert’s Watch
13. End Of Act One

ACT TWO

1. 30, Avenue Montaigne
2. The Dress-Showing
3. She Kissed Me!
4. The Girl In The Magazine
5. Dressmaking
6. Customs (A Fib, Not A Lie)
7. Returning Home/Visiting Pamela
8. 5, Willis Gardens
9. Flowers (Something For You)
10. The Garden Of Eden