The Golden Apple Broadway cast CD

When it premiered in 1954, composer Jerome Moross and librettist John Latouche's The Golden Apple was hailed as "the most original musical since Oklahoma!" (The Washington Post), "the best thing that has happened in and to the theatre in a very long time" (New York Daily News), and "a magnificent achievement. A sensational success. The most imaginative work of its kind" (New York Daily Mirror). It's blend of American folklore and Greek myth, popular entertainment and high art, and musical comedy and operatic drama "stood Manhattan on its ear," winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle prize for Best Musical (the first Off-Broadway show to do so) and spawning the standard "Lazy Afternoon." Yet, sadly, this 135-minute through-sung musical was preserved only in a 48-minute LP, and after a short-lived transfer to Broadway, THE GOLDEN APPLE all but slipped into obscurity. In November of 2014, the Lyric Stage of Irving, Texas, mounted a fully-staged revival of The Golden Apple, featuring an orchestra of 38 and a 43-member cast, and PS Classics was there to preserve the score in its entirety.
Tracklist
Disc One:_x000D_ol_x000D_li Overture/li_x000D_li Nothing Ever Happens in Angel's Roost/li_x000D_li Angel's Roost Has Its Situation/li_x000D_li Mother Hare's Seance/li_x000D_li My Love Is on the Way/li_x000D_li The Heroes Come Home/li_x000D_li It Was a Glad Adventure/li_x000D_li Come Along Boys/li_x000D_li It's the Going Home Together/li_x000D_li Mother Hare's Prophecy/li_x000D_li Good Is a Word That Fools Believe/li_x000D_li It's the Going Home Together (Continuation)/li_x000D_li Helen Is Always Willing/li_x000D_li The Arrival of Paris/li_x000D_li Let's Pay a Visit/li_x000D_li The Picnic Table/li_x000D_li Mother Hare's Return/li_x000D_li An Impartial Judge/li_x000D_li The Judgment of Paris/li_x000D_li If You Select My Angel Food/li_x000D_li I'll Teach You/li_x000D_li The Loveliest Things in Life/li_x000D_li It's a Fraud/li_x000D_li Paris Visits Helen/li_x000D_li Lazy Afternoon/li_x000D_li The Departure for Rhododendron/li_x000D_/ol_x000D_Disc Two:_x000D_ol_x000D_li My Picture in the Papers/li_x000D_li Plumes on Her Hat/li_x000D_li Form a Committee/li_x000D_li The Prize Fight/li_x000D_li Let's Go Home/li_x000D_li Hector's Song/li_x000D_li A Good Girl/li_x000D_li Windflowers/li_x000D_li Store-Bought Suit/li_x000D_li Hurry! Hurry!/li_x000D_li Calypso/li_x000D_li Paradise Alley/li_x000D_li Scylla and Charybdis/li_x000D_li A Carefree Diversion/li_x000D_li Goona-Goona/li_x000D_li One Hell of a Bender/li_x000D_li Doomed, Doomed, Doomed/li_x000D_li Enough is Enough!/li_x000D_li Circe/li_x000D_li Ulysses' Soliloquy/li_x000D_li Busy Little Sewing Bee/li_x000D_li Penelope's Tirade/li_x000D_li We've Just Begun/li_x000D_/ol