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scenery BILL HOFFMAN costumes LINDSAY DAVIS lighting PHIL MONAT sound GARY STOCKER MUSICAL DIRECTION & VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS DAVID LOUD ORCHESTRATIONS DAVID KRANE casting JOSEPH ABALDO production stage manager MICHAEL A. CLARKE

OREOG RAPHY BY R E C T E D

SUSAN STROMAN SCOTT ELLIS PRODUCED FOR RECORDS BY JAY DAVID SAKS

T The World Goes ’Round 4:07 Ell Marry Me/A Quiet Thing 4:01 y 1 Coffee in a Cardboard Cup 2:46 \wi Kiss of the Spiderwoman 3:00 3_ 1 Colored Lights 5:40 Oil The Grass is Always Greener 5:53

_4_ 1 Sara Lee 2:35 0 The World Goes ’Round (reprise)/ I 1 Arthur in the Afternoon 3:56 We Can Make It/Maybe This Time 5:30 6_ The World Goes ’Round (reprise)/My Coloring Book 3:33 EH Isn’t This Better?/Trio 4:53 7_ 1 Don’t Remember You/Sometimes a Day Goes By 4:42 E3 The World Goes ’Round (reprise)/ T 1 All That Jazz 3:44 Money, Money 2:37

Mr. Cellophane 3:44 EH Cabaret 3:22 10 There Goes the Ball Game/How Lucky Can You Get 5:23 ES Theme from ‘New York, New York’

The World Goes ’Round (reprise) 3:20

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Jim Walton

Scenic Design by Bill Hoffman

Karen Mason

R. TYLER GATCHELL, JR. PETER NEUFELD PATRICK J. PATEK GENER. KORF IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE McCARTER THEATRE

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AND THE WORLD GOES

’ROUND THE SONGS OF KANDER & EBB

MUSIC BY LYRICS BY

JOHNKANDER FREDEBB

SCOTT ELLIS

CONCEIVED BY

SUSAN DAVID STROMAN THOMPSON

BOB CUCCIOLI

KAREN MASON

THE COMPANY

BRENDA JIM PRESSLEY WALTON

KAREN ZIEMBA

SCENERY

BILL HOFFMAN

COSTUMES LIGHTING SOUND

LINDSAY W. PHIL GARY DAVIS MONAT STOCKER

MUSICAL DIRECTION VOCAL 4 DANCE ARRANGEMENTS ORCHESTRATIONS CASTING PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

DAVID DAVID JOSEPH MICHAEL A. LOUD KRANE ABALDO CLARKE

CHOREOGRAPHY BY

SUSAN STROMAN

SCOTT ELLIS THIS PRODUCTION HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY GRANTS TO THE MCCARTER THEATRE BY

THE STEPHEN & MARY BIRCH FOUNDATION, INC. AND THE BLANCHE & IRVING LAURIE FOUNDATION, INC.

PRODUCED FOR RECORDS BY

JAY DAVID SAKS

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Karen Ziemba 1

“The Grass is Always Greener”

Brenda Pressley

“Arthur in the Afternoon”

“Coffee in a Cardboard Cup”

0 The World Goes’Round New York, New York

Brenda Pressley 4:07

0 Coffee in a Cardboard Cup 70, Girls, 70

All 2:46

0 Colored Lights The Rink

Karen Mason 5:40

0 Sara Lee Jim Walton, Ladies 2:35

0 Arthur in the Afternoon The Act

Karen Ziemba 3:56

0 The World Goes’Round (reprise) My Coloring Book

Karen Mason Brenda Pressley

3:33

0 1 Don’t Remember You The Happy Time Sometimes A Day Goes By Woman of the Year

Bob Cuccioli

Jim Walton

4:42

0 All That Jazz Chicago

Karen Ziemba, Jim Walton, Bob Cuccioli

3:44

0 Mr. Cellophane Chicago

Jim Walton 3:44

0 ThereGoestheBallGame New York, New York How Lucky Can You Get Funny Lady

Ladies

Karen Mason

5:23

0 Marry Me The Rink A Quiet Thing

Jim Walton

Karen Ziemba

4:01

Flora, the Red Menace

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0 Kiss of the Spider Woman Bob Cuccioli 3:00 Kiss of the Spider Woman

0 The Grass is Always Greener Brenda Pressley, 5:53 Woman of the Year Karen Mason

0 The World Goes’Round (reprise) Jim Walton 5:30 We Can Make It Bob Cuccioli The Rink Maybe ThisTime Brenda Pressley Cabaret (the movie)

0 Isn’t This Better? Karen Mason 4:53 Funny Lady Trio Bob Cuccioli,

Brenda Pressley, Karen Mason

0 The World Goes’Round (reprise) Karen Ziemba 2:37 Money, Money All Cabaret (the movie)

0 Cabaret All 3:22 Cabaret

0 Theme from‘New York, New York’ All 3:20 The World Goes ’Round (reprise) New York, New York

Recorded August 25-27,1991 in BMG Studio C, New York City

And the World Goes 'Round The Songs of Kander and Ebb opened on March 18,1991 at the Westside Theatre, New York City.

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collaborators: (ke-LAB'-e-ra-ters) n. Those who work together in a joint endeavor (such as lyricists and composers who work as partners to create songs). See AND THE WORLD GOES ’ROUND*

* Rehearsals had been under way for nearly a month. In another week, we’d be in the Westside Theatre on West 43rd Street. On this particular day, John and Fred were coming to the studio. Of course, their appearance wasn’t at all unusual. They were one of us. Even so, every few days we sat them down and showed them our progress. We wanted to make sure our interpretation of the number matched their own interpretation. Composers and lyricists are notorious for wanting their songs sung in a very particular way. For some reason, they think they know how a song is intended to sound.

We were slightly apprehensive because we had been tinkering with one of their best-known songs, Cabaret. We had changed not only the melody but the words as well. Our intention, unlike our intention for most of the other songs in the show, was to find a new way to present the song: to make it different—fresh—and as exciting as it must have been the first time it was ever performed. Now it was time to see if we had succeeded.

John and Fred arrived. The performers stood around the piano and sang David Loud’s new arrangement. When they had finished, a few moments passed. Nothing. Maybe this time we had gone too far. Finally, Fred broke the silence and said with a broad smile, “Well, you made the old turkey gobble again.”

Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman and I began working on And the World Goes ’Round just after finishing the New York revival of Kander and Ebb’s Flora, the Red Menace. The collaboration had been so rewarding that we were determined to work with John and Fred again. When the opportunity arose to create a revue of their material for Olympia Dukakis’ Whole Theater in the summer of 1989, we grabbed it. And went to work.

Amassing material from twenty-six years of collaboration was quite a challenge—particularly when they have written so much show-stopping

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music. We wanted to create a show that would give the audience a glimpse into the musical world of Kander and Ebb.

Our goal was to balance the standards like Cabaret, Maybe This Time, and the Theme from ‘New York, New York’ with other material perhaps not as well known. We wanted songs from the early days of their collabora¬ tion (Sara Lee). Songs most recently written (Kiss of the Spiderwoman). Songs that are personal favorites (John/A Quiet Thing, Fred/The World Goes ’Round). Songs that are quintessential Kander and Ebb (The Grass is Always Greener). Songs that aren’t heard often enough (Sometimes a Day Goes By and I Don’t Remember You). Songs you’re surprised to learn they wrote (My Coloring Book).

We listened to their music. Categorized numbers. Paired songs. Devel¬ oped sequences. Then began the long poker game of selecting material for an evening of music that would be a seamless, uninterrupted roller-coaster ride from beginning to end. With the invaluable help of David Loud, David Crane and a crackerjack team of designers, we went to work.

The real work, however, began in 1963 when John and Fred began their own collaboration. Paired up by their publisher, Tommy Valando, John and Fred joined forces and wrote their first song—My Coloring Book. Taking its success as a good omen, they began their first Broadway show Flora, the Red Menace, which was quickly followed by Cabaret, The Happy Time, Zorba, 70, Girls, 70, Chicago, The Act, Woman of the Year, The Rink, and Kiss of the Spiderwoman—plus the movie scores for such films as Cabaret, Funny Lady, and New York, New York.

Twenty six years later, they are still working together...still collaborat¬ ing... still friends... and still excited about all the things possible in the world of the theater. They are as different from one another as they can possibly be. Fred was born in New York City, John in Kansas City. John likes the country; Fred wouldn’t be caught dead outside the city. John loves the opera; Fred prefers a good game of tennis. Their differences, however, are their strengths. And the success of their collaboration is apparent in the wealth of material they have produced.

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That spirit of collaboration has been part of everything that has gone into And The World Goes ’Round, especially on the part of our ensemble of performers. Every actor contributed something unique—something spe¬ cial—to the show. Big things. Little things. Like Jim Walton’s superb rag¬ time piano playing in All That Jazz and Theme from ‘New York, New York’. Karen Ziemba’s scorching sultriness as she flips her garter into the audience in the final moments of All That Jazz. Bob Cuccioli’s powerful intensity in Kiss of the Spiderwoman as he throws his arms into the air on the song’s last note. Karen Mason’s chilling look of despair when she finds the irony in How Lucky Can You Get. And Brenda Pressley’s million-dollar deadpan as she sings ‘What’s so wonderful?’ in The Grass is Always Greener.

Nowhere was this collaborative spirit more evident than during one of the last previews before opening night. It was just after midnight. The lobby was filled with an odd lot of people working on the show, all trying to solve the problem at hand: the Theme from ‘New York, New York’—the ultimate finale—wasn’t working. This ubiquitous anthem seemed out of place. The song was so familiar, you could hear it in a foreign language and still know every word. We needed to find a way to make people listen to the song again. And that’s when the idea struck. Why not actually sing it in a foreign language?

Without the safety net of rehearsals, the change went into the show cold. The cast learned the new lyrics. (They’d already learned how to skate and play the banjo; a little Berlitz was a breeze.) To say the least, we were apprehensive about John and Fred’s reaction. It was a little bit like redesign¬ ing the Statue of Liberty and having the nerve to say it shouldn’t be Bartoldi’s mother, but yours. But as this kind of theater story must always end, the next night the number worked perfectly. The audience cheered. To quote Fred, the old turkey gobbled again. After three years of collaboration, the show was finished. Our job was completed. The world could go ’round. And, with any luck, would continue to go ’round...and ’round...and ’round.

—David Thompson

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Recording Engineers: James Nichols, Paul Goodman Technical Engineering: Bill Allen, Major Little

Post Production Editing & Mixing Engineer: Ken Hahn, Sync Sound Additional Post Production Engineers: David Jaunai Production Associate: Regina Elliott

Orchestra Personnel: David Loud Musical Director, Piano Stephen Milbank Assistant Conductor, Synthesizer Dennis Anderson, Mort Silver* Woodwinds David Brown, David Gale* Trumpets Jack Gale* Trombone Charles McCracken* Cello James Musto Drums, Percussion Ronald Raffio Bass, Tuba Scott Kuney* Guitar, Banjo Seymour Red Press Orchestra Contractor

*Additional Personnel for Recording

Musical Preparation: Chelsea Music Service Evan Morris/Bob Holloway

Press Representative: Philip Rinaldi Publicity/Public Relations Company Manager: Ron Gubin

Album Art Direction: J.J. Stelmach Photos: Joan Marcus Show Logo: Jim Kendrick

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Back cover photo: Left to right: Brenda Pressley, Jim Walton, Fred Ebb, Karen Mason,

Bob Cuccioli, John Kander, Karen Ziemba

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0 The World Goes ’Round 0 Coffee in a Cardboard Cup 0 Colored Lights 0 Sara Lee 0 Arthur in the Afternoon 0 The World Goes ’Round (reprise)/IVIy Coloring Book

0 I Don’t Remember You/Sometimes A Day Goes By 0 All That Jazz 0 Mr. Cellophane 0 There Goes the Ball Game/How Lucky Can

You Get 0 Marry Me/A Quiet Thing 0 Kiss of the Spider Woman 0 The Grass is Always Greener 0 The World Goes ’Round (reprise)/

We Can Make It/Maybe This Time 0 Isn’t This Better?/Trio 0 The World Goes ’Round (reprise)/

Money, Money 0 Cabaret 0 Theme from ‘New York, New York7

The World Goes ’Round (reprise)