Duke: Cabin in the Sky

 
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VERNON DUKE
Duke: Cabin in the Sky
Rosetta le Noire, Ketty Lester / 1963 New York Revival Cast Recording

[ Angel / Broadway Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 17 May 1993

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Cabin in the Sky is a musical with music by Vernon Duke, book by Lynn Root, and lyrics by John Latouche. The musical opened on Broadway in 1940. The show is described as a "parable of Southern Negro Life with echoes of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (which would be turned into the musical Carousel) and Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures." Several songs from the Broadway musical were released as a 3-record shellac set under the title "The Music of Cabin in the Sky featuring Ethel Waters" in 1940.

The musical was very well received. Gerald Bordman wrote "Wisely, everyone involved in the show rejected the easy excesses and crassness so many musicals resorted to. Certainly they avoided turning the evening into a black minstrel show. Throughout the production a tasteful restraint, a sense of what as appropriate to the story, was maintained. This rare display of integrity made Cabin in the Sky an attractive enough evening to keep ticket buyers coming for 20 weeks."

Thomas S. Hischak wrote, "With enthusiastic reviews, an outstanding score, and a powerhouse cast of some of the finest African Americans in the business, it was surprising the musical did not run longer than twenty weeks." (wiki)

Tracks:

1 Wade In The Water 2:07
2 Cabin In The Sky 3:17
3 Make Way 1:12
4 The Man Upstairs 3:05
5 Taking A Chance On Love 4:13
6 Do What You Want To Do 2:59
7 We'll Live All Over Again 1:56
8 Gospel & Great Day 2:11
9 Honey In The Honeycomb 2:08
10 Love Me Tomorrow 3:04
11 Not A Care In The World 2:44
12 Not So Bad To Be Good 2:32
13 Do What You Want To Do (Reprise) 1:54
14 Love Turned The Light Out 3:02
15 Living It Up 2:40
16 Savanna 2:43
17 Cabin In The Sky (Reprise) 1:32