Carousel [Prism] (1993)

This album contains recordings by the original Broadway cast of Carousel from 1945, or at least copies of those recordings. In Europe, the copyright on recordings lapses after 50 years, allowing anyone who likes to press up CDs transferred from old records. Prism Leisure, a British budget reissue label, specializes in this practice, and this is their version of Carousel. Of course, a far better quality version of the same recordings has been maintained in print in the U.S. by Decca and later MCA, and those imprints' parent ... Read More

This album contains recordings by the original Broadway cast of Carousel from 1945, or at least copies of those recordings. In Europe, the copyright on recordings lapses after 50 years, allowing anyone who likes to press up CDs transferred from old records. Prism Leisure, a British budget reissue label, specializes in this practice, and this is their version of Carousel. Of course, a far better quality version of the same recordings has been maintained in print in the U.S. by Decca and later MCA, and those imprints' parent company, Universal, continues to claim ownership under American law. That should mean that the Prism disc would not be on sale in America, but it was easily obtainable from U.S. mail-order firms upon release, selling for only about $8. Not surprisingly, the sound is inferior to the American CD, and the skimpy annotations are embarrassingly inept. (Even Oscar Hammerstein II's name is misspelled!) But musical theater buffs may want to seek it out anyway because of the inclusion of recordings made by members of the original London cast in 1950. Iva Withers (a Broadway replacement) and Stephen Douglass (also of the 1947 U.S. tour) may not be as strong as Jan Clayton and John Raitt, but they are worth hearing, both on their own terms and also at the low price. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi Read Less

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