Soundtrack - Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You: Mr. Rosewater (Premiere Cast Recording) [CD]
Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You: Mr. Rosewater (Premiere Cast Recording)
Soundtrack
CD Rel Date: 1987-07-28
Back before their work on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid, the songwriting duo Howard Ashman and Alan Menken collaborated on a far more atypical work. Their first musical in 1979 was an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. It's the story of a millionaire with a conscience, who decides to give away his fortune to the needy inhabitants of a small town of Rosewater, Indiana. His generosity not only attracts the poor and forgotten, but also invariably, the greedy and the conniving. The CD package includes a 28-page full-color booklet with complete lyrics, production photos, and essays by director Michael Mayer and Thomas Schumacher, President of the Disney Theatrical Group.
Tracklist:
- Overture
- The Rosewater Foundation
- The Rosewater Foundation (Reprise)
- Dear Ophelia
- Thank God for the Volunteer Fire Brigade
- Mushari's Waltz (Magical Moment)
- Thirty Miles from the Banks of the Ohio / Look Who's Here
- Cheese Nips
- The Rosewater Foundation (Reprise II) 1
- Since You Came to This Town 1
- A Poem By William Blake 1
- The Rhode Island Tango 1
- Eliot / Sylvia 1
- Plain Clean Average Americans 1
- A Firestorm Consuming Indianapolis 1
- Dear Ophelia (Reprise) 1
- I, Eliot Rosewater