Opportunity > Original Cast
Show Details
- Show
- Opportunity
- Music
- Sonny Kippe (3)
- Lyrics
- Joey Leroy
- Book
- Roy Lampe
Recording Details
- Date
- 1967
- Type
- Noncommercial Audio / Industrial Musical
- Method
- Studio
- Language
- English
- Location
- US / FL / Hollywood
- Music
- Leslie Bricusse (192), Stephen Sondheim (702), Jule Styne (541)
- Producer
- Sonny Kippe (3)
- Conductor
- Sonny Kippe (3)
- Music Director
- Fred Barovick
- Performer
- Tom Dillon, Joe Lautner (5), Carol Manning, Kathy Preston (2)
- Notes
- Performed at the company’s 1967 sales convention at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. Like the other musical written for Monroe, lavish production values and corporate evangelism are the main features of this recording. However, this time around the authors tended to rely more on changing the words to existing songs rather than composing original tunes. For example, lyricist Joey Leroy rewrote the lyrics to the songs ‘Some People’ and ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses’ from the musical Gypsy, and re-purposed them as ‘Some Salesmen‘ and ‘580 - 150 – 570‘. ‘Comedy Tonight‘ from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum becomes ‘Monroe Means Action’, and ‘The Colonel Bogey March’ does double duty as ‘Monroe‘.
- Shortcode
- [r10019]
Releases
- Format
- LP
- Label
- Monroe / Litton
- Released
- 1967
- Search
- # Tracks
- 12
- Lists
- 14 collectors / 14 wish lists
- Shortcode
- [rl14079]
1. Monroe Overture
2. Opportunity
3. Greetings
4. Some Salesmen
5. Coffee Break
6. Monroe Means Action
7. Breakthrough
8. 580 - 150 - 570
9. We’re On Our Way
10. Monroe
11. 770
12. Let’s Move With Monroe
2. Opportunity
3. Greetings
4. Some Salesmen
5. Coffee Break
6. Monroe Means Action
7. Breakthrough
8. 580 - 150 - 570
9. We’re On Our Way
10. Monroe
11. 770
12. Let’s Move With Monroe