Original London Cast: Nine, 2CD

Nine is a musical, initially created and written by Maury Yeston as a class-project in Lehman Engel's BMI Music Theatre Workshop in 1973. It was later developed with a book by Mario Fratti, and then again with a book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. The story is based also on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8½. It focuses on film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice.

 

The original Broadway production opened in 1982 and ran for 729 performances, starring Raul Julia. The musical won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and has enjoyed a number of revivals.

 

TRACK LISTING:

 

Overture - Company
Spa Music - Jonathan Pryce, Ann Crumb, Sarah Payne, Kate Copstick, Chorus
Not Since Chaplin - Jonathan Pryce, Ann Crumb, Liliane Montevecchi, Elaine Paige, Becky Norman, Chorus
Guido's Song - Jonathan Pryce, Company
The Germans At The Spa - Meg Johnson, Company
Reporter's Return - Ann Crumb, Kate Copstick, Girls
My Husband Makes Movies - Ann Crumb
A Call From The Vatican - Becky Norman, Jonathan Pryce
Western Di Guido / The Bible / Documentary - Jonathan Pryce, Ann Crumb, Company
Only With You - Jonathan Pryce, Ann Crumb, Becky Norman
The Script - Jonathan Pryce, Liliane Montevecchi, Anita Dobson
Folies Bergeres - Liliane Montevecchi, Anita Dobson, Chorus
Nine - Eileen Page, Fiona O'Neill, Girls
Be Italian - Ellen O'Grady, Boys
The Bells Of St. Sebastian - Jonathan Pryce, Company

 

Entr'acte - Orchestra
Unusual Way - Elaine Paige, Jonathan Pryce, Anita Dobson
Contini Submits - Jonathan Pryce, Company
The Grand Canal - Jonathan Pryce, Company
Every Girl In Venice - Girls
Marcia Di Ragazzi - Orchestra
Amor - Jonathan Pryce, Meg Johnson, Chorus
Guido Nervoso - Jonathan Pryce, Anita Dobson, Eileen Page
Only You - Jonathan Pryce, Elizabeth Sastre, Meg Johnson, Chorus
Tarantella - Orchestra
Opera Finale - Jonathan Pryce, Company
Simple - Becky Norman, Elaine Paige, Jonathan Pryce
Be On Your Own - Ann Crumb
Not Since Chaplin (Reprise) - Jonathan Pryce
I Can't Make This Movie - Jonathan Pryce
Waltz From Nine - Orchestra
Getting Tall - Danny Mertsoy
Reprises - Jonathan Pryce, Company
Overture (Original Version) - Girls