BROADWAY MUSICAL 70 GIRLS 70 Two LP Albums, 1961 Photo Sheet & Cast Details
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BROADWAY MUSICAL LP 70 GIRLS 70 Invester Package 1971. The Package includes: Original LP album cover with handwritten inscription:
“We have a hit album in 1971. A return engagement in ‘72?”
Merry Christmas from the cast of
“70, Girls, 70”.
Thank you, dear Backer.
The musical starred:
Mildred Natwick
Hans Conried
Lillian Roth and many other “seniors”.
There are actually two LP’s in the cover.
1) COLUMBIA RECORDS Stereo is the original
2) I am not sure how I came to possess the 2nd album. It was in the slipcover with the other album. It has the same songs. DICK CHARLES Recording Service. 729 Seventh Avenue, N.Y.C.
The album cover is good, but is separated in a few places on the bottom side. There is a sheet with 11 photos from the play, action shots, with descriptions beneath. There is also a full page text “Stereo Review” dated November 1971 that gives lots of facts and anecdotes about the cast members and show.
70, Girls, 70 is a musical with a book by Fred Ebb and Norman L. Martin adapted by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Ebb, and music by John Kander. The musical is based on the 1958 play Breath of Spring by Peter Coke, which was adapted for the movies in 1960 as Make Mine Mink.
Playwrights: Fred Ebb, Norman L. Martin
First performance: April 15, 1971
Composer: John Kander
Lyricist: Fred Ebb
You know the songs even if you've never heard of 70, Girls, 70. That's because first Liza Minnelli popularized “Yes,” the anthem to seizing life (recently heard in Netflix's GLOW, sung by Kevin Cahoon) in Liza With a Z, and the revue And the World Goes ’Round returned “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup” to musical lovers' attention.
Revived in 2006 as part of City Center's Encores! series, the original production of the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical lasted 35 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre after it opened on Broadway April 15, 1971. Featuring a cast that could rival that of Follies in terms of bygone glory (including torch singer Lillian Roth, Hans Conreid, Tony winner and One Life to Live star Lillian Hayman, and Barefoot in the Park scene stealer Mildred Natwick as ringleader Ida), the show found a group of senior citizens robbing fur stores in order to secure the funds necessary to buy their rundown retirement home.
The show may be best remembered today for—in addition to those Kander and Ebb songs—being the final show of David Burns, who collapsed on stage of a heart attack during a preview performance out of town and died shortly afterward. Nevertheless, the show went on to open on Broadway, earning Natwick a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical at the age of 66—more proof that age has nothing to do with ability if you're willing to say “yes I can, yes I will.”
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