Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Music CD, Musical Sound Recording, Sound Recording

Author:

Sheik, Duncan, 1969- composer, audio producer.

Title:

Alice by heart / music by Duncan Sheik ; lyrics by Steven Sater ; book by Steven Sater & Jessie Nelson.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Ghostlight Records, [2019]

℗2019

Description:

1 audio disc (approximately 45 min) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : color illustrations ; 12 cm)

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

audio file

CD audio

Summary:

As Alice and her best friend Alfred take shelter in an underground tube station during the bombing of London in 1941, Alfred's tuberculosis causes him to be quarantined. Alice spends time with him, imagining the other occupants of the shelter to be characters within her favorite story -- "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

Subjects:

Musicals.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Tuberculosis -- Drama.

Chronic diseases in children -- Drama.

Imagination -- Drama.

London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1941 -- Drama.

Genre:

Musicals.

Original cast recordings.

Other Author:

Sater, Steven, lyricist, author.

Nelson, Jessie, author.

Blanck, Kim, performer.

Galvin, Noah, performer.

Gordon, Molly, 1994- performer.

Infante, Zachary, performer.

Kober, Andrew, performer.

McLean, Grace, performer.

Ricafort, Catherine, performer.

Ryan, Colton, performer.

Saunders, Heath, performer.

Taylor, Wesley, performer.

Hart, Jason (Musician), conductor.

Musical theatre adaptation of (work) : Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in Wonderland.

Notes:

Title from disc surface.

Inspired by "Alice in Wonderland".

Full libretto and credits printed on insert.

Album produced by Duncan Sheik and Kurt Deutsch ; orchestrations by Duncan Sheik ; additional orchestrations and vocal arrangements by Simon Hale.

Performed by the original cast: Kim Blanck, Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Zachary Infante, Andrew Kober, Grace McLean, Catherine Ricafort, Colton Ryan, Heath Saunders, Wesley Taylor ; with orchestral accompaniment ; Jason Hart, conductor.

Recorded 2019 March 24 & 25 Sear Sound, New York City.

Compact disc.

Contents:

West of words -- Down the hole -- Still -- Chillin' the regrets -- The key is -- Those long eyes -- Manage your flamingo -- Sick to death of Alice-ness -- Brillig braelig -- Some things fall away -- Your shell of grief -- Another room in your head -- Isn't it a trial? -- Do you think we think you're Alice? -- I've shrunk enough -- Afternoon -- Winter blooms.

ISBN:

9786317998421 : CD

6317998426 : CD

Publisher Number:

599817

Other Number:

1119724191

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

821566

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

CD K ALIC AH S17