But before he can withdraw his money, he has a heart attack and dies on the spot. It's not long before Fairweather realizes that the bank is failing. Captain Fairweather arrives to deposit $100,000 in Bloodgood's bank, to be kept in trust for his infant daughter, Lucy. When clerk Badger arrives, he sizes up what's going on and must be bribed to remain silent. Suffice it to say that the musical begins with a prologue, set twenty years before the rest of the story, in which Bloodgood, his bank failing, is preparing to escape with the money and his infant daughter, Alida. The musical was co-produced by Gene Dingenary, later the owner of the collector's shop Footlight Records in New York City, and presented at the Maidman Theatre, later the John Houseman, on West 42nd Street.Ī plot summary of The Streets of New York is spread over five pages of the CD booklet, so I won't attempt to go into detail here.
Banker Gideon Bloodgood, his rapacious daughter Alida, and a blackmailing clerk named Badger are just a few of the principal characters involved in the convoluted doings of The Streets of New York. The Streets of New York was based on a nineteenth-century melodrama of the same title by Dion Boucicault, whose nineteenth-century melodrama The Shaughraun is scheduled for an upcoming U.S. Chodosh music and Barry Alan Grael book and lyrics for The Streets of New York, which opened on October 29, 1963, early in the season that gave Broadway Hello, Dolly!, Funny Girl, 110 in the Shade, Anyone Can Whistle, and many others. Surely one of the finest recorded off-Broadway scores was written by Richard B. Today I'm looking at the recording made from one of the best of the off-Broadway musical adaptations of this period in upcoming columns, I'll examine a few other notable off-Broadway cast albums. A few were originals, while many others were adapted from old plays, classic Ernest in Love, from The Importance of Being Earnest, All in Love from The Rivals to semi-classic The Fantasticks, from a play by Rostand. These were small shows that would have been entirely unsuitable for Broadway transfer. The early '60s was the golden age of the off-Broadway book musical. Otherwise, we get novelty pieces The Musical of Musicals, Forbidden Broadway, Menopause, Debbie Does Dallas, songbook/bio shows Hank Williams, Listen to My Heart, or works that seem poised to move to Broadway Urinetown, Avenue Q, Caroline, or Change. There's still the occasional straightforward book show, like The Thing About Men or The Immigrant. These days, off-Broadway musicals tend to come in one of several varieties.
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