Several theatre favorites — including Tony Award winners Bernadette Peters, Angela Lansbury and Tyne Daly — can be heard on a new live recording honoring veteran theatre composer Jerry Herman.
Taped live in Los Angeles on Nov. 10, 2001, "Tap Your Troubles Away!" features 29 Herman tunes sung by such theatrical luminaries as Carol Channing, Leslie Uggams, Lee Roy Reams, Douglas Sills, Hugh Panaro, Sam Harris, Karen Morrow and more than a dozen others. The two-disc recording, available from LML Records (www.lmlmusic.com), will benefit the Actors' Fund of America with more than 80% of the proceeds going to the nonprofit organization.
The complete track listing for "Tap Your Troubles Away!" follows:
Disc One
"It's Today" - Karen Morrow
"Kiss Her Now" - Brian Lane Green
"Just Leave Everything To Me" / "I Want To Make The World Laugh" - Jo Anne Worley
"Look Over There" - Rod McKuen
"Where in The World Is My Prince?" - Nancy Dussault
"Loving You" - Kym Hoy
"You I Like" - Jason Graae
"A Little More Mascara" - Wilson Cruz
"I Will Follow You" - Michael McGuire
"Chin Up, Ladies" - Charlotte Rae (with Lauri Johnson, Marsha Kramer, Kathryn Skatula, Mary Van Arsdel)
"Song on the Sand" - Davis Gaines
"If He Walked Into My Life" - Leslie Uggams
"I Am What I Am" - Ken Page
Disc Two
"Just Go To The Movies" - Jane A. Johnston
"Tap Your Troubles Away" - Cynthia Ferrer & Reece Holland
"I Won't Send Roses" - Rita Moreno
"La Cage aux Folles" - Lee Roy Reams
"Love Look in My Window" - Dale Kristien
"We Need a Little Christmas" - Gene Harbin & Marcia Rodd
"Tomorrow Morning" / "And I Was Beautiful" - Tyne Daly
"Take It All Off Mary" - Mary Jo Catlett (with Melanie Nicholson & Lise Simms)
"I Promise You a Happy Ending" / "Movies Were Movies" - Douglas Sills
"It Only Takes a Moment" - Hugh Panaro
"Before the Parade Passes By" - Carole Cook
"I Don't Want to Know" - Sam Harris
"Time Heals Everything" - Bernadette Peters
"Hello Dolly" / "Mame" - Angela Lansbury & Carol Channing (with Orlando Alexander, Peter Beckett, Carlos Carreras, Rick Crawford, Thomas Garcia, Cameron Henderson, Chris Holly, Robert Marra, Daniel Solis, John Vaughan)
"The Best of Times" - Jerry Herman & Company
"I’ll Be Here Tomorrow" - Jerry Herman One of the theatre's most celebrated composers, Jerry Herman has written the scores for such Broadway musicals as Milk and Honey; Hello, Dolly!; Mame; Dear World; Mack & Mabel; The Grand Tour and La Cage aux Folles. He also contributed songs to A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, and revues of his work include Jerry's Girls and An Evening with Jerry Herman. The songwriter won Tony Awards for his scores for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles. A new revue of Herman's work, Showtune, recently played the Helen Hayes Theatre Company in Nyack, New York.
