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So what are you waiting for, Mr. Bruce?!!!!
You have about 8-10 buyers right here, so a 75-copy pressing would be a very quick sellout, I imagine! 
Incidentally.....for the record....Elaine Tomkinson dubbed Elizabeth Taylor's voice (probably only partially, as with Nixon and Kerr in KING AND I).....and she also dubbed Lesley-Anne Down and Chloe Franks in the film.
For what it's worth, since Kritzerland does DVDs too, I'd buy an improved version of the DVD. Sure, the movie could have been better, but it doesn't have to look (or sound) as bad as it does on video. Does it help anything that Sondheim is a close personal friend?
(And on the subject of disappointing films of smash shows, I'd love a soundtrack CD of Michael Ritchie's "The Fantasticks." The movie itself has never been released in the director's original cut, either, only the Coppola re-edit.)
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I have always wanted this... especially for "The Glamorous Life."
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I love the show, hated the film. Liz is completely dubbed, though I have one track of Liz in the film, before she was dubbed..
Was that her on the LP, though, Joe? Because the quick, needle-drop buzz-through I did of my LP had me convinced it was her singing her way carefully through "Send in the Clowns".
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Oct 12, 2012 - 2:50 PM
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lexedo
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I ripped this from my mom's record a few years back, which was Columbia LP JS 35333. Here are the songs and credits that I had.
01 Overture and Night Waltz (Love Takes Time) [Performed by the Company]
02 The Glamorious Life [Performed by Elaine Tomkinson]
03 Now - Soon - Later [Performed by Len Cariou, Christopher Gaurd, Lesley-Ann Down]
04 You Must Meet My Wife [Performed by Len Cariou, Elisabeth Taylor]
05 Every Day A Little Death [Performed by Diana Rigg, Lesley-Ann Down]
06 Night Waltz [Instrumental]
07 A Weekend in the Country [Performed by L Dunlop, Lesley-Anne Down, Len Cariou, Diana Rigg, L Guittard, C Gaurd]
08 Send in the Clowns [Performed by Elizabeth Taylor]
09 It Would Have Been Wonderful [Performed by Len Cariou, Laurence Guittard]
10 Finale -- Send in the Clowns (reprise) - Night Waltz [Performed by Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou]
And here are some other relevant credits:
Produced by Jonathan Tunick and Bob Hathaway
Music scored and supervised by Jonathan Tunick
Recorded by John Richards at DeLane Lea Music Centre, London
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Oct 12, 2012 - 4:18 PM
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.....I love the show, hated the film. Liz is completely dubbed, though I have one track of Liz in the film, before she was dubbed......
Let's assume for a moment that Taylor WAS completely dubbed, as Joe Caps suggests.
But, if so, why would ANYONE in a production capacity attempt to have it done so haltingly, so badly, so unmusically that everyone, not knowing Taylor was dubbed, would complain for all these years about how awful Taylor's singing was in the film? Why wouldn't Prince, Sondheim, and Tomkinson have aimed for a good vocal reproduction of the songs coming out of Taylor's mouth instead? The music would have been much better served, and Taylor would have come out of the enterprise with far higher critical esteem.
On the other hand, if Taylor, a legendary non-singer, were partially-dubbed in the really rough spots by Tomkinson, then Tomkinson would HAVE to do it badly---but slightly better than Taylor---to make it work believably and sound like a match---even if, as a dubber, she were capable of doing it well.
Can you imagine the producers saying to Tomkinson, "We have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that we want you to dub Elizabeth Taylor's voice. She is a terrible singer so we want you to make a new recording of all her songs. The bad news is that we want you to do it really badly, so that while the critics will cry out in horror, it will seem logical coming out of Taylor's mouth."
In the end, I would suggest to you that Tomkinson's dubbing of Taylor, in partial, was a desperation "fix" on the part of the producers to help the music along and give Taylor some musical credibility and a claim that she sang in the film.
Rosalind Russell coasted for many years on the suggestion that she had sung much of GYPSY, whereas she sang very little. (But it was enough to render the claim at least partially true.)
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I have always wanted this... especially for "The Glamorous Life."
"The Glamorous Life" is actually on the Broadway Cast CD as a bonus track.
James
Thank you for the head's up -- just downloaded the track from the iTunes store. Whatever happened to Elaine Tomkinson?
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How about a little captioning contest, everybody?
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