Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Overture
2. Opening
3. I Know It Can Happen Again
4. Pudgy Legs
5. Dialogue - One Foot, Other Foot
6. One Foot, Other Foot
7. Children's Dance
8. Grandmother's Death
9. Winters Go By
10. Dialogue - Poor Joe
11. Poor Joe
12. Diploma
13. A Fellow Needs A Girl
14. Freshmen Get Together
15. Dream Sequence
16. Pas de Deux
17. End of College Dance
18. Wildcats
19. Jennie Reads Letter
20. Scene of Professors
21. So Far
22. You Are Never Away
23. You Are Never Away (Encore)
24. Dialogue - Poor Joe (Reprise)
25. Poor Joe (Reprise)
26. Marjorie's Death
27. What A Lovely Day For A Wedding!
28. It May Be A Good Idea
29. Finale Act I

Disc 2:

1. Entr'acte
2. Opening Act II
3. Money Isn't Everything
4. Dance (Money Isn't Everything)
5. Dialogue - Poor Joe (Second Reprise)
6. Poor Joe (Second Reprise)
7. You Are Never Away (Reprise)
8. A Fellow Needs A Girl (Reprise)
9. Yatata
10. The Gentleman Is a Dope
11. Dialogue - Allegro
12. Allegro
13. Allegro Ballet
14. Come Home
15. Finale Ultimo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66551 in Music
• Released on: 2009-02-03
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .37 pounds
• Running time: 95 minutes

Customer Reviews

A Rodgers & Hammerstein "Flop"?,well,judging by this set there is no such thing!
Allegro was first staged in 1947,and ran for (only?) 315 performances,which by Rodgers and Hammerstein's previous form(Allegro was preceeded by Oklahoma and Carousel,so it had a lot to live up to.) Maybe it was a "Flop"by those standards,but as R&H went on to follow it with South Pacific and The King and I,it had a lot to compete with.
Since then it has been unfairly ignored,even though there WAS a concert performance in 1994 (with a revised and not complete score).It has taken this album(with the complete score) to reveal what aficionados already knew,it has the required strengths to stand by ANY of R&H other musicals,especially given the excellent cast.
How could it be anything else when Stephen Sondheim,who was who was a production assistant for the original Broadway production,sat in on the recording sessions.
It would be great if someone had the courage to mount a staged production.
BTW,Oscar Hammerstein II (who died in 1960) has two speaking lines in this new recording,these come (it seems) fro an old dictation tape of Hammerstein's.Sondheim himself also has some spoken lines on this recording.
If you love R&H musicals,and who doesn't,you cannot afford to miss this.


As I have now listened to this set several times,I thought I would append some thoughts.
I can see why the 1947 Broadway Theatregoers were disappointed by this work.They were expecting a big R&H musical, with showstoppers,and a fantasy plot to lift them from the post WW2 gloom.
What they got was a charming,wistful & moving domestic show.
R&H were obviously harking back to the happy days between the two world wars,and trying (unsucessfully, by the run of the musical) to say that this homely spirit of the US was still there if we looked for it.The work also says,that often what we most desire is really where we started (at home)
The music of this work is probably a complete exception to all of Rodgers other works,and might have been a (failed) experiment at getting back to his works with Lorenz Hart,indeed in the final ballet there are bars of music from "Johnny One Note" from the musical "Babes in Arms".
I think we are far enough removed now from 1947 now to understand what R&H were trying to achieve,and hopefully this recording will re~instate Allegro to it's rightful place along side the other R&H masterworks.
If you buy this work (and I urge you to) give it time to unfold it's gentle and subtle magic upon you.
Once it does it will never leave your CD collection.

A gem
I've only come to Rodgers & Hammerstein recently, via a stage production of Carousel, then the movies. Allegro wasn't a success, and was never turned into a movie. This new album (February 2009) contains all the songs, incidental music, and rythmic dialogue from the play, and makes me hope for a revival or, even better, a movie. It's a story of a man on a voyage of self-discovery, suffering much on the way and is quite unlike anything else written by R&H. Excellent recording. I'm delighted I downloaded it.