Pipe Dream - Live Recording from New York City Center Encores!

Outcasts yearning for a better life populate the bordellos and flophouses of a 1950s California seaside town in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream, based on the novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck. At the heart of the story is the unlikely romance between Doc, a marine biologist, and Suzy, a vagrant who has recently taken up residence at a local brothel. This 1955 Broadway musical rarity had not been seen or heard in a full orchestral production in New York City until it was brought back to life by New York City Center’sEncores! series in March 2012. Bringing the score gloriously to life, as captured on the Live album, is theEncores! cast which includes Will Chase as Doc ("All Kinds of People," "All at Once You Love Her," "The Man I Used to Be"), Laura Osnes as Suzy ("Everybody's Got a Home But Me," "The Next Time It Happens"), Leslie Uggams as Fauna ("Sweet Thursday"), Tom Wopat as Mac ("A Lopsided Bus," "The Party We're Going To Have Tomorrow Night") and Stephen Wallem as Hazel ("Thinkin'").

PIPE DREAM is presented through special arrangement with R&H Theatricals: www.rnh.com.

1. Overture
2. All Kinds of People
3. The Tide Pool
4. Everybody’s Got a Home But Me
5. A Lopsided Bus
6. Bums’ Opera
7. Fauna’s Song
8. The Man I Used to Be
9. Sweet Thursday
10. Suzy Is a Good Thing
11. All at Once You Love Her
12. Entr’acte
13. The Happiest House on the Block
14. The Party That We’re Gonna Have Tomorrow Night
15. Fractured Fugue
16. Will You Marry Me?
17. Thinkin’
18. Reprise: All at Once You Love Her
19. How Long?
20. The Next Time It Happens
21. Finale: Sweet Thursday
22. Bows