Original Cast album of the Musical by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens.

Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's new musical, The Glorious Ones, is a funny and touching paean to actors. The show is set in 16th century Italy when companies of vagabond performers toured the cities and countrysides improvising scenarios of heightened humor and bawdy physical comedy that became known as commedia dell'arte. It was a time when actors reigned supreme. The leader of The Glorious Ones troupe, Flaminio Scala, a real historical figure portrayed with wonderful panache and pathos by Marc Kudisch, reigned over them all for a short time. Many of our most beloved modern comic performers from Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball and Milton Berle to Jim Carey, Robin Williams and even The Simpsons are descended from the traditions of Renaissance commedia dell'arte.

Track Listing

• Prologue
• The Glorious Ones
• Making Love
• Pantalone Alone
• The Comedy of Love
• Madness to Act
• Absalom
• Flaminio Scala's Historical Journey to France
• Armanda's Tarantella
• Improvisation
• The World She Writes
• Opposite You
• My Body Wasn't Why
• Flaminio Scala's Ominous Dream
• Rise and Fall
• The Moon Woman
• The Glorious Ones (Reprise)
• I Was Here
• Armanda's Sack
• Finale: the Comedy of Love
• Suite from 'The Glorious Ones'
• My Body Wasn't Why (Broadcast Version)
• I Was Here (Broadcast Version)

Additional Details

Label: JAY Records

Genre: Musical/Broadway

Run Time: 65 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/09/08

UPC: 605288140723