Description
Hollis Music, Inc. (TRO), [No date: circa 1970s-1980s]. Sheet music, complete vocal score, 143 pp.; 31 cm; red covers lettered in white, rear cover with TRO advertisement for vocal selections from The Roar of the Greasepaint, Oliver!, Stop the World and High Spirits; printed price $25.00. Copyright 1960 by Lakeview Music Co. Ltd., London; by arrangement with Lakeview Music. Earlier printing without ISBN, before the Hal Leonard-distributed issue; distributor's address on rear cover TRO Songways Service, Fort Lauderdale.
Condition & notes
In Acceptable condition. Front cover with scuffs, small nicks and specks of color loss, some color loss along edges and spine, crease near upper right corner; rear cover toned and spotted, toning along edges; small slit at foot of spine with nicks and tears at head and foot. Spine creased; paper at the spine fold torn between the glue points at several gutters (e.g. pp. 78-79), binding intact. Pencil performance markings in the music on a few pages (e.g. p. 9); light toning to page edges, otherwise unmarked. Complete piano-vocal score of all 32 numbers of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, freely adapted from Dickens's Oliver Twist, from the Overture through Act II and the Finale, with stage directions and instrumental cues printed in the score. Front matter gives the cast of the 1963 Broadway production at the Imperial Theatre (first performed at the New Theatre, London, June 30, 1960), with Clive Revill as Fagin, Georgia Brown as Nancy, Bruce Prochnik as Oliver, Barry Humphries as Mr. Sowerberry and David Jones, later Davy Jones of the Monkees, as the Artful Dodger; also a synopsis of scenes and instrumentation for the original 12-piece combo and full orchestra. Songs include Food, Glorious Food; Where Is Love?; Consider Yourself; You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two; It's a Fine Life; I'd Do Anything; Oom-Pah-Pah; As Long as He Needs Me; and Who Will Buy?
