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Since 1985, when Leonard Bernstein's 1957 musical West Side Story was released with an operatic cast that included soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and tenor Jose Carreras -- and sold handsomely -- other shows have got the tony treatment on records: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (1945) and South Pacific (1949), and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956). Now, most impressive of all, comes Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1927 musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat...
...Zealand-born Te Kanawa as an all-American Nellie Forbush was a greater suspension of disbelief than many listeners were willing to make. Yet My Fair Lady was solid and assured, even if Jeremy Irons did not erase the memory of Rex Harrison as | Henry Higgins. And Carousel, with songstress Barbara Cook and opera bass Samuel Ramey as the ill-fated lovers, was thrilling...
...animatronic figures of a little girl and her brother. "Culture doesn't just come; it develops slowly, richly. Generation after generation has to digest and refine these marvelous influences." The message may seem a little heavy for an amusement park, but the audience in the country's first revolving Carousel Theater is all ears. As the stage revolves, the sagacious bird launches into a lecture on the virtues of isolationism. Finally the Feathered One concludes, "People are like dreams," a huge red sun rises above the stage, and all the flesh-and-blood visitors to the Meet the World pavilion...
...Cardinals, fresh from a record eighth seventh-game victory in ten lifetime opportunities, have now run or limped their way to three World Series in six seasons. "It seems when they get things going," sighed the San Francisco pitcher Mike Krukow, "they're a carousel. They just keep chiming in runs." But knowing they took the season and the playoffs largely with pitching at the end, Cardinals Base Stealer Vince Coleman cautions, "You have to establish a hitting game before you can establish a running game...
...prominent fellow refuseniks. Not running for President has become the rage this year, quite a paradox considering the opportunities. Rarely has the gold ring seemed to be so reachable. With the incumbent retiring and neither party boasting an automatic heir, just about any credible politician could board the presidential carousel. Many have, along with some less credible ones, 14 all told at last count. Yet the number who decline to whirl has grown just as startlingly...