Gingold, Hermione Farley Granger Polly Bergen "First Impressions" 1959 LP Signed Autograph Original Cast

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Description: Original Cast-"First Impressions"(Columbia Masterwork 2014)-LP. This original cast LP features the 1959 Broadway Musical-"First Impressions" starring Hermione Gingold, Farley Granger and Polly Bergen.First Impressions (1959) is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by George Weiss, Bo Goldman, and Glenn Paxton, and book by Abe Burrows, based on the stage adaptation by Helen Jerome of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice. The Broadway production premiered at the Alvin Theater, New York City, on March 19, 1959, and played 84 performances. The stars of the original cast were Hermione Gingold (as Mrs. Bennet), Polly Bergen (as Elizabeth Bennet), and Farley Granger (as Mr. Darcy), supported by Phyllis Newman (Jane Bennet), Ellen Hanley (Charlotte Lucas), Christopher Hewett (Mr. Collins) , Donald Madden (Charles Bingley), and James Mitchell (Capt. Wickham). Hewett replaced Tony Award-winner Hiram Sherman after the show's out-of-town tryout, while Hanley replaced Bergen shortly into the run.Like the novel, the musical is concerned primarily with the rocky courtship between Elizabeth Bennet, a poor gentlemen's daughter with four sisters, and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a wealthy aristocrat who arrives in Miss Elizabeth's rural village in 1813. The course of true love is hindered by minor character flaws on both sides--his pride and reserve, which look like arrogance to her, and her tendency to jump to erroneous conclusions based on little evidence, as well as her verbal assertiveness, which mildly scandalizes him--but as both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are good and sensible people, all ends happily. The musical concentrates more than the novel does on Mrs. Bennet's attitude toward all this, and on her tireless attempts to marry off her five marriageable daughters, despite the family's lack of money. The emphasis on Mrs. Bennet, no doubt, is the result of having cast a star (Hermione Gingold) in what was meant by Austen to be a secondary role. The LP has been autographed on the front by Hermione Gingold with a fountain pen in red,Polly Bergen with a fountain pen in blue and Farley Granger with a fountain pen in black....................CONDITION OF VINYL,COVER AND AUTOGRAPHS IS VG..................

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