• 20 files in collection
1. Overture

2. 1284

3. We're Rats

4. The Mayor Doesn't Care

5. Doing My Job

6. Rat Trap

7. Easy For Me

8. What a Day

9. Paradise

10. Transylvania

11. Better Keep Your Promise

12. Follow the Music Man

13. Did You See

14. Their Interests Are Our Interests

15. Mother

16. Gold

17. I'll Remember

18. You've Outstayed Your Welcome

19. Follow the Music Man Reprise

20. Paradise Reprise

MP3 Jarboe/Shield - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

8.99 USD

Pop comedy musical theatre

20 MP3 Songs
KIDS/FAMILY: Children''s Pop, POP: British Pop



Details:
THIS MUSICAL COMEDY WAS FIRST PERFORMED IN LOS ANGELES IN 1984 AS A SPOOF ON GEORGE ORWELL''S "1984." IT''S ORIGINAL TITLE WAS "1284," THE YEAR THE ACTUAL PIED PIPER APPEARED IN HAMELN AND TOOK AWAY 150 CHILDREN. IN THIS ZANY RE-TELLING, THE RATS WORK FOR THE ROTTEN MAYOR IN A CHEESE FOR GOLD EXTORTION GAME, AND THE PIPER IS A TIME TRAVELER.

MUSICAL DIRECTOR: ALAN AXELROD. VOCALISTS: HARVEY SHIELD, JOHN HOSTETTER, JODI MITCHEL, J.D. ELLIS, JOEY SHECK, SUSAN HOLMES, DEL APPLEBY AND LESLEY SACHS.

MUSICIANS: ALAN AXELROD, CARL SEALOVE, BOB FORTE AND SONYA EDELMAN.

THE ORIGINAL L.A. CAST WAS EIGHT. THE CIRCLE-IN-THE-SQUARE PRODUCTION IN NYC HAD A CAST OF TEN. SINCE THEN AS MANY AS SIXTY PERFORMERS HAVE TAKEN PART IN ITS PRESENTATION.

"THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN" HAS ALSO BEEN PERFORMED AS A BALLET.

THE MELODIES OF "HAMELIN" WILL SOON REAPPEAR IN AN UPCOMING MUSICAL "MACABEAT."

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