ILLYA DARLING (LIMITED REISSUE) -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT
    Screen Archives Entertainment Screen Archives Entertainment    
   Home  Shipping Rates  Order Info  Contact Us  Links  Change Style
  search tips
   [log in]   [new customer?]  [join mailing list]
  Essential SSL


  
Our Price: $19.95
Bookmark and Share
Label:
Name: KRITZERLAND
Number: KR200124

ILLYA DARLING (LIMITED REISSUE) (CD)
Composed by: Manos Hadjidakis

Sample Tracks
Name Number
Po, Po, Po 02
Piraeus, My Love 03
Golden Land 04
Never On Sunday 14
Heaven Help The Sailors On A Night Like This 15
Play All Tracks

Illya Darling opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theater on April 11, 1967. It was based on the wildly popular Greek film Never On Sunday, which made an International star of Melina Mercouri. The film was written and directed by American Jules Dassin, who also played the male lead. Illya Darling would have many of the same players, including Miss Mercouri, writer/director Dassin, the film’s costume designer, Theoni V. Aldredge, and film cast members Titos Vandis and Despo. The film’s composer, the Oscar-winning Manos Hadjidakis (Oscar for Best Song – Never On Sunday), would write the score, with lyrics by Man Of La Mancha’s Joe Darion.

The show had a difficult birth during its out-of-town tryouts, and it opened on Broadway to tepid reviews – but those tepid reviews also were love letters to Miss Mercouri. The show received six Tony nominations, winning none. Because of Miss Mercouri’s reviews and star power, the show ran almost a year, and then toured with Cyd Charisse. The original cast album was issued by United Artists, who had funded the show in full. That LP put the songs in a completely different order than they were in the show.

For this first-ever CD release, we have put the songs back in show order and have given the proper titles to any that were renamed for the LP. In going through the session tapes, we made the incredible discovery that two songs were recorded but not used on the LP – the show’s opening number “Po, Po, Po” and a number called “Birthday Song.” Both songs were transferred and mixed from the four-track session tapes and put where they belong in the show’s song order. Hearing the show with those two numbers and everything in show order is something of a revelation.

The colorful cast includes an incandescent Melina Mercouri, Orson Bean, Titos Vandis, Nikos Kourkoulos, Rudy Bond, Hal Linden, and Joe E. Marks. The CD has been mastered from the original album master tapes (and for the two added songs, from the original four-track session tapes).

1 Overture 3:14
2 Po, Po, Po 2:45
3 Piraeus, My Love 3:03
4 Golden Land 2:56
5 Yorgo’s Dance (Zebekiko) 1:53
6 Love, Love, Love 3:17
7 I Think She Needs Me 2:39
8 I’ll Never Lay Down Anymore 3:03
9 After Love 3:20
10 Birthday Song 0:57
11 Medea Tango 4:01
12 Illya Darling 3:25
13 Dear Mr. Shubert 1:30
14 Never On Sunday 3:54
15 Heaven Help the Sailors on a Night Like This 3:47
16 Taverna Dance 3:31
17 Ya Chara 4:14

Total length: 51:29

  
Customers who bought this title also bought:
SCARAMOUCHE
$19.95
 
LEGENDS OF THE FALL
$9.95
 
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE
$19.95
 
  
Last Items Viewed:
  
Reviews and Comments: (0)
All times US Eastern   |   login to post your own review or comments.
There are no reviews or comments yet. Log in or register to post your own reviews or comments.
 YOUR CART
  Your cart is empty.
TOP WEEKLY CDS
1 THE FOOD OF THE GODS / FROGS (1000 EDITION)
2 THE GOLDEN AGE OF HORROR VOL. 1 (LIMITED EDITION)
3 DE SADE (1000 EDITION)
4 THE INTRUDER WITHIN / STARCROSSED (500 EDITION)
5 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990) (REMASTERED/LIMITED EDITION)
6 STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES – THE 1701 COLLECTION VOL 7 (2CD)
7 THE OTHER (DELUXE EDITION)
8 A RAISIN IN THE SUN (REISSUE) / REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT (EXPANDED)
9 I, DESIRE (REMASTERED/500 EDITION)
10 THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (5000 EDITION)

TOP WEEKLY DVD/BLU-RAY TITLES
1 WORLD OF GIANTS - THE COMPLETE SERIES (1959)
2 THE CREATURE WASN'T NICE (DIRECTOR'S CUT DVD)
3 THE FIRM (2009)
4 THE RAIN KILLER (1990 / 1000 LIMITED EDITION)
5 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (1971)
6 BABY BOOM (1987)
7 A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY (1987)
8 NASHVILLE GIRL (1976 / 1000 LIMITED EDITION) (SPECIAL PROMOTION)
9 ANGEL (AKA DANNY BOY / 1982)
10 MEET JOHN DOE (Blu-ray) (1941)

 
© 2024 Screen Archives Entertainment