BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS rehearsal footage

[Demitri2]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 10:16am

Forgive me if this has been posted before but just ran across it on YouTube. You have to love Mary Tyler Moore's pink dress at about two minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RswIUpnLMTY&feature=em-share_video_user

[newintown]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 10:21am

This would have been the version with the Abe Burrows book, in Philadelphia. I'd like to see a reading of that version; when Albee came in, too many songs were cut and the book took a grim, nasty, mean-spirited turn.

[Demitri2]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 10:31am

If you purchase the two disc studio recording of the show with Faith Prince, after some sleuthing you can actually program the discs to play both the tracks from Burrow's HOLLY GOLIGHTLY version and Albee's later BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S rewrite.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 10:43am

Do not remember where I got it but I have an audio recoding of this. Not sure if I burned it to cd yet and not sure if it includes dialog as well. I have never listened to the whole thing.

[Demitri2]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 12:43pm

The CD of the Broadway bound cast I have is just the songs. I doubt the show (either version) with dialogue exists. Also have a sixteen track CD of composer Bob Merrill's demos. All in all Merrill penned some lovely songs including "Dirty Old Men" which interestingly was added to Jule Styne's score when SUGAR was produced in London as SOME LIKE IT HOT.

[1971FolliesFan]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 1:33pm

I have a better quality version if anyone is interested! The image is much sharper, and the colour is brighter. It is really interesting!

[newintown]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 2:25pm

There is a recording of the Broadway version with most of the dialogue (maybe all). It seems to be a night when "Ciao, Cumpare" was cut completely, because it's not on there. Art Lund, Larry Kert, and miss Moore all sound great, but there are not a lot of songs - I believe Albee didn't care for most of the score and intentionally created a book where they wouldn't fit.

[Kad]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 2:32pm

I cannot think of a less appropriate prominent playwright to write a book for a musical adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's than Albee.

Or a book of a musical in general.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 2:33pm

The complete version newintown mentions is the full show. The highlights LP is taken from the same recording and actually sounds a good deal better.

[newintown]

Posted: 3/26/15 at 2:42pm

I agree, Kad, but Albee was very hot at the time (from Who's Afraid), and Merrick liked hot.

Unfortunately, Albee's book for Tiffany's sounds like a rejected first draft of Who's Afraid - nothing but nasty people bitching one another out.

Updated On: 3/26/15 at 02:42 PM

[goldenboy]

Posted: 3/27/15 at 8:33pm

Thanks for posting this video. Didn't look bad at all. Maybe it was better than we thought. We will never know.

[smallworld]

Posted: 3/27/15 at 9:34pm

I love this score.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 3/28/15 at 12:58pm

Bob Merrill , the composer lyricist is an unsung genius.
I love his scores.
Henry Sweet Henry
Carnival
New Girl in Town (My least favorite)
Take Me Along and his work on Breakfast At Tiffany's
could have saved the show if he had decent collaborators.
He even supplied some songs to Hello Dolly including. - Elegance


The lyrics to Sugar and Funny Girl. And Prettybelle.