THE MUSIC

Marti Rolph (Cecily) & Christopher Wells (Courtly)
"Dancing Beautiful Music" in East Hampton

Ray C. Davis (Courtly) & Kathryn Evans (Cecily)
"Dancing Beautiful Music" in Bromley

The Piano/Vocal score has never been published nor is it available for purchase.
It can only be obtained on loan from Samuel French, Inc., in conjunction with an actual performance of the show.
Please see the Contact & Rights page for more information.

To date, there has been no "original cast recording" from any production of "The Case of the Dead Flamingo Dancer." Three years after the East Hampton premiere and its subsequent two-week-limited-run, the authors created a demonstration recording of 10 musical numbers from the score to interest prospective producers. They assembled a top-notch cast of Broadway veterans, including several (past and, at the time, future) Tony Award winners, and an 18-piece band comprised of the New York theatre’s first-call pit players, with orchestrations specially fashioned by Larry Wilcox. The demo recording, issued only on cassette and never sold commercially, quickly accomplished its purpose: a London-based producer, Bill Kenwright, heard the score and secured the rights to mount the show in England, in association with Saraband Productions (see Production History).

Click on any of the song titles below to listen to an MP3 file of the demonstration recording.
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Please remember that the songs are copyrighted and downloading any of them does not grant anyone any right for commercial use.

NOTE: The demo recording does not represent the current version of the score; the authors made significant revisions in some of the numbers (mostly cuts and new lyrics) when the show was produced in England. Two songs are note-for-note the same in the show as on the tape: "Dancing Beautiful Music" and "Gussie’s Blues." The "Prologue," "It’s In the Feet!," "Something Special," "Little Ol’ Innocent Me" and "Like This" are about 95% identical. In the absence of any "definitive" recording, these demos still give a good idea of the feel and energy of the show. The text, as published by Samuel French, Inc. (see the Contact & Rights page), contains the authorized version of the dialogue and lyrics and the Piano/Conductor score (see NOTE below) contains the complete musical score in its final form.