{"product_id":"bravo-giovanni-1962-original-broadway-cast","title":"Bravo Giovanni (1962 Original Broadway Cast)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003ch3\u003e \u003cspan\u003eAmazon.com\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eClassical bass Cesare Siepi made his Broadway debut with this 1962 show. Haven't heard of it? No wonder; it closed after 76 performances. Set in Rome, the show has a convoluted plot that involves the rivalry between two restaurants, one a mom-and-pop trattoria, the other a chainlike establishment. Siepi doesn't do so well with the farcical show tunes (\"Breachy's Law\"), but he lets it rip on such songs as \"If I Were the Man\" and the vivacious \"We Won't Discuss It.\" (One can only dream of what might have happened to him had he been cast in, say, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSouth Pacific\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.) As is so often true in musicals, the women steal the show. As Giovanni's brassy love interest, Michele Lee belts out \"I'm All I've Got\" and \"Steady, Steady,\" a song so good that it could have been written by Jule Styne (a swinging version from Lee's 1966 solo album is a bonus track here). Those who don't care much for mock Italianate shenanigans should go straight for Maria Kornilova's \"The Kangaroo,\" a delirious number in which she goes over various dances (\"You hop! You hop! You wiggle and then you hop!\") with a gusto that's Broadway at its best: it's over the top, it knows it, and it doesn't care. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--Elisabeth Vincentelli\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Audio Cd, Cast Recording, Original Recording Remastered","offer_id":45913842483391,"sku":"b8e9877f-0c94-4f3c-b5d2-d6cff0b107ce","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/89a598fce73ebbc060402437bd4dbff4.jpg?v=1785052016","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/bravo-giovanni-1962-original-broadway-cast","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}