![]() A flood of recording and arrangement followed and it remains a concert staple (see comment from ASCAP above). Bernstein gave its premiere with his New York Philharmonic in January 1957 (while the musical was still on Broadway) and made his own recording with them in 1960. The Overture, on the other hand, was a hit from its first hearing. It’s a work that was unsatisfactory from the beginning and the forty years of revision were required to make everyone happy, in the best possible way. The text was redone again, and the songs remained as Bernstein left them, except for a few tweaks by lyricists Stephen Sondheim and Richard Wilbur. Another revision was done in 1999, after Bernstein’s death, by the Royal National Theatre. In 1988, after Hellman’s death, another version was created for Scottish Opera, and then Bernstein looked his music again, creating his ‘final revised version’ that he recorded in 1989, at the London Barbican Centre. ![]() It was given its premiere by New York City Opera and became a long-term staple of the company. The show was expanded in the 1980s to an ‘opera house version’ that restored most of Bernstein’s music. Half the musical numbers were cut, and it opened again in 1973, moving to Broadway in 1974, and closed two years later after 740 performances. Hellman would not permit her text to be used in the revivals, so a new book was commissioned by Hugh Wheeler. ![]()
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