LOLITA MY LOVE Demo 45 rpm EP JOHN BARRY & ALAN LERNER

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RARE DEMONSTRATION 7" 45 RPM EP

from the Ill-Fated Play "LOLITA MY LOVE"

BY JOHN BARRY & ALAN J. LERNER

Mediasound MSP 118 Stereo

COUNTRY OF ISSUE: USA

YEAR OF ISSUE: 1972

Studio demo with unidentified singers
Tracks:

Side 1
1. Going, Going, Gone - female vocal
2. How Far Is It to the Next Town - female

Side 2
1. How Far Is It to the Next Town - male vocal

"Going, Going Gone is upbeat and fun (Shirley Bassey recorded a cover of it), and the "How Far is It to the Next Town" was very long but fascinating as both a song and a way of advancing the play. That song made it as a cover on a tribute CD called Lerner, Lowe and Lane.  A S.T.A.G.E. tribute to Alan Jay Lerner, Lerner, Lowe and Lane has performances of "How Far is It to the Next Town".

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THE SHOW'S HISTORY

The Pre-Broadway tryout of "Lolita My Love" by Barry and Alan Jay Lerner, was based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. It closed in Boston in 1971 while on a tour prior to Broadway. Lolita, My Love was initiated by Lerner, the well-known lyricist of My Fair Lady and other major hits, who recruited Barry to write the score. Nabokov, who had several times refused to allow adaptations of his novel, stated that "Mr. Lerner is a most talented and excellent classicist. If you have to make a musical version of Lolita, he is the one to do it".  Like most musicals of the time, the production was scheduled for a multi-city "tryout" tour, during which rewrites could be done as needed, before opening on Broadway. The original director was opera impressario Tito Capobianco, and choreography was provided by Jack Cole, although Cole was fired during rehearsals and replaced by Danny Daniels. Upon opening in Philadelphia on February 16, 1971, the show got savage reviews and immediately closed for more work. Capobianco was fired and replaced by Noel Willman, and Daniels was replaced as choreographer by Dan Siretta. Even the actress playing Lolita was let go. The show reopened in Boston but did lukewarm business and received mixed reviews, although critics acknowledged good performances by John Neville as Humbert and Dorothy Loudon as Lolita's vulgar mother, Charlotte, and found the music and lyrics strong. Lolita was played by Willy Wonka and Dark Shadows actress Denise Nickerson. The production closed before its scheduled opening at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, the site of many previous Lerner triumphs; it lost $900,000. Like the novel, Lolita, My Love focused on a European-born professor, Humbert Humbert, who lives in the U.S.; he foolishly falls in love with his landlady's teenaged daughter. While the plot is unpleasant, Humbert eventually emerges as a near-tragic figure, and there is much witty explication of the American culture that both encourages and condemns such behavior. While the show was not officially recorded, a bootleg recording from the theater sound board has surfaced and is sold openly. A track listing on the recording gives the following list of songs:

Overture
Going, Going, Gone
The Same Old Song
Saturday
In the Broken Promise Land of 15
The Same Old Song (Reprise)
Dante, Petrarch and Poe
Sur Les Quais
Charlotte's Letter
Farewell, Little Dream
At the Bed-D-By Motel
Tell Me, Tell Me
Buckin' for Beardsley/Beardsley School for Girls
March Out of My Life
The Same Old Song (Reprise)
All You Can Do is Tell Me You Love Me
How Far is It to the Next Town
How Far is It to the Next Town (Reprise)
Lolita
Finale

"Going, Going, Gone" was recorded by Shirley Bassey, and "In The Broken-Promise Land Of Fifteen" has been recorded several times, notably by Robert Goulet. A couple of non-commercial recordings on the Mediasound label featuring those two songs and ‘How Far Is It to the Next Town?’ also surfaced. In refusing many previous offers to adapt the novel, Nabokov insisted that the distasteful plot was acceptable because it existed only in his head; to make a real twelve-year-old girl play the part, particular in person on stage night after night, "would be sinful and immoral." The skeletal plot alone, without Nabokov's authorial voice, is indeed quite salacious, and critics and audiences reacted negatively to it. Subsequent writers (notably Ken Mandelbaum and Frank Rich) have found elements of the show worthy of praise, with Mandelbaum contending that it is unlikely anyone could produce a better musical version of what is probably fundamentally impossible material. In 1982, a non-musical adaptation of Lolita by Edward Albee opened to memorably negative reviews, and many critics specifically pointed out ways in which this version was lacking when compared to the earlier musical; Rich contended that Albee's version had a hideous set, pointing out that even the "flop musical version...got the scenery right."

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