I cleaned up the VHS video of this GMHC benefit, and replaced the muddled audio with either the stereo CD or with dramatically improved dialogue audio - enjoy!
Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: Arthur Laurents
Musical Direction: Paul Gemignani
Orchestration: Don Walker
Narrator: Angela Lansbury
Fay Apple: Bernadette Peters
Cora Hoover Hooper: Madeline Kahn
J. Bowden Hapgood: Scott Bakula
Dr. Detmold: Nick Wyman
Treasurer Cooley: Chip Zien
Chief Magruder: Ken Page
Comptroller Schub: Walter Bobbie
The Boys: Sterling Clark, Harvey Evans, Evan Pappas, Eric Riley, Tony Stevens
Mrs. Schroeder: Maureen Moore
Soprano Soloist: Harolyn Blackwell
Western Union Boy: Sterling Clark
Ballet: Sandra Brown, Stacy Caddell, Robert LaFosse, Lisa Lockwood, Jon Marshall Sharp Members of the Ensemble: Joan Barber, Mary Bentley-LaMar, Gerry Burkhardt, Susan Cella, Nick Corley, Madeleine Doherty, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Joy Franz, Philip Hoffman, Michael Ingram, Betsy Joslyn, Joseph Kolinski, David Lowenstein, Seth Malkin, Donna Lee Marshall, Michael X. Martin, Marin Mazzie, Maureen Moore, Karen Murphy, Bill Nolte, Robert Ousley, Darcy Pulliam, Sam Reni, Eric Riley, Nancy Ringham, Francis Ruivivar, Martin Van Treuren, Whitney Webster, Walter Willison, John Leslie Wolfe
“Miracle Introduction” and “Fay’s Arrival” feature the song “I’m Like the Bluebird” sung by “The Cookies”: Susan Cella, Nick Corley, Michael Ingram, Betsy Joslyn, Darcy Pulliam, Francis Ruivivar, Whitney Webster, Walter Willison, John Leslie Wolfe
The featured soloists on “Simple (The Interrogation)” are David Lowenstein, Donna Lee Marshall, Harvey Evans, and Francis Ruivivar
