Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre
| Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre | ||||
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| Studio album by Various artists | ||||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | 1963, Los Angeles | |||
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| Length | 2:50:27 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Sonny Burke | |||
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Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre is a series of four 12" long playing vinyl albums recorded in Los Angeles in 1963. The four albums were sold through mail order as a box set in 1963, then released separately to retail in 1964. They were conceived and produced by Frank Sinatra. Morris Stoloff was the musical director and the A&R Director was Sonny Burke.
The four discs feature the scores of four popular Broadway musicals of the time – namely Finian's Rainbow (1947), Kiss Me, Kate (1948), South Pacific (1949), and Guys and Dolls (1950) – as performed by various Reprise artists.
The "Guys and Dolls" album was issued on CD in 1992 when the musical itself was enjoying a revival. All the albums were re-released in a box set on September 26, 2000.