Back before their work on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid, the songwriting duo Howard Ashman and Alan Menken collaborated on a far more atypical work. Their first musical in 1979 was an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. It's the story of a millionaire with a conscience, who decides to give away his fortune to the needy inhabitants of a small town of Rosewater, Indiana. His generosity not only attracts the poor and forgotten, but also invariably, the greedy and the conniving. The CD package includes a 28-page full-color booklet with complete lyrics, production photos, and essays by director Michael Mayer and Thomas Schumacher, President of the Disney Theatrical Group.
7 Thirty Miles from the Banks of the Ohio / Look Who's Here
8 Cheese Nips
9 The Rosewater Foundation (Reprise II)
10 Since You Came to This Town
11 A Poem By William Blake
12 The Rhode Island Tango
13 Eliot / Sylvia
14 Plain Clean Average Americans
15 A Firestorm Consuming Indianapolis
16 Dear Ophelia (Reprise)
17 I, Eliot Rosewater
Back before their work on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid, the songwriting duo Howard Ashman and Alan Menken collaborated on a far more atypical work. Their first musical in 1979 was an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. It's the story of a millionaire with a conscience, who decides to give away his fortune to the needy inhabitants of a small town of Rosewater, Indiana. His generosity not only attracts the poor and forgotten, but also invariably, the greedy and the conniving. The CD package includes a 28-page full-color booklet with complete lyrics, production photos, and essays by director Michael Mayer and Thomas Schumacher, President of the Disney Theatrical Group.
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