Release Date: 12 September 2025
Label: Stage Door
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5055122191100
Genres: Soundtracks Musical
Description
Grab Me a Gondola may possibly be the most amusing title ever created for a Musical! Although instantly recognisable in Musical Theatre circles, this hugely successful international 1950s British Musical Comedy by James Gilbert and Julian More has all but been forgotten, until an acclaimed revival in 2025 by the Guildford School of Acting.
Stewart Nicholls, Associate Professor and Programme Leader of the Ba (Hons) Musical Theatre Course at Guildford School of Acting/University of Surrey comments:
"The original 1956 London cast recording is a complete delight, but due to restrictions of a long-playing vinyl disc, several songs were severely truncated and others remaining unrecorded, so we are thrilled and are proud to have recorded the complete score of Grab Me a Gondola with the 'Musical Theatre Stars of Tomorrow' from our BA Musical Theatre course. We are delighted to collaborate with Stage Door Records to release this disc and bring back this delightful British Musical to an international platform".
This professionally recorded cast album preserves the complete score of Grab Me a Gondola:
The BA (Hons) Musical Theatre course at Guildford School of Acting is situated on the campus of University of Surrey and is arguably the leading Musical Theatre school in the world. Following its production of Grab Me a Gondola, the BA (Hons) Musical Theatre course collaborated with University of Surrey's world-famous Tonmeisterr BSc/BMus course to record and preserve the complete score of the Musical. The recording was made possible by generous donations from: ATG Productions and University of Surrey internal Arts and Humanities Impact Acceleration Account & Teaching and Learning Funds.
Tracklisting
Tommy Steele
2025 Cast Recording
Gloria Hunniford
Original Broadway Cast
Moira Danis
Max Bygraves
Original London Cast
The Nolans
2025 Cast Recording
Scarlett Strallen; Jamie Parker; Alun Armstrong; Malcolm Sinclair; Laurence Kilsby; Julia McKenzie;
Original Soundtrack
Various Artists
Original Off Broadway Cast
Original Revival London Cast
Original West End Cast Recording
Original London Cast
