Release Date: 30 October 2026
Label: Stage Door
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5055122191131
Genres: Soundtracks Musical
Description
High Button Shoes was the first Broadway musical by composer Jule Styne (Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Funny Girl) and lyricist Sammy Cahn (Three Coins in the Fountain, All the Way, High Hopes, Call Me Irresponsible, Love and Marriage, Come Fly with Me, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!). Following a successful Broadway production in 1947, London in 1948 and multiple productions in the decades immediately following, the show and its tuneful score has almost been 'forgotten', until an celebrated revival in 2026 by 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: "Although Frank Sinatra and Doris Day recorded the 'hit' songs from High Button Shoes, only a handful of numbers from the original 1947 Broadway cast were preserved on primitive 78rpm records, giving little indication of the sheer scope of the full score. We are honoured that the Styne and Cahn estates gave Guildford School of Acting permission to record a new cast album featuring the exceptional vocalists of our 2026 production of High Button Shoes. Following the success of our 2025 cast album of Grab Me A Gondola, we are delighted to collaborate once again with Stage Door Records to release this disc, preserving the complete score of High Button Shoes for future performers, scholars and musical theatre enthusiasts".
This professionally recorded cast album preserves the full score of High Button Shoes:
The BA (Hons) Musical Theatre course at Guildford School of Acting is situated on the campus of University of Surrey and is one of the leading Musical Theatre schools in the world. Following its 2026 production of High Button Shoes, 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.
Tracklisting
2025 Cast Recording
2026 Cast Recording
Shani Wallis
Gloria Hunniford
Original Broadway Cast
Moira Danis
Original London Cast & George Formby
Various Artists
2026 Cast Recording
Sierra Boggess; Nathaniel Hackmann; Louise Dearman; David Seadon Young; Sinfonia of London; John Wi
Original London Cast
Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews
Anne Sofie von Otter; Salon Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin; Adam Benzwi
Irene Theorin; Jennifer Holloway; Tanja Ariane Baumgartner; Nikolai Schukoff; Iain Paterson; Bergen
Maria Bayo, Renalto Palumbo
Weiss/Nomos-Quartet
