Songs from Composers Beth Lawrence and Norman Thalheimer
Writing music for this Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe was a wild and wonderful experience! ‘Marilyn, An American Fable’ ran at the Minskoff in 1983, and although the critics didn’t love it, audiences did.
During the writing of the show, a lot of the songs were modified to fit the ever-changing book. Many times, arrangers would change the chords, cut bridges, or just generally re-arrange the whole song to accommodate the script. I wanted to honor these songs by restoring them to their original chordal structures and arrangements, while also recording songs that were written for the show but never used; were in the show then taken out; or were in the show but altered.
My intention with this recording was to keep the songs very PURE - no big orchestrations. And so, WHAT YOU WILL HEAR is SIMPLY this:
Beth Lawrence - Composer/Vocals
Norman Thalheimer - Composer/Piano
Nyle Steiner (inventor of EVI/EWI) - Sweetening/Evi
I hope you enjoy these songs from ‘Marilyn, An American Fable’
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Original Playbill from November, 1983!