DARLING OF THE DAY

SIDE ONE

Overture (Orchestra) (4:02)

He’s a Genius (Peter Woodthorpe, Vincent Price & Charles Welch) (3:56)

To Get Out of the World Alive (Price) (2:45)

It’s Enough to Make a Lady Fall in Love (Patricia Routledge) (3:35)

A Gentlemen’s Gentleman (Routledge, Price & Company) (3:00)

Let’s See What Happens (Routledge) (2:55)

I’ve Got a Rainbow Working For Me (Price & Company) (3:00)

SIDE TWO

That Something Extra Special (Routledge) (2:50)

Money, Money, Money (Teddy Green & Company) (1:50)

Panache (Woodthorpe) (3:15)

What Makes a Marriage Merry (Routledge, Price & Company) (2:53)

Not on Your Nellie (Routledge & Company) (4:33)

Sunset Tree (Price & Routledge) (3:40)

Butler in the Abbey (Price & Company) (3:02)

Finale (Company) (1:12)

Darling of the Day is set in the England of 1905 - Edwardian and elegant - and its the story of a great and painfuly shy painter named Priam Farll (Vincent Price) who is summoned back to England, after 20 years as a virtual recluse in the South Seas, to be knighted by his King. After the death of his butler, Henry Leek, Farll assumed his identity falls for a young widow called Alice Challice (Patricia Routledge) and they marry and settled in lower middle-class Putney. Life becomes complicated for Priam and Alice when his identity is unveiled and he ends up in court. However when Farll warns that if there's a Butler in the Abbey the social structure of Britain will be shaken, the judge hastily rules that Leek must remain Leek.

Based on Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive

Also starring Brenda Forbes, Peter Woodthorpe and Teddy Green.

George Abbott Theatre, January 27, 1968 (32 performances)

Composed by Jule Styne

Lyrics by EY Harburg

Recorded in Webster Hall, New York City

...thoroughly delightful. It has charm, tunefulness, humour, imagination, a good book, impeccable taste and a handsome production. Mr Price is convincing and charming as the artist in hiding... a superior musical comedy! (Richard Watts, The New York Post)

While the show folded after 32 performances, at a loss of $700,000, this RCA cast album has posthumously become a collector's item. Don't throw it away!