These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs: producer Michael Codron (1/2)
in Musicals, Producers, Theatre People
24th July 2011
THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS: MICHAEL CODRON (1/2)
The veteran West End producer talks to Mark Shenton about his career with the leading playwrights of his age, Michael Frayn and Simon Gray included, and shares some melancholy favourites. Recorded at Jermyn Street Theatre, London as part of a special week-long series, curated by Shenton, in aid of the Theatrical Guild. The featured singer is West End leading lady Caroline Sheen. Recorded: 1 June 2011.
Michael Frayn called you ‘A prince among producers’… ‘A fiver well spent, I think!’
Track listing:
Kosma/Prévert, Les Feuilles mortes” (sung by Yves Montand)
Johnny Mercer, Autumn Leaves and Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson, September Song (sung by Caroline Sheen)
Queen, It’s a Kind of Magic
Tony Bennett, For Once in My Life
Stephen Sondheim, Losing My Mind (from Follies, sung by Julia McKenzie)
Jerry Herman, Song on the Sand -(from La Cages Aux Folles, sung by Douglas Hodge)
Stanley Myers, Cavatine
