In 1992, when it had its first recording, Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton's The Scarlet Pimpernel was a concept album vaguely based on the novels of Baroness Oczy, but without a real story and largely constructed as a star vehicle for Linda Eder. Nearly six years later, the cast album of the Broadway show (with a libretto by Knighton) that opened November 9, 1997, is a vast improvement. Six of the 15 vocal numbers have been cut and eight added, providing a much-needed balance of material by beefing up the parts of the villain and the Scarlet Pimpernel himself. The soft rock arrangements have been jettisoned, and there is more of the Les Miserables-like, convincingly theatrical style of original songs such as 'Into the Fire' and 'The Creation of Man.' At the same time, the better ballads from the original, 'You Are My Home' and 'When I Look at You,' have been retained. The singers are up to Wildhorn's rangy demands, even if Christine Andreas is inevitably less distinctive than Eder. The Scarlet Pimpernel still isn't a great work of music or theater, but now it's a legitimate, well-performed musical theater work. (In the fall of 1998, the Broadway production of The Scarlet Pimpernel was extensively revised, so this album may no longer represent it.)
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4 | Christine Andreas / Pamela Burrell / Sandy Rosenberg / Douglas Sills | 04:17 | |
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21 | Melissa Joan Hart / Alison Lory | 01:15 | |
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24 | Christine Andreas / Douglas Sills | 01:15 | |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel | |
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Starring | Richard E. Grant Martin Shaw (series 1) Elizabeth McGovern (series 1) Caroline Carver (series 2) |
Theme music composer | Michal Pavlíček |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Production company(s) | London Films A&E Television Productions BBC Birmingham Productions |
Release | |
Original network | BBC One |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 24 January 1999 – 1 November 2000 |
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a series of televisiondramaprogrammes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set during the French Revolution.
It stars Richard E. Grant as Sir Percy Blakeney, and his alter ego, the eponymous hero. The first series also starred Elizabeth McGovern as his wife Marguerite and Martin Shaw as the Pimpernel's archrival, Paul Chauvelin. Robespierre was played by Ronan Vibert.
It was filmed in the Czech Republic and scored by a Czech composer, Michal Pavlíček.
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Cast[edit]
- Stuart Fox as Monsieur Jouvin
- Sarah Berger as Madame Jouvin
- Dalibor Sipek as The Dauphin
- Suzanne Bertish as La Touraine
- Jonathan Coy as Prince of Wales
- Richard E Grant as Sir Percy Blakeney
- Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Marguerite Blakeney
- Anthony Green as Sir Andrew Foulkes
- Beth Goddard as Lady Suzanne Foulkes
- Jerome Willis as Baron Valdemar
- Martin Shaw as Chauvelin
- Ron Donachie as Mazarini
- Gerard Murphy as Planchet
- Ronan Vibert as Robespierre
- Winter Uhlarik as Cecile
- Karel Roden as Figaro
- Bryce Engstrom as Gaston
- Philip Fox as Auctioneer
- Stephen Churchett as Doorman
- Christopher Fairbank as Fumier
Episodes[edit]
Series 1[edit]
Episode # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate | |
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1 | TBA | 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' | Patrick Lau | Richard Carpenter | 24 January 1999 |
2 | TBA | 'Valentine Gautier' | Patrick Lau | Richard Carpenter | 31 January 1999 |
3 | TBA | 'A King's Ransom' | Edward Bennett | Richard Carpenter | 7 February 1999 |
Series 2[edit]
Episode # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate | |
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1 | TBA | 'Ennui' | Graham Theakston | Matthew Hall | 18 October 2000 |
2 | TBA | 'Friends and Enemies' | Simon Langton | Alan Whiting | 25 October 2000 |
3 | TBA | 'A Good Name' | Simon Langton | Rob Heyland | 1 November 2000 |
Awards[edit]
Caroline Carver won a Royal Television Society Best Actress Award for her performance as Claudette in 'A Good Name'.
External links[edit]
The Scarlet Pimpernel Musical Lyrics
- The Scarlet Pimpernel on IMDb
The Scarlet Pimpernel Musical Album Download Torrent Free
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