"M-G-M presents an Arthur Freed production"--Container. Betty Wand, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Leslie Caron, Eva Gabor ; M-G-M Studio Orchestra and Chorus ; André Previn, conductor, piano. Vocal prerecordings rehearsed and recorded in Paris, France, July 15-Aug. 5, 1957; orchestra and vocal rerecordings recorded in Culver City, Calif., Sept. 24, 1957-Feb. 19, 1958. Program notes (27 p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container.
Contents:
Main title -- Opening -- Interlude/and There is the future -- Thank heaven for little girls -- Meet Gigi -- Gaston's house -- Armenonville/It's a bore (prelude) -- It's a bore -- After It's a bore (extended version) -- Aunt Alicia -- Parisians introduction -- The Parisians -- Ice skating sequence -- Dissolve Maxim's/Gossip (extended version) -- Introduction to Maxim's waltz (extended version), Waltz at Maxim's (She is not thinking of me) -- It's a bore -- To the inn -- Goodbye Madame -- Bore montage -- The night they invented champagne -- Trouville -- Remember it well --Panting Grandmama -- Lessons -- Upset -- Gaston's soliloquy -- Gigi -- Gaston with flowers -- You never told me -- I'm glad I'm not young anymore -- I'm glad I'm not young anymore (reprise) (extended version) -- Aunt Alicia's march -- Bracelet (extended version) -- Say a prayer for me tonight -- Gigi's big moment -- Second gossip (extended version) -- Waltz at Maxim's, Dance version (extended version) -- Gaston's decision -- Change of heart/end title -- Supplemental: The Parisians (extended version/piano-vocal prerecording) -- The night they invented champagne (piano-vocal prerecording) -- Say a prayer for me tonight (piano-vocal prerecording).
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