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Original AFT Cast
GUYS ON ICE Original Cast Recording
Genres: Folk, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. The Wishing Hole (Fred Alley and Doug Mancheski)
2. The Guy from TV (Doug Mancheski)
3. Ode to a Snowmobile Suit (Fred Alley and Doug Mancheski)
4. Everything is New (Fred Alley)
5. The King (Doug Mancheski, Fred Alley and James Valcq)
6. Things Ain't Like They Used to Be (James Valcq)
7. The One That Got Away (Fred Alley)
8. Fish is the Miracle Food (Fred Alley and Doug Mancheski)
9. What's Mine is Yours (James Valcq)
10. Your Last Day on Earth (Fred Alley and Doug Mancheski)
11. When on Thin Ice (James Valcq, Doug Mancheski and Fred Alley)

CD Details

All Artists: Original AFT Cast
Title: GUYS ON ICE Original Cast Recording
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: guysonice records
Original Release Date: 12/1/1999
Release Date: 12/1/1999
Album Type: Cast Recording
Genres: Folk, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Easy Listening, Musicals
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 660355399121

Synopsis

Product Description

This CD contains an entire performance of the musical hit, GUYS ON ICE, as performed in Door County, Wisconsin in the fall of 1999. At that time, the show was a one-act. (It was expanded into two acts in 2000.) The recording features the late playwright Fred Alley as Lloyd, Doug Mancheski as Marvin, and James Valcq playing the piano and appearing as Ernie the Moocher. Alley and Valcq created the musical of THE SPITFIRE GRILL.

CD Reviews

Fun, offbeat show

Donald E. Fulton | Stoneham, MA USA | 01/14/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"An ice fishing musical? A show about two guys in a hut on the ice? The best Wisconsin musical ever? Surprise, both the show and songs are pretty good.

Sure it's a little cornball with terse men (in the Lake Wobegon tradition) and lots of ice fishing jokes, but it's also clever, fresh, with fun, listenable songs, many of which have a depth and sweetness as unexpected parallels are drawn between ice fishing and life. The CD is not just the songs, it's (most of) the show. It was recorded during a performance so you hear the audience laughing at the jokes making it more fun. Recommended.

Minor quibble -- the CD description and liner notes claim it is the whole show, but I recently saw the show at a local theater in its New England premier and the beginning of the second act (circa 2007) is missing from the CD.

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