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Columbia Masterworks
arranged by [dance arrangements] Gerald Alters
arranged by [vocal arrangements], music director Robert DeCormier
artwork Jack Davis
directed by Cyril Ritchard
lyrics by, written-by [story by] E.Y. Harburg
music by Jacques Offenbach
orchestrated by Hershy Kay
orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett
producer Goddard Lieberson
vocals [chief of state / pluto] Cyril Ritchard
vocals [diana] Janice Rule
vocals [kinesias] Bruce Yarnell
vocals [lysistrata] Dran Seitz
vocals [myhrrina] Lu Leonard
written-by [book by] Fred Saidy
written-by [book by] Henry Myers
Original Broadway Cast recording. Also released in stereo as Columbia Masterworks KOS 2050.

Musical with a story by E.Y. Harburg (with a bow to Aristophanes and Bulfinch) set to music from the operettas of Jacques Offenbach. Opened at the Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Conn. on February 18, 1961, and in New York at the Martin Beck Theatre on April 3.