More Than You Deserve : Listen here, group!

Here we have audio recordings related to the musical More Than You Deserve - a demo tape, a recording of the workshop production, and audio recordings of three shows as performed during its main run at the Newman Theater - so you can hear the evolution of this show from start to end. Please excuse the sound quality of the live shows, these are the only recordings we have.

If you try to listen to the full show, it can be difficult to follow - especially because the cast is small and most actors were playing multiple roles. So, as you listen, take a look at the programs and take a look through the gallery.

Demo tape

Download the Demo tape (91.9MB zip file)

Contents:

  1. Water Seller's Song : vocals - Barry Keating
  2. Smoke Song : vocals - Barry Keating / Jim Steinman / Ursuline Kairson / Andre De Shields / Johanna Albrecht
  3. Song Of The Golden Egg : vocals - Kim Milford
  4. Song Of The Gods : vocals - Barry Keating / Johanna Albrecht
  5. More Than You Deserve : vocals - Jim Steinman
  6. Souvenirs : vocals - Jim Steinman
  7. Give Me The Simple Life : vocals - Barry Keating / Jim Steinman / Meat Loaf
  8. Oh What A War : vocals - Barry Keating / Jim Steinman
  9. Go Go Guerrillas : vocals - Barry Keating / Jim Steinman

Note: three tracks - water seller, smoke song and gods - are remnants from a production of Bertolt Brecht's "Good Woman Of Szechuan" which Jim and Barry put on in 1972 with Jim writing the music. The rest were demos specifically for this show. Nobody actually wrote down the credits for these demo tracks, so they are best guess / from memory.

Workshop production

For the credits, see the program.

You will notice the music is really stripped down (just piano and guitar) as the workshop was a try-out preview for the show. The song "Orphan River" never made it to the Newman Theater version of the show.

Download the Full Show (267MB zip file) or just the songs (99MB zip file).

Song list:

  1. Act 1 Overture
  2. Give Me the Simple Life
  3. Could She Be the One
  4. Where Did It Go
  5. Mama You Better Watch Out for Your Daughter
  6. Oh What a War
  7. More Than You Deserve
  8. Oh What a War (Reprise)
  9. Act 2 Overture
  10. To Feel So Needed
  11. Go Go Guerrillas
  12. Where Did It Go (Reprise)
  13. Orphan River
  14. Song of the Golden Egg
  15. Give Me the Simple Life (Reprise)

Newman Theater production

For the credits, see the program.

The show's main run was from November 21, 1973 through to January 13th, 1974, with its official premiere on January 3rd 1974. The song "If Only" is only in the Dec 28th 1973 preview of the show, it was dropped in later performances.

December 28th - Download Full Show (267MB zip file) or just the songs (138MB zip file).

January 13th (Matinee) - Download Full Show (335MB zip file) or just the songs (121MB zip file).

January 13th (Evening) - Download Full Show (342MB zip file) or just the songs (128MB zip file).

For the show's final performance - January 13th evening - Major Dillon was played by Stephen Collins.