FIRST IMPRESSIONS

“Four months after ‘Virginia Woolf’ opened, the original cast made a studio recording of the play. Columbia Records released it as a pricey four-LP set that went out of print a few years later and was never reissued–until now. Masterworks Broadway has finally released ‘Virginia Woolf,’ both as a digital download and as a two-CD set. What’s more, it’s even more of a rarity than you might suppose. The ‘Virginia Woolf’ album is still, so far as I know, the only uncut commercial sound recording of a major 20th-century English-language play to have been made by the entire original cast…”