Smellin' of Vanilla (Bamboo Cage) -- House of Flowers (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Smellin' of Vanilla (Bamboo Cage) · Ada Moore · Dolores Harper · Enid Mosier · Original Broadway Cast of House of Flowers

*** Featuring the three-piece steel band trio of Roderick Clavery, Austin Stoker aka Alphonso Marshall and Michael Alexander

House of Flowers (Original Broadway Cast Recording) ℗ Originally Released 1955 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Released on: 2001-01-01 Composer: Harold Arlen

Lyricist: Truman Capote

Associated Performer: House of Flowers Orchestra

Conductor, Unknown: Jerry Arlen

Producer: Goddard Lieberson

Full ORIGINAL CAST (in order of appearance):

Tulip: DOLORES HARPER
Gladiola: ADA MOORE
Pansy: ENID MOSIER
Do: Winston George Henriques
Don't: Solomon Earl Green
Mother: Miriam Burton
Ottilie, alias Violet: DIAHANN CARROLL
Madame Fleur: PEARL BAILEY
Captain Jonas: RAY WALSTON
Madame Tango: JUANITA HALL
Mamselle Ibo-Lele: Pearl Reynolds
The Sisters Meringue: Leu Comacho, Margot Small
Mamselle Honolulu: Mary Mon Toy
Mamselle Cigarette: Glory Van Scott
Royal: RAWN SPEARMAN
The Champion: GEOFFREY HOLDER
Chief of Police: Don Redman
Carmen: Carmen De Lavallade
Alvin: Alvin Ailey
Monsieur Jamison: Dino DiLuca
The Houngan: FREDERICK O'NEAL
Baron of the Cemetary: GEOFFREY HOLDER
Duchess of the Sea: Miriam Burton.

Steel Band: Michael Alexander, Roderick Clavery, Alphonso Marshall.

Townspeople: Joseph Comadore, Hubert Dilworth, Phillip Hepburn, Louis Johnson, Mary Louise, Audrey Mason, Arthur Mitchell, Walter Nicks, Albert Popwell, Sabu, Herbert Stubbs.

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