GSA’s cast recording of 'Grab Me A Gondola' reaches #1 in Amazon’s charts!
Guildford School of Acting (GSA) has produced a limited edition cast recording of its 2025 production, Grab Me A Gondola. The recording is only available as a physical CD through Amazon and, in less than a week of its pre-release, the cast recording has already hit Amazon’s top place for Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Soundtracks and Cabaret!
Grab Me A Gondola is instantly recognisable amongst musical theatre circles but this hugely successful international 1950s’ British musical comedy by James Gilbert and Julian More had largely been forgotten, until GSA’s acclaimed revival in 2025.
Stewart Nicholls, Associate Professor and Programme Leader of GSA’s BA (Hons) Musical Theatre course comments:
"The original 1956 London cast recording is a complete delight, but due to restrictions of a long-playing vinyl disc, several songs were severely truncated and others remaining unrecorded, so we are thrilled and are proud to have recorded the complete score of Grab Me A Gondola with the 'Musical Theatre Stars of Tomorrow' from our BA Musical Theatre course. We are delighted to collaborate with Stage Door Records to release this disc and bring back this delightful British musical to an international platform".
This professionally recorded cast album preserves the complete score of Grab Me A Gondola:
- Premiѐre recordings of two songs, four reprises, Finale, Bows and a Ballet
- Five songs previously recorded in truncated form now recorded in their entirety
- Extensive sleeve notes and synopsis
- Multiple production photographs.
Building on a 90-year heritage and reputation as one of the leading musical theatre schools in the world, our BA (Hons) Musical Theatre alumni perform in productions in the West End, Broadway and across the world every night.
A team from the BA (Hons) Musical Theatre course collaborated with students from the University of Surrey's world-famous Music and Sound Recording (Tonmeister) BSc/BMus course to record and preserve the complete score of GSA’s revival of Grab Me A Gondola.
The recording was made possible by generous donations from: ATG Productions and the University of Surrey’s internal Arts and Humanities Impact Acceleration Account & Teaching and Learning Funds.
Grab Me A Gondola will be released on 12 September. You can order your copy here.
Production photos: Steve Gregson
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