The Broadway show opened on March 26, 1964, at the
Winter Garden Theater, and the cast album was recorded in a one-day session in early April, then released one week later by
Capitol Records. Streisand performs twelve of the album's seventeen tracks, and the album marked the first time a Streisand recording was not released through
Columbia. Streisand was already a successful singer at the time, with her prior three studio albums charting in the Billboard top 10.
The Broadway show opened on March 26, 1964, at the
Winter Garden Theater, and the cast album was recorded in a one-day session in early April, then released one week later by
Capitol Records. Streisand performs twelve of the album's seventeen tracks, and the album marked the first time a Streisand recording was not released through
Columbia. Streisand was already a successful singer at the time, with her prior three studio albums charting in the Billboard top 10.