Taboo (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
- Freak / Ode to Attention Seekers
- Stranger in This World
- Safe in the City
- Dress to Kill
- Genocide Peroxide
- I'll Have You All
- Sexual Confusion
- Pretty Lies
- Guttersnipe
- Love Is A Question Mark
- Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
- Church of the Poison Mind / Karma Chameleon
- Everything Taboo
- Talk Amongst Yourselves
- The Fame Game
- I See Through You
- Ich Bin Kunst
- Petrified
- Out Of Fashion
- Il Adore
- Come on in From the Outside
Music reviews of Taboo (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Sadly Maligned Broadway Flop Yields a Fine Show Album Well Worth Saving
Rating: 4 Stars
In hindsight, it seems ironic that the infamous Rosie O'Donnell-produced 2003 Broadway flop has left behind such an infectious cast recording full of heart and humor. Anyone who has seen Dori Berinstein's recent 2007 documentary, "Showbusiness: The Road to Broadway" knows the myriad of struggles faced in mounting this elaborate production. My understanding is that the chief problem was Charles Busch's viewpoint-challenged book, which is of little relevance when it comes to the recording itself. What is left here is a stellar cast whose characters inhabit the London club underworld, the most noteworthy being Boy George whose meteoric rise was eventually followed by a career free-fall. However, his more significant role here is as the show's composer and lyricist, and this is where he truly triumphs.
The disc opens strongly with the one-two punch of the extravagant cabaret number, "Freak/Ode to Attention Seekers" led by Raúl Esparza's dazzling vocal turn, and Euan Morton's poignant crooning of "Stranger in This World", which nicely sums up the Boy's emotional solitude at the outset. As Boy George, Morton offers a plaintive singing voice spotlighted on the gently rolling "Pretty Lies", the rhythmic pop of "Guttersnipe", and the edgier sarcasm of "The Fame Game". It seems inevitable that a few familiar Culture Club hits are included, and Morton approximates the Boy's sound reasonably well on "Church of the Poison Mind/Karma Chameleon" and of course, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?". The wildly talented Esparza plays the campy, cross-dressing Philip Sallon, the show's narrator, with aplomb, and the show's shining moment is his with the heartbreaking Act II ballad, "Petrified".
Under his real name (George O'Dowd), Boy George himself has three diverse tracks playing flamboyant performance artist Leigh Bowery - the comic romp, "I'll Have You All"; the eighties-dance fire-up, "Everything Taboo"; and the Teutonic dirge, "Ich Bin Kunst". As cross-dressing pop singer Marilyn, Jeffrey Carlson growls his way through "Genocide Peroxide", while Cary Shields rocks out on "I See Through You". Sarah Uriarte Berry shines on the funky "Safe in the City" and the especially beautiful "Il Adore". As Big Sue, Liz McCarthy has a belter's voice which she shows off on "Talk Amongst Yourselves" and the catchy "Sexual Confusion" in which she duets snappily with Esparza. The cast comes out in full force on the fitting conclusion, the gospel-tinged "Come On In from the Outside". If the multitude of characters came across as rather perplexing onstage, it seems to work much better within the context of a recording.
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