Christiane Noll - Broadway Love Story

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Music Review: 14 Scenes - One Spectacular Show
Rating: 5 Stars

After hearing Christiane's performance in Jekyll and Hyde, I picked up a couple of other discs, Sondheim at the Movies, which featured Ms. Noll performing a song entitled Sand and another recording, The Burt Bacharach Album in which she sings One Less Bell to Answer. As a result of her exceptional vocals on all three recordings, I anxiously awaited her solo debut.

What impressed me most about her CD A Broadway Love Story, is that it is a compilation of songs, all from Broadway shows, that tell the story of a love affair - from start to finish and back to wiser beginnings.

Some of the reviews I've read indicate that many of the songs are not particularly noteworthy. It seems clear to me that choosing songs from Broadway productions to tell a love story would be a challenging task and if some don't happen to come from popular Broadway shows, well...

And while the shows may not be familiar to many, I'd hardly call Stephen Sondheim, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, John Kander and Fred Ebb, and Marvin Hamlisch "unknown" composers.

I love this CD. And I love what Christiane has done with these marvelous songs. It takes more than a pretty voice to carry this kind of project; it takes an ability to act as well. Each song is like a mini-show all its own and combined they tell a complete story. And quite frankly, isn't that what a Broadway musical sets out to achieve?

I highly recommend this terrific CD produced by Bruce Kimmel, who also produced Sondheim at the Movies and The Burt Bacharach Album.

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