Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart - I Love My Wife: A Musical (1977 Original Broadway Cast)

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Music Review: Uneven but fun.
Rating: 4 Stars

However, this makes it sound like I hate the CD. I do not. How could anything penned by Cy Coleman be all bad? The brilliant musical mind that brought us SWEET CHARITY and CITY OF ANGELS could never do ALL wrong with a show, IMHO. And this score has many delights indeed, and not just because of Coleman's bouncy melodies, but also because of Michael Stewart's clever lyrics. (Coleman has quite a knack for picking talented lyricists, just look at Zippel, Fields, and Leigh on his other shows).

The pleasures are many. First off, there's the down-right hilarious barrlehouse "Sexually Free." The show has a strong opening in the number "Friends." The jubilant and (according to the reviews on the booklet) show-stopping "Hey There, Good Times" (no Coleman compilation should be complete without it). But all of the witty words and catchy music comes to an explosive high (pun not intended) in "Everybody Today is Turning On," an hilarious song about the travails of drugs and how they played such a prominent part in society during the time period in which I LOVE MY WIFE was written. However, my absolute favorite song in the show is "Love Revolution," one wife's cry for freedom, with a '70s funk flavor to it. And two great duets worth mentioning are "Someone Wonderful I Missed" and "Lovers on Christmas Eve."

Despite all of the negative things I said above, I constantly find myself pulling out the CD every now and then to listen to "Love Revolution" or "Hey There, Good Times" or "Everybody Today is Turning On" (the latter so I can make an attempt to learn the many words). And the cast, which includes Joanna Gleason (INTO THE WOODS, NICK & NORA) and James Naughton (CHICAGO, CITY OF ANGELS), is top-notch in just about all instances.

So I would suggest buying this CD if you are a musical theatre scholar, as a lot of it is a lot of fun. Although, I am warning, it is very uneven.

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