David Evans, Winnie Holzman - Birds Of Paradise (1987 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
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Artist: David Evans, Winnie HolzmanEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1999-04-13
Music Label: Jay Records
Soundtracks:
- Act One: So Many Nights
- Act One: Every Day Is Night
- Act One: Somebody
- Act One: Coming True
- Act One: It's Only A Play
- Act One: She's Out There
- Act One: Birds Of Paradise
- Act One: Imagining You
- Act Two: Penguins Must Sing
- Act Two: You're Mine
- Act Two: Things I Can't Forget
- Act Two: After Opening Night
- Act Two: Chekhov
- Act Two: Something New
Music reviews of Birds Of Paradise (1987 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Melodic, inventive score
Rating: 4 Stars
This is a great little show with a fun little score. It's not a classic, by any means, and some of the lyrics are not great, but the music manages to stay inventive and pleasing throughout. And, of course, any musical version of Chekov is going to appeal to me (although perhaps not to the general public.)
The songs are very much 80s pop meets musical theatre, in the same vein as Baby or other Maltby/Shire works. Most of the songs are fairly conventional (the opening number that sets up all the characters and their situations, the establishing number for the antagonist, the unrequited love ballad, the "we've learned so much" finale, although in the show, the song is kind of turned on its head in a way that you don't get from the cast album), but they are superior examples of their kind. What works best in this show is the gleeful inanity of Homer's musical-within-a-musical, which we sample in "Penguins Must Sing," and when the authors come up with something original, not suggested by The Sea Gull in any way, as in the song "Chekov," which starts "Chekov's life was miserable. Chekov had TB. Chekov suffered for his art...like me!" And yes, it gets better from there.
So basically, I like the score quite a bit. The show is perhaps not up to the high standards of the score, but it still holds up quite well onstage. I had the opportunity to direct this show, and I can say that the book doesn't read all that well, but much of it plays beautifully. I highly recommend this CD to the curious.
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