A Class Act - A Musical About Musicals (2001 Original Cast)
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Brand: CAST-BROADWAYPerformer: Julia Murney
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2001-02-20
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
- Light On My Feet
- Fountain In The Garden
- One More Beautiful Song
- Friday At Four / Bobby's Song
- Charm Song
- Paris Through The Window
- Mona
- Making Up Ways
- Under Separate Cover
- Gauguin's Shoes
- Follow Your Star
- Better
- Scintillating Sophie
- Next Best Thing To Love
- Broadway Boogie Woogie
- One (Excerpt From A Chorus Line)/Better (Reprise)/I Choose You/Light On My Feet (Reprise)
- Say Something Funny
- When The Dawn Breaks
- Self Portrait
Music reviews of A Class Act - A Musical About Musicals (2001 Original Cast)
Music Review: OUT OF THE TRUNK AND ONTO THE STAGE-FINALLY
Rating: 5 Stars
The Manhatan Theater Club's cast recording of A CLASS ACT is delicious. It is heartfelt, funny, lyrical and warm...things that many modern musicals are not! The action begins on stage of the Shubert Theater in 1988, during the run of A CHORUS LINE where the urn holding the remains of lyricist Ed Kleban are placed on stage and the friends still in his favor at the time of his death, begin to gather en memorium. No matter where the show goes, to the mental hospital where Kleban once spent time, to the Toronto theater where he was working with and fired by John Gielgud, to the love of his life's lab, his remains remain lit down stage left. Having seen (and worshipped) the transferred-to-Broadway production, and without meaning to take anything away from this CD, my small complaint is that I find it slightly incomplete, in the way that parts of "The Montage"were omitted from A CHORUS LINE's recording. Most omissions are in the dialogue (there is still plenty) which drives the story along. A major source of joy in ACA was the homage to ACL which centered on Kleban's relationships with Michael Bennett and Marvin Hamlisch. Gone is Kleban's first meeting with Bennett which sets up the song "Broadway Boogie Woogie" and gone is much of the underscoring which was filled with hints of melodies that became ACL. Long ago, I decided I would stop seeing regional productions and tours of ACL because it's become a caricature of itself and I prefer my memories. ACA is like adding a footnote to that milestone show, like visiting an old friend. Consequently, I missed the small cuts that showed bits of the original choreography being created. I missed the gleeful dialogue where Bennett insists the lyric to "One" be changed from "one fabulous sensation" because it was redundant! I missed Kleban's delicious "GOTCHA" and the way it showed his wicked and witty side! Another example of a scene I would have liked to have recorded, just for the memory jolt it would provide, was the scene after "Paris Through the Window" where Kleban's mentor humbly and beautifully recognizes, then acknowledges, his student's talent. This show was full of such fine acting moments and I would have liked to have had a few more of them preserved, since one job of a cast recording is to serve as a memory booster. That said, this recording is superb. "Mona" (Nancy Anderson) sounds as pert, sweet and sexy as her number was, and Sophie (Randy Graff) comes across every bit as warm and genuine as she did on stage. I loved Bobby (David Hubbard) whether he was an goofy hippie, eager best friend, or manic Michael Bennett. and although I ADORED the understudy David Burstein, I would have to be psychotically nit-picky not to love Lonny Price, the co-author of the book, along with Linda Klein. It's corny to say, but your heart truly sings along with "One More Beautiful Song". Its honesty is child-like and amazing and the reverential feeling hits so fast! I also defy anyone not to be charmed by the simple joy of "Paris Through the Window." For those who have not seen the show, this CD accomplishes the second thing a cast album should. It stands alone as a work where everyone can enjoy its lyricism, wit and charm. I ESPECIALLY love the fact that this is a biographical work. There really is a Kleban Foundation, created with royalties from A CHORUS LINE which gives grants to "promising lyricists and librettists" and the final will and testament read at the end of the play (and alluded to throughout) truly is Ed Kleban's. (Or so say the producers on an on-line message board) As one of the people who paid a great deal of money to be in this dark room in a central part of town, and who shelled out $20 for this CD, I can only cheer loudly and I can't help but cry, weeks after the fact!
Description of A Class Act - A Musical About Musicals (2001 Original Cast)
No Description Available.Genre: Original Cast Recordings
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-FEB-2001
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