Disney's On the Record - A New Musical Revue (2004 Original Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Music Label: Walt Disney Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
- Whistle While You Work/Give A Little Whistle
- Can You Feel The Love Tonight/I Won't Say (I'm Not In Love)/Let's Get Together/Belle
- Someday My Prince Will Come / Once Upon A Dream
- The Walrus And The Carpenter / I Wan'na Be Like You
- Prince Ali
- I Just Can't Wait To Be King / Lavender Blue
- When She Loved Me
- Minnie's Yoo-Hoo
- Heigh-Ho
- The Work Song
- I'm Wishing/One Song
- You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!
- So This Is Love
- A Whole New World
- The Second Star To The Right
- Under The Sea
- Part Of Your World
- Poor Unfortunate Souls
- Kiss The Girl
- Reflection
- Bella Notte/Les Poissons
- Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat/The Siamese Cat Song/The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room
- He's A Tramp
- Higitus Figitus/Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious/Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee/Following The Leader/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/The Dwarf's Yodel Song (The Silly Song)/Hakuna Matata/Mickey Mouse March
- Let's Go Fly A Kite
- I Will Go Sailing No More/Just Around The Riverbend/Strangers Like Me
- Colors Of The Wind
- When I See An Elephant Fly
- Look Out For Mister Stork
- Pink Elephants On Parade
- Baby Mine
- The Bells Of Notre Dame
- Out There
- Something There/Beauty And The Beast
- A Change In Me
- Be Our Guest
- Will The Sun Ever Shine Again
- You've Got A Friend In Me
- If I Never Knew You
- You'll Be In My Heart
- When You Wish Upon A Star
- A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (Reprise)
- The Bare Necessities/A Spoonful Of Sugar/It's A Small World
- Mickey Mouse March/Colonel Hathi's March/Cruella De Vil/A Spoonful Of Sugar/Winnie The Pooh/I've Got No Strings
Music reviews of Disney's On the Record - A New Musical Revue (2004 Original Cast)
Music Review: A Fresh New Twist on the Disney's Classics!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
This review is totally based on what I heard from the CD for I have never seen the show or learned about its synopsis before. This might be kinda long so bear with me here.
First of all, I have to say that I own most of Disney's soundtrack albums. I also own many Disney's compilation albums so sometimes I got a bit tired that they still released those same old songs again and again. I don't buy them anymore since I had most of those songs already. But this album is something different!!!
BASIC FACT:
The album is an original cast recording of a Disney's musical revue in 2005. (It never made it to Broadway due to a bad plot and storyline.) The album consists of 45 tracks on 2 CDs with over 70 Disney songs mentioned. Some of them are included as part of a medley and some are just snippet of songs to link to others. Some people tend to hate this idea of cutting down their favourite songs to a short piece but what I feel from this CDs is it makes the whole thing seems so fresh and new. It's kinda fun to listen to how they connect and merge the songs together. The orchestration, to me, was fresh and really nice. It gives you a jolly feeling and lifts you up every time you put it on.
THE SONGS:
The song list spans over 70 years of Disney. The Oldest song is "Minnie's Yoo-Hoo" from The Shindig (1930) and the newest is "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again" from Home on the Range (2004). And in between are familiar songs from famous Disney's classics such as Snow White, Dumbo, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story and so on... All the songs are separated into 15 recording sessions with separated prologue, entr'acte, finale and exit music. Stand outs are Session 8 (A.K.A. Silly Symphony) which is a medley of "no-meaning" songs such as "Supercalifragilisticexpialidotious", "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and more. Session 4 about flying is quite beautifully arranged. There are 2 special sessions dedicated to The Little Mermaid and Dumbo. The unmentioned sessions are also nice in their own style as well.
THE CAST:
There are 4 main performers, 2 guys and 2 girls, starting with Ashley Brown, she rocks!!! I saw her as Belle on Broadway and that is the reason why I bought this album. For those who don't know, she is the original Mary Poppins on Broadway. In this album, she plays a younger girl. Her songs are pretty much the princess classics from the opening "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" to Ariel's "Part of Your World" and from Mulan's "Reflections" to Cinderella's "So This Is Love". All her songs are delivered wonderfully. But the most impressive song is "A Change in Me" which is a new song added to the stage version of Beauty and the Beast. I think her version is the best (better than Susan Egan's, in my opinion) and the song is worth buying the album for.
Moving on to the younger guy, he is Andrew Samonsky. His voice comes out as a young teen kind of sound which sounds really nice. His outstanding performance is in the newly arranged jazzy version of "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat". This song is really cool and is a true showstopper!
The older lady of the recording is sung by Kaitlin Hopkins. She has more of mature sound which is very contrast to Ashley's clear soprano. She gets most of the "less-famous" songs but she handed them fairly. Her big solos are "Poor Unfortunate Souls", "Colors of the Wind" and "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again". She has a few duet with Ashley. "I'm Wishing/One Song" is stunning while "He's a Tramp" can be a bit boring.
The last performer of the album is Brian Sutherland who portrays the older man. He has a nice warm baritone which suits his songs well. Check out his "When You Wish Upon a Star".
The four performers get to sing some duets and quartets with each other. Standout quartet numbers are the opening medley of "Whistle While You Work/Give a Little Whistle" and the "Silly Symphony".
As for the ensemble, I think they help add a nice touch to the album especially in the Dumbo medley and the multi-language version of "Be Our Guest".
THE BOOKLET:
The album comes with a nice colorful booklet with information about all the songs, a note from the director, cast list and plenty of nice pictures on and off stage. But no lyrics.
BOTTOM LINE:
If you love Disney, this is the album to get. Whatever people say about the show, don't listen to them. You are not buying the DVD of the show. You are buying a recording and the music on this album will surely make you smile with joy. Buy it and enjoy!!!
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