Original Broadway Cast - 13 (Double Disc Including Karaoke)
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Artist: Original Broadway CastComposer: Jason Robert Brown
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2009-11-23
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 13 / Becoming A Man
- The Lamest Place In The World
- Hey Kendra
- Get Me What I Need
- Opportunity
- What It Means To Be A Friend
- All Hail The Brain / Terminal Illness
- Getting Ready
- Any Minute
- Being A Geek
- Bad Bad News
- Tell Her
- It Can't Be True
- If That's What It Is
- A Little More Homework
- Brand New You
- 13 (Single)
- A Little More Homework (Single)
- 13 / Becoming A Man (Karaoke)
- The Lamest Place In The World (Karaoke)
- Get Me What I Need (Karaoke key of C)
- Get Me What I Need (Karaoke key of E flat)
- Opportunity (Karaoke)
- What It Means To Be A Friend (Karaoke)
- Being A Geek (Karaoke key of G)
- Being A Geek (Karaoke key of B flat)
- Tell Her (Karaoke)
- A Little More Homework (Karaoke)
- Brand New You (Karaoke)
- Here I Come (cut original Broadway version)
- Opportunity (cut original Broadway version)
- A Little More Homework (Jason Robert Brown Demo)
- Getting Over It (Jason Robert Brown Demo)
Music reviews of 13 (Double Disc Including Karaoke)
Music Review: 13
Rating: 4 Stars
The Broadway Cast Album boasts some lively,tuneful songs by Jason Robert Brown who also provided the witty and clever lyrics...but perhaps a bit too clever and witty coming from the mouths of 13 year olds. It has been many moons since I was thirteen and perhaps times have changed but at that age I can't recall me or my contemporaries rhyming exotic with neurotic. The cast are all unknowns but they acquit themselves really well and have lots of energy but I was especially impressed with Allie Trimm who plays Patrice.
The main thrust of the show revolves around Evan a young Jewish lad from New York about to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah whose life is turned upside-down when his father leaves his mother for a stewardess. Mother takes Evan and transplants them to a small town in Indiana. Evan decides to gain acceptance faster by trying to impress the older and cooler kids at school. He also hopes this acceptance will make for more guests at his post-poned Bar Mitzvah. The rest of the story involves new friends, betrayal,and Evans scheme to arrange a date for a lunkhead school jock named Brett who is anxious to give Kendra a cheerleader, "the tongue".
The show has not caught on but who is the target audience? It's too grown-up for 13 year olds and too childish for grown-ups. This little red-riding hood of a show would probably be more suited to a small regional theatre than the big,bad wolf that is Broadway.
All in all this a pleasant listening experience but will never be a classic and probably will not be the type of musical I would listen to over and over again.
Description of 13 (Double Disc Including Karaoke)
A grown-up story about growing up, featuring the only all-teenage cast ever to hit Broadway! With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (The Last 5 Years, Songs ForA New World), 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it. PLUS Bonus CD with Karaoke tracks and other material: 11 Karaoke tracks, 4 Bonus tracks of cut songs and original demos by the composer!On paper, this tuner about, and played exclusively by kids (the title refers to their age and the bar mitzvah around which the plot revolves) seemed like an odd fit for Jason Robert Brown. This, after all, is a composer who made his initial splash with the somber Parade and the two-hander The Last Five Years, about the unraveling of a marriage. But surprise! Brown?s score, lightweight but very fun pop, is the best thing about the show - okay, along with the swell cast of freakishly gifted children. The book, about a NYC kid adjusting to life in a small Indiana town, is rather cliché?no wonder the characters are identified by one- and two-word descriptions ("outsider," "loser," "drama queen," etc.) on the booklet?s back cover. But on their own, the songs work well, and Brown proves adept at coming up with killer hooks ("Hey Kendra" is a really funny take on an R&B seduction number and "It Can?t Be True" has an unfortunate way of drilling itself into your head). The show pokes fun at Disney a couple of times, but it actually sounds not unlike a musical-theater take on the High School Musical franchise. -- Elisabeth Vincentelli
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