110 in the Shade (2007 Broadway Revival Cast)
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Composer: Harvey SchmidtComposer: Tom Jones
Performer: Audra McDonald
Performer: Steve Kazee
Performer: John Cullum
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:
- Another Hot Day
- Lizzie's Comin' Home
- Love, Don't Turn Away
- Poker Polka
- The Hungry Men
- The Rain Song
- You're Not Fooling Me
- Cinderella
- Raunchy
- A Man and a Woman
- "She Walked Out On Me..."
- Old Maid
- Evenin' Star
- Everything Beautiful
- "Stay and Talk..."
- Melisande
- Simple Little Things
- Little Red Hat
- Is It Really Me?
- Wonderful Music
- The Rain Song (reprise)
Free Music Notes for 110 in the Shade (2007 Broadway Revival Cast)
Free Music Review: Simply beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
I was not expecting much out of this recording; however, it has impressed me a lot. Based on "The Rainmaker", which became a popular movie with Katharine Hepbun and Burt Lancaster (known in Chile as "EL Farsante"), this musical summarizes the whole story and adds wonderful music and lyrics. However, what impressed me the most is the voice of the main characters, specially Audra McDonald. She's terrific!
These are the same composers of "The Fantasticks" and, in many ways, this creationsurpasses that hit. I think it has more memorable songs and better musical arrangements. Although I've never listened to previous versions, I surely recommend this one.
110 in the Shade (2007 Broadway Revival Cast) Poster
Four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald triumphantly returns to Broadway in the role she was born to play: Lizzie Curry in 110 in the Shade, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's heartrending musical adaptation of N. Richard Nash's classic play The Rainmaker. Amidst a heat wave in 1930's Texas, Lizzie - despite her wit, intelligence and homemaking skills - is on the verge of becoming an old maid, until a charismatic rainmaker named Starbuck enters town and her world is shaken. 110 in the Shade originally premiered in 1963 - Jones and Schmidt's first Broadway musical following their unprecedented off-Broadway triumph with The Fantasticks. Joining McDonald for the new Roundabout Theatre Company revival are two-time Tony Award-winner John Cullum and, fresh from Spamalot, Steve Kazee as Starbuck. PS Classics and the Roundabout previously collaborated on Grammy-nominated and top-selling recordings of Nine: The Musical and Assassins; this latest CD is sure to result in another definitive Broadway cast album, this time headed by one of Broadway's brightest crown jewels.More than four decades after its Broadway debut, the Roundabout Theatre's 2007 revival of 110 in the Shade is a glorious showcase for soprano Audra McDonald, and an eloquent statement for an underrated and neglected work. Based on N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker, 110 in the Shade tells the story of a Texas town stuck in a blistering heat wave. Lizzie (McDonald), the daughter of a local widower (Broadway veteran and TV star John Cullum), has resisted all suitors, including the sheriff (Christopher Innvar), until a potential huckster named Starbuck (Steve Kazee) arrives in town promising to bring rain ("The Rain Song"). Just like Marian the librarian, Lizzie thinks she sees right through the scam ("You're Not Fooling Me"). McDonald shines in her solos ("Love, Don't Turn Away," "Old Maid"), but Cullum, Innvar, and Kazee also get their moments either in duets with McDonald ("A Man and a Woman," "Simple Little Things," "Is It Really Me?") or by themselves. 110 in the Shade is obscure compared to Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's most famous work, The Fantasticks--none of its songs ever entered the popular culture like "Try to Remember"--but it's a beautiful, evocative score that is tailor-made for McDonald's rich voice. It's also much more sumptuous than The Fantasticks, even in Jonathan Tunick's pared-down, Tony-nominated orchestrations. (Also nominated were McDonald, Cullum, lighting designer Christopher Akerlind, and the show itself for Best Revival of a Musical.) P.S. Classics puts out its usual first-rate package, with color photos, introduction by Peter Filichia, synopsis, and libretto. --David Horiuchi
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