A Catered Affair (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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Free Music Notes for A Catered Affair (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Free Music Review: A very small pleasure
Hit: 2 Stars
A very small pleasure, no pretty melodies, no complex story.
The songs allow you to follow the story well. Unfortunately the story is exactly the same as the old Bette Davis movie.
Faith Prince is fine, she has her Bronx accent perfect. Tom Wopat in good voice but his accent is not so satisfying. But Harvey Firestein is terrible! The raspy voice that was such fun in Hairspray is such an annoyance here.
I was disappointed when the show closed before I could get tickets. Now I'm glad I saved the $200.
Free Music Review: Can I Just Point Something Out Here?
Hit: 1 Stars
It's fine that some people enjoy this score. I find it songless, which wrecks any enjoyment for me. If listeners are gratified by the extended-recitatif format, or are able to discern songs that I can't hear, God bless 'em -- but I'd like everyone to stop making snooty and dismissive comments about "hummability" or "tapping choruses" or "blaring horns," or any of the other purportedly Cro-Magnon qualities of traditional showtunes. Such smears are traditionally invoked in defense of composers who try to hide a paucity of inspiration with a veneer of highbrow art-song pretension. When I hear them, I wonder which showtune in particular is being referred to -- "Ole Man River"? "Summertime"? "Fugue For Tinhorns"? Hummable tunes all, and appealing on a crowd-pleasing level, and executed with, if I may say so, more skill than is apparent in some of the "Catered Affair" numbers.
So if you like CDs of this ilk, buy them, listen to them, and best wishes to you. But there's nothing bourgeois or corny or in any way declasse about traditionally discernible songs.