A Man of No Importance (2002 Off-Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Review: Amazing Music, Wish i had seen the play
Hit: 5 Stars
On a whim I bought this CD and it's one of the best musicals I've ever listened to. Several different styles are used, differences between characters, etc. The CD is just Amazing, I can listen to it over and over again.
Plus, I love Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' musicals.
Again, this cd is wonderful. Go for it.
Free Music Review: A Man of No Importance
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent recording, excellent music. i was surprised since I had not heard it before. Very enjoyable.Free Music Review: A great musical drama from the creators of "Ragtime"
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a very special little show. Based on a film that starred the great Albert Finney, Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (the team who brought us the musical "Ragtime") have created a haunting and melancholy musical of repression and unrequited love. Roger Rees plays Alfie Byrne - a closeted gay bus conductor who worships Oscar Wilde and lusts after Robbie - his beautiful young bus driver(Steven Pasquale).
Alfie lives with his spinster sister Lily (played by Faith Prince), who refuses to get on with her own life and marry the butcher William Carney (played by Charles Keating).
Alfie reads poetry to the passengers on his bus, and attempts to stage "Salome" with a group of local players. As his yearning for Robbie and his desire to come out of the closet overtakes him, Alfie is rebuffed by the church and encouraged by the ghost of Wilde. Coming out results in initial disaster - a brutal gay-bashing which is nothing compared with complete exposure to family, friends and co-workers.
Terrence McNally has been telling "our" stories for years - "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Love Valor Compassion" - even "The Full Monty." His work here is inspired. The score is what we have on this CD - and it's terrific. Flaherty and Ahrens won a Tony for "Ragtime," and also wrote "Once On This Island," "Seussical" and "Dessa Rose." This score is one of their best (this is a team we should be hearing from for decades). The titular number is a knockout. The ensemble couldn't be improved upon. "Princess" (sung beautfully by Sally Murphy), "Man in the Mirror" and "Love Who You Love" are evocative, character infused ballads. "The Streets of Dublin" is a showstopper. The orchestrations by William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke are outstanding, as is everything about this recording.
Free Music Review: A Show of GREAT Importance.
Hit: 4 Stars
Let me first say that if you don't like Irish music, you probably won't like this show.
A Man of No Importance is the perfect example of how off-broadway can have amazing shows too. It is the story of a kind hearted ticket taker, Alfie Burnes who loves oscar wilde and poetry. Enter Robbie Fay, driver of the bus, this is the one on whom Alfie has a crush.
Alfie lives with his sister Lil and heads the comunity theater group, The St. Amelda's players,. For their next production Alfie want to put on "Salome"
I won't give away the whole show but that is the general gist nix the twists and turns taken during the play.
The talent on the cast album is extremly gifted and sind the songs with such believability that you think you might in the streets of Dublin Ireland while you're listining.
Standouts include:
A Man of No Importance
The Burden of Life
Going Up
Princess
The Streets of Dublin
Books
Our Father
Confessions
Art
All in all this album is a good and enjoyable buy.
Free Music Review: a surprise hit :-)
Hit: 4 Stars
After doing an Ahrens and Flaherty review at my university, I became drawn to the 2 songs "The Streets of Dublin" and "Love Who You Love". After the show closed, I got my hand on a copy of the whole musical and I haven't stopped listening to it for about a week.
The ability of Ahrens and Flaherty to put you in such a distinct place and time is so evident here. The music and voices are about as Irish as you can get. Each of the singers are perfect, the stanadouts being Jessica Molaskey as Mrs Patrick, and Steven Pasquale as Robbie faye. My favorite songs in the recording have to be the two I already mentioned, "Our Father" and the haunting "Confusing Times"
No, it's not the multilayered, epic story of Ragtime, and it doesn't have to be. "A Man of No Importance" is a lovely, heart-wrenching story about a man looking for his honest place in the world, and will make a fine addition to your showtune collection.