Andrew Lloyd Webber - Song & Dance: The Songs - Original Broadway Cast Recording
Our Price: $13.98
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $3.40 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Artist: Andrew Lloyd WebberEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1995-07-18
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
- Overture: Take That Look Off Your Face
- Let Me Finish
- So Much To Do In New York
- First Letter Home
- English Girls
- Capped Teeth And Caesar Salad
- You Made Me Think You Were In Love
- Capped Teeth And Caesar Salad (Reprise)
- So Much To Do In New York (II)
- Second Letter Home
- Unexpected Song
- Come Back With The Same Look In Your Eyes
- Take That Look Off Your Face (Reprise)
- Tell Me On A Sunday
- I Love New York: So Much To Do In New York
- Married Man
- Third Letter Home
- Nothing Like You've Ever Known
- Finale-Let Me Finish (Reprise)/What Have I Done?/Take That Look Off Your Face (Reprise)
Free Music Notes for Song & Dance: The Songs - Original Broadway Cast Recording
Free Music Review: Peters : Singer / Actress... In Equal Measure
Hit: 4 Stars
First the bad news.
- Peter's English accent isn't the best. A point that would normally drive me crazy, were she not so good in every other way, since I'm a stickler for authenticity. But she IS good. VERY good.
- "English Girls." Added expressly for the American palette. There are some valid observations about the endearing quality of foreign colloquialisms. But I think the song is obvious and uninteresting.
- They did *not* take out "You Made Me Think You Were In Love," This number always felt like clutter. It may be I just don't like the song.
- "The Last Man In My Life" was replaced with "Unexpected Song." God knows why. It's not a bad song mind you, but I find it less moving, with fewer surprises musically and lyrically.
Now the good news.
No one can deliver "Unexpected Song" like Peters. Seriously, it's worth it for the last soul-quaking note alone.
- Mercifully they cut "I'm Very You, You're Very Me" from the score. I found it mind-numbingly insipid.
- While some of the rewrites may be too "trying-oh-so-hard-to-be-British" for it's own good, others, as someone pointed out, are for the better. Here Emma is better grounded. She comes to the US, not only for her dead beat (no pun intended) drummer boyfriend, but also to pursue a career as a hat designer. I don't think that's in the Webb version. Since creatives of every stripe come to NY in droves, to break into their respective arts, it rings true. And we do get some humorous mileage from it.
- "Tell Me On a Sunday" is slowed down considerably. The fact that she lands it fully, is only testament to Bernadette Peter's powerful gift as an actress and a singer. It takes both to do the song this way. Were she off by a hair, you'd hear it. But she isn't. It's absolutely sustained.
- "Nothing Like You've Ever Known." To me this is the most interesting change. Instead of the original sentiment...
"I wanted to spend more time than twelve till two, loving you," which is admittedly affecting...
we get...
"When you go, I'll cry no tears.. for a love without tomorrows suits me fine now."
It depicts a different truth. The sickening, post breakup feeling that ones blood has turned to ice. And to risk feeling anything, is to risk freefalling into agony. This is not an attempt to replace a old shattered love with a new one. That would allow for hope. It's a naked attempt to feel nothing. And it draws on a more complex constellation of emotions. It also makes Emma more rounded and human. And it sets up her subsequent fall from grace. Which makes it that much sweeter, when she recaptures her innocence at the end.
Like "Sunday' Peters delivers. She makes even the state of numbness raw and powerful.
I think the Marti Webb production is equally fine. They're both emotionally truthful, so it may come down to taste. Some may prefer Webb's more understated delivery, and she'll bring you to your knees with "The Last Man In My Life." I like both interpretations and I think they're both valid. Buy them both if you can. You might want to steer clear of the Brightman version however. She's more of a singer who *acts,* and for my money, does neither as well or expressively as the other two.
Song & Dance: The Songs - Original Broadway Cast Recording Poster
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance is a combination of his 1979 Paganini variations for cello and rock band with a 1980 one-woman television piece called Tell Me on a Sunday, which featured lyrics by Don Black. In 1985, Song and Dance was reconceived by Richard Maltby Jr. and debuted on Broadway, which led to this recording of the first half of the show, Song and Dance: The Songs. In the role of Emma, a British girl exploring a new life and new relationships in New York and Los Angeles, Bernadette Peters always keeps things interesting, but the one-woman-show concept probably works better visually, and some of the themes and catch phrases become repetitive. Better to skip past the book numbers and simply enjoy some of Lloyd Webber's tastiest songs: "Tell Me on a Sunday," "Take That Look off Your Face," "Come Back with That Same Look in Your Eyes," and the gorgeous "Unexpected Song." --David HoriuchiPop Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in Before the Parade Passes By: Tony-Nominated Musicals 1986-95
Mike Stoller - Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber And Stoller (1995 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1995-05-30; Music CD
Best price: $18.99
Price in other shops:
Cyrano de MusicalPublished: 1992; Music CD
Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)Release date: 1994-04-26; Music CD
Best price: $8.52
Price in other shops:
Oscar Hammerstein II - A Grand Night For Singing (1994 Original Cast Members)Release date: 1994-09-13; Music CD
Best price: $13.79
Price in other shops:
The Who's Tommy: Original Cast Recording (1992 Broadway Revival)Release date: 1993-07-13; Music CD
Best price: $15.68
Price in other shops:
David Zippel, Marvin Hamlisch - The Goodbye Girl (1993 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1993-04-27; Music CD
Best price: $49.98
Blood Brothers (1995 London Cast Recording)Music CD
Jelly's Last Jam (1992 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1994-06-14; Music CD
Best price: $5.95
Price in other shops:
Louis Jordan - Five Guys Named Moe: (1992) Original Broadway Cast RecordingRelease date: 1992-10-13; Music CD
Best price: $24.70
William Finn - March Of The Falsettos (1981 Original Off-Broadway Cast) / Falsettoland (1990 Off-Off-Broadway Cast)Release date: 1992-06-30; Music CD
Best price: $12.57
Price in other shops:
Top Rated Albums
Sondheim Etc. Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It)Release date: 2005-08-02; Music CD
Best price: $7.76
Price in other shops:
Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2006-12-12; Music CD
Best price: $9.33
Price in other shops:
Bernadette Peters - Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie HallRelease date: 1997-03-11; Music CD
Best price: $11.10
Price in other shops:
The Pirate Queen (2007 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2007-07-03; Music CD
Best price: $11.99
Price in other shops:
Sunset Boulevard (1993 Original London Cast)Release date: 1996-06-10; Music CD
Best price: $26.98
Price in other shops:
Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (The New Broadway Cast)Release date: 2008-05-27; Music CD
Best price: $10.47
Price in other shops:
Sunday in the Park with George (1984 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2007-03-20; Music CD
Best price: $9.49
Price in other shops:
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Aspects Of Love (Original 1989 London Cast)Release date: 1989-09-25; Music CD
Best price: $19.85
Price in other shops:
Tell Me on a Sunday (2003 London Revival Cast)Release date: 2007-08-20; Music CD
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops:
Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2007-06-05; Music CD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops: