Annie Get Your Gun (1999 Broadway Revival Cast)
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Free Music Review: Broadway Has A Gem, With Annie ! You Go, Girl!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a clear and crisp recording of an American Broadway classic! It's true, this version deletes a couple of numbers from the score, (Colonel Buffalo Bill, etc.), but come on, let's get contemporary and keep the audience alive, shall we! Bernadette Peters is excellent in the lead (is she ever going to return to the role?). Tom Wopat, is sexy, and rugged in his role, singing "The Girl that I Marry", and probably one of the most recorded songs of all time, "They Say it's Wonderful". By the way, Michael Poss, a recording vocalist in the Cabaret/Pop genre, has included Irving Berlin's "They Say It's Wonderful" on his new CD release entitled "Silver Screen Serenades". This particularly rendition is beautifully and cleverly infused with Richard Carpenter's "I Need To Be In Love" for an added emotional dimension. It's amazing to think of all the women who have portrayed the character's title role on Broadway. Through the years, many actresses from Bernadette Peters to Cheryl Ladd and now even Reba McEntire have added another shade and color to the role of Annie Oakley, yet one still often thinks of the original role created and stamped by Ethel Merman. At the time, Irving Berlin was extremely unsure about writing songs for a Broadway musical. Yet, in retrospect, this true American success story combined with Mr. Berlin's sixth sense of songwriting demonstrate a good lesson in "I don't know what I'm writing, but let's take a shot at it, and see what happens". With today's exorbitant costs of producing an original major Broadway musical, and with so much more at stake, this CD is a gift and also a sad reminder of "the way Broadway once was". This is a great job with a great CD of a timeless Broadway classic!Free Music Review: They Are the Sun and the Moon Shining in this Revival!
Hit: 5 Stars
Having never heard the Ethel Merman version of this musical (except in the online snippets provided on Amazon.com) I cannot say with a certainty that this is better than her version. But I'm pretty darn sure! I saw the musical opening night on Broadway, and while the staging and book had some problems, there was never any doubt about the music. It was superb! What made it especially so was Ms. Peters' smart, witty reading of the music. Her performance was nuanced, whereas Merman's always felt like a freight train trying to mow the listener down. Complemented by the effortless and rich baritone/tenor of Mr. Wompat, the songs are a sheer delight to listen to. Even now, one month later I'm still singing I've Got the Sun in the Morning to myself. Add to that the incredibly spunky Old Fashioned Wedding -- not in the original score but well worth it -- and all the other Irving Berlin classics, and I finally understand why this musical is a mainstay of American theater. The music is lively, memorable, and effortless in its performance. But make no mistake, it is Bernadette Peters who makes this album sublime. She has heart, power, and a love of musical theater all clearly expressed in her voice and her renditions of these songs. Sit back and enjoy a Moonshine Lullaby with her, all the while regretting that there is only one in this show business like Ms. Peters.Free Music Review: Wonderful!
Hit: 5 Stars
I had the pleasure of seeing this show on Broadway several weeks ago, and enjoyed it very much. Bernadette Peters was great, of course, and though she unfortunatly became ill in the middle of the show and left after the first act, the understudy that took over for her was not too shabby, either. I immediatly bought this cast recording after returning home, and it is every bit as good as the show itself. Peters, with that cute-as-a-button Western accent, is so beguiling, why bother to criticize her for not having Ethel Merman's vocal power and brashness? Anyway, her "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun" ranks right up there with Merman's, and on the whole she did a fine job, even in the second-act songs which I didn't see her perform live. Tom Wopat and the rest of the supporting cast were all great, too. How could they miss with that magnificent Irving Berlin score, filled with instantly recognizable standards and a couple of unknown gems, among them "Moonshine Lullaby" and "My Defenses Are Down." Yes, some of the songs' orders are rearranged, and verses and whole other songs have been deleted in the name of political correctness, but so what? It's still enchanting. I have listened to the recording of the 1966 production with Ethel Merman, and that certainly is good, too, but I favor this one.Free Music Review: Much Anticipated and worth the wait
Hit: 5 Stars
I saw this show in previews in DC, and I think that this recording caputures it very well. Ms. Peters plays Annie so well, and her voice just soars in all the songs. I'd also like to give props to Tom Wopat, who was just great, despite his secondary billing. I really think he deserves more credit for this than he's getting. Another performer who stands out in my mind particularly is Valerie Wright who plays Dolly. When I saw the show, she sang "Im A Bad Bad Man" with Wopat, and it was a lot of fun. Well the song has since been cut, but her charaterization was just a riot. Too bad she isnt on the CD more. The entire ensemble is wonderful and the energy and overall sound is just great. I wasnt so sure about the casting of this show, since its so different from the other stuff that Ms. Peters has done, but I was very pleasantly surprised. It really does justice to this Berlin classic. And I'd just like to say that Graciela Daniele (director) Rules!I definately recommend this one!
Free Music Review: They're Not Writing Music Like This Anymore
Hit: 5 Stars
Yaeh, "Business" is reprised too often. Yaeh, they left some things out for the sake of political correctness. But, you can count on one hand the number of song writers on the level of Irving Berlin. Or for that matter, singers of the quality of Bernadette Peters. For the entire family, Annie Get Your Gun has both some of the most fun tunes ever written and the most beautiful. The poetry in the lyrics is matched by the sophistication of the notes. The introductions to songs are now often forgetten and not played, but this CD reminds us of the beauty of that lost art. "Don't ask me just how it happened, I wish I knew....(then the song)... I got lost in his arms..." or "My mother was frightened by a shot-gun they say, that's why I'm such a wonderful shot....(then the song)... I'm quick on the trigger with targets not much bigger..." You will not be able to get these songs out of your head, nor the feeling that America was great once.