Anything Goes - The New Broadway Cast Recording
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Free Music Review: Sing it out loud!
Hit: 5 Stars
A favorite year after year. Strong singing - the best. The music sweeps you away. This is my favorite recording of this Musical. It simply works!Free Music Review: What an uplifting soundtrack!
Hit: 5 Stars
The music is always wonderful for playing outside, inside, anywhere you can think of!Free Music Review: it's de-lovely!
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this cast-- Patti Lupone is always a knock out, and the whole thing sparkles!!Free Music Review: They don't get any better than this!
Hit: 5 Stars
Kudos to all involved. A marvelous CD, beautifully performed and recorded.Free Music Review: Those songs speak for themselves
Hit: 4 Stars
A delightful, if not necessarily well-sung, recording of the 1987 Lincoln Center revival of Cole Porter's famous musical. With several interpolations from other Porter shows (Including a few that were cut from the original production but that he later put in other shows himself), the majority of the score sparkles like probably none before and few since, and the not-so-good songs on this album (Like "Public Enemy Number One" and the rather unwisely chosen interpolations "I Want to Row On the Crew"-written in Porter's Yale days and boy did he have a lot to learn-and "Goodbye Little Dream, Goodbye") are quickly and efficiently dealt with so we can get to the real goods-"I Get a Kick Out of You," "You're the Top," "Anything Goes," "Blow, Gabriel Blow," "All Through the Night," and also the interpolated "Freindship," "It's DeLovely," and "Buddie Beware," a great song cut several weeks into the run of the original production and reinstated (To a different character than the original but to equally delightful effect) here. The new orchestrations, unlike some others in Broadway revivals, are generally quite respectful and don't go too far off on a tangent while still giving the score a fresh sound. As for the cast, Howard McGillin warbles away and Tony winner Bill McCutcheon turns the silly "Be Like the Bluebird" into a charming showstopper. None of the other supporting cast members are any great shakes although the chorus of sailors do a fine job in their songs. And then there is Patti LuPone. Okay, so she runs through Porter's lyrics like a steamroller and doesn't seem to be too concerned with letting those clever rhymes and double meanings shine through, and even Merman must have been a tad more subtle. But you have to admit she has one heck of a belter's voice, brillaintly displayed in "Blow, Gabriel Blow," and her interplay with McGillin in "You're the Top" and McCutcheon in "Friendship" is great to hear. As I said, these songs speak for themselves. It is also a delight to hear Porter himself in an old recording of the title song right before the overture starts. A excitingly theatrical recording whose strengths by far override its weaknesses.