Gypsy - A Musical Fable (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Review: The Perfect Musical
Hit: 5 Stars
"Gypsy" is know thought out the theatre world as really the perfect musical, and that is what this is. It has a truly brilliant score, music by Jule Styne and amazing lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Ethel Merman also showers her talent off in this wonderful CD. Her major song, "Some People" is sung magnificently and really is one of the best songs in musical theatre and "Rose's Turn" is just a hunting song that really displays such power and emotions, only Sondheim could have worked on it-just amazing. Yet then there are also the amazing classics to this CD. "Let Me Entertain You" sung by Sandra Chuch is such a good song and she sings it with such beauty and grace, it will melt your heart.
I would have to say that if you are looking for witch cast of "Gypsy" you should bye, this CD is great due to Ms. Merman, yet the Angel Lansbury CD is also quite good. Yet overall, I find that this is really the best recording of "Gypsy." There is also four bonus tracks witch are very nice.
Free Music Review: It's a Pheno-Menon!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Take the two leading composers of post WWII Broadway (Styne and Sondheim), stir in a libretto by Arthur Laurents based on an autobiography by Gypsy Rose Lee, and frost with the number one Broadway performer of all time. How could this recipe be anything but atomic? Happily, "Gypsy" had a cast recording by Columbia, the premiere company for such efforts. The sound is crisp and well mixed, the album notes are informative and well-written, and the newly-issued material is appealing rather than intrusive. What other show had such great orchestrations, such an imposing overture, except perhaps for Merman's own "Annie Get Your Gun" revival in 1966? That "Gypsy" has also been a success with Lansbury, Daly, Midler and Peters is not the point. This is the 14 karat original, and no one has ever or will ever sing this score better than legendary Ethel Merman! Buy this CD immediately!Free Music Review: Momma's Best Turn
Hit: 5 Stars
For those of us who were born too late to see the original GYPSY with Ethel Merman, the excellent revivals are indispensible. Who would want to have missed Lansbury's intelligence, Tyne Daly's power, or most recently Bernadette Peters lovely layered performance, mixing determination with vulnerability and warmth?But make no mistake, Ethel Merman is Momma Rose. At her very best, which she was here, Merman was an irresistable performer. Her generous involvement in the character and the music is felt here in every note. Merman isn't just loud, she uses her mammoth voice with a laser beam focus and a rhythmic vitality that impels the listener to feel every ache and yearning of Rose's experience.
Buy em all! (Tammy Blanchard is a wonderful Louise in the new Peters revival.) But don't miss Ethel's Rose. This one is for the ages.
Free Music Review: The GREATEST just got BETTER!
Hit: 5 Stars
Many consider GYPSY the greatest of all Broadway scores and this original cast album is one of the most beloved of all time. Altering it was a risk, but it pays off beautifully.Remastered, the sound is so much better than before; you hear stuff you never heard. Tom Shepard has tastefully restored some cuts, seamlessly inserted a bit or two of preferable alternate takes, and added fascinating bonus tracks: two cut songs plus demos of early versions of SOME PEOPLE and MR. GOLDSTONE with different lyrics!
Like with the Sistine Chapel, some will quibble with any restoration, but this GYPSY fan cannot thank Shepard and Columbia enough for spiffing up and expanding a record that seemed perfect originally. Now it's even "perfecter".
Free Music Review: The quintessential backstage musical
Hit: 5 Stars
Called by many the best musical in Broadway history, GYPSY was Ethel Merman's shining moment on Broadway. True, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN ran longer, but Big Merm saved her best for Momma Rose, a role she surprising lost the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical to Mary Martin for THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Jule Styne's score is electrifying, and the overture alone would merit a five-star rating. Stephen Sondheim's lyrics showed the promise that he would be a force on Broadway for a long time to come. An absolute MUST for any musical-theatre fan.