Hairspray (2002 Original Broadway Cast)
|
List Price: Our Price: $5.97 You Save: $6.02 (50%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $2.00 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Hairspray (2002 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it.
Hit: 5 Stars
The original Broadway cast recording of HAIRSPRAY is so fun, so good and so catchy that I have been listening to it in my car almost nonstop for about four months now. I have the whole thing memorized, and it cheers me up whenever I'm driving. I realize this cast recording, unlike other ones, doesn't focus so much on the score of the show or seem like a show album. I will agree that it's mostly a pop record, but it's a very, very good one."Good Morning, Baltimore" and "You Can't Stop the Beat" are my absolute favorites, for you'll often see me in a parking lot singing and dancing in the driver's seat of my car to them, but the rest of the album is equally good. All the love songs have a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, and no teen cliche escapes a skewering throughout the work.
It's funny. It's upbeat. And it's got me raving about it like I was a teen-age girl, and I don't often do that. This CD is doing something right.
Free Music Review: GREAT FUN!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I cant't wait to see this show. Being a fan of the original film and its soundtrack, I was very skeptical about its translation to the stage. I am so not disappointed! The writers have captured the spirit of Waters' story and provided some time appropriate, toe-tapping tunes to go with it. The only two negative things I might say 1)the score includes a song titled "Hairspray" - the film soundtrack number of the same title was fantastic but the new "Hairspray" is written as a silly commercial jingle and 2)this is a personal issue, but sometimes listening to Harvey Fierstein talk is painful much less sing - although I've always admired him and think his casting here is perfect. Forget HAIR, this show is going to do for the sixties what GREASE did for the fifties. All performances on this recording are first rate and includes, no doubt, many soon to be big names on Broadway. Kudos to all the creative staff involved - Order it today!!Free Music Review: A BIG SPLASHY COTTON-CANDY 60s EXTRAVAGANZA
Hit: 5 Stars
Shaiman & Whitman have given us the 1960s doo-wop era set in Baltimore to John Waters story of the overweight Tracy Turnblad (Marissa Winokur) yearning for the cutest boy and a spot on a local teen dance show, and her beleagured, overweight, overworked mom, Edna. The songs seemed to have stepped right out of the best of that pre VietNam-Civil Rights era. Girl-group type numbers abound and although Harvey Feirstein as Edna can no more carry a tune than we could carry her, he (she?) manages to squawk out the lyrics well enough. Marissa Winokur belts out her numbers with apporpriate nasality as she seems to find beauty in her lower-middle class surroundings. The supporting players do well especially Dick Latessa in his one romantic song with Mr. Feirstein. Matt Morrison as teen heartthrob Link Larkin is superb and Mary Bond Davis (where has she been all our lives?) as Motormouth Maybelle has a voice which is apparently a gift from God.Free Music Review: You Can't Stop This Show
Hit: 5 Stars
"Hairspray" is the 2003 Tony winning musical derived for the 80's movie starring Rickie lake.
I love this show soo much, i will agree that some of the voices on thsi cd are very, very squeaky, but if you can get past that then there is a superb musical under neath full of poppy melodies and upbeat lyrics that will have you dancing in the streets.
Standout songs include:
Good Morning Baltimore
The Nicest kids In Town
Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now
I Can Hear The Bells
(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs
Welcome To The 60's
Run And Tell That!
Big, Blonde And Beautiful
The Big Dollhouse
Good Morning Baltimore Reprise
(You're) Timeless To Me
Without Love
(It's) Hairspray
Cooties
You Can't Stop The Beat-Bonus at the end
GO BUY THIS Music Review: Overlooked and wonderful
Hit: 5 Stars Hairspray is not your typical musical, its brash, helarious, and has unusual talent.
Harvey Fierstien as Edna is brilliant, and yes the voice isn't perfect, but thats the point! ITs a colorful, vibrant show about segrigation and love. The morals of the show, although not blatantly obvious are far more wholesome then some of the other shows on Broadway (not that the other shows are bad, i love just about all of the shows on broadyway).
The first time i heard this soundtrack i thought this show was about sex and LSD. I see the show and I realize now that its not about that.
The soundtrack is a bit better understood if you've seen the show. And no doubt, if you see te show, will fall in love with it. Its a wonderful departure from the broadway norm of dark drama's. This is a MUST SEE with Havery Fierstien, Edna just won't work without him.