Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
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Performer: Edward SalkinPerformer: Dick Sarpola
Composer: Marc Shaiman
Conductor: Charlie Alterman
Performer: Rich Mercurio
Performer: David Trigg
Performer: Ed Shea
Performer: Marc Shaiman
Performer: Craig Baldwin
Performer: Mike Christiansen
Performer: Brooks Ashmanskas
Performer: Capathia Jenkins
Performer: Martin Short
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Music Label: Ghostlight
Soundtracks:
- Another Curtain Goes Up
- All I Ask (Is you love me)
- Three Gorgeous Kids
- big Titties
- The Salesman That Got Away
- Sittin' On The Fence
- The Jackie Rogers Jr Show
- Ba Ba Ba Ba Broadway
- The Hello Boy
- The Trumpet of Samaria
- Step Brother To Jesus
- Backstage Courtship
- Married To Marty
- Sniff Sniff
- A Dry Martin - Straight Up With A Twist
- Twelve Step Pappy
- More, More, More
- Would You Like To Star In Our Show?
- I Came Just As Soon As I Heard
- A Wicked Memorial
- Michael's Song
- Heaven, Heaven
- Up Here In Heaven
- A Big Black Lady Stops The Show
- Finale
- Lessons Learned
- Glass Half Full
- Frieda May's Lament
Free Music Notes for Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
Free Music Review: Its Better to Have Loved A Short, Than To Have Never Loved A Tall...
Hit: 4 Stars
This musical is still growing on me, and in another week I'd probably have it at five stars. This, of course, with a first listen putting it probably at two stars. However, the more I listen to it, the more jokes you pick up on, and the funnier and better it becomes.
This soundtrack has a little bit of everything, and while others say that, this really isn't that much of an exaggeration. Impersonations (Joan Rivers, Jodie Foster, Judy Garland, Ellen DeGeneres, to name a few), a career review (basically any Martin Short character you can remember), and parodies of other musicals (Wicked, Dreamgirls, Company, and Jesus Christ Superstar I remember mentions of off the top of my head), and jokes galore (puns to celebrity jokes to an inappropriate, but hilarious, Noah joke).
Now, this soundtrack isn't perfect. Its very choppy and frankly after the portions involving his wife it goes downhill and gets a little wacky, even more so than in the beginning.
Still, its worth listening to. Its got a lot of witty exchanges and will be very enjoyable for a while. I'm a little worried as to how this will age (Britney Spears jokes, Fidel Castro on his deathbed, and a few others), but rather than worry about what I'm going to think about it in five or ten years, I'm simply going to enjoy it now.
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me Poster
Martin Short's 2006 Broadway show Fame Becomes Me is a love letter to old-school showbiz doubling as a send-up of self-serving celebrity memoirs. This "comedy musical" is obviously the work of someone who adores not only the golden age of Broadway but also that of a certain style of entertainment you may call vaudeville variety. The idea is that Short is looking back at his own life (with some liberties—if a celeb out there is not known for outrageous behavior, it's gotta be him) through songs and skits, and with the help of his own TV personae, such as Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley. It helps that said songs were written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman: The cocreators of Hairspray can zippily pastiche everything from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked. For this supposed ego trip, Short has also surrounded himself with a crackerjack cast that includes MAD TV's chameleonic Nicole Parker, versatile funsters Brooks Ashmanskas and Mary Birdsong, and Carpathia Jenkins, who blows the roof off the joint with the self-explanatory "A Big Black Lady Stops the Show"-—a number that mocks the Broadway habit of hiring African-American belters for to deliver one song. In an ironic twist, Jenkins herself is woefully underutilized in Fame Becomes Me but at least she gets one of the two bonus tracks, "Frieda May's Lament," to herself. --Elisabeth VincentelliIn the grand American traditions of musical theater, sketch comedy and shameless self-promotion comes Fame Becomes Me, Martin Short's uproarious new comedy musical that has critics in hysterics! In Fame Becomes Me, the "phenomenally gifted" Martin Short (New York Post) and his "superb" cast (USA Today) sing, dance and mercilessly mock others as they race through a whirlwind revue that's part variety show, part celebrity send-up and "the best time on Broadway!" (WNBC-TV). Featuring original music from the composer and lyricist of Hairspray and South Park, Fame Becomes Me is Broadway's most riotous party and you're invited!
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