Patti LuPone - The Lady with the Torch
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Artist: Patti LuPoneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Music Label: Ghostlight
Soundtracks:
- The Man I Love
- Guess I?ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
- Something Cool
- A Cottage For Sale
- III Wind
- I Wanna Be Around
- The Other Woman
- Do It Again
- Early Autumn
- Though I?m In Love
- So In Love
- My Buddy
- Body And Soul
- Don?t Like Goodbyes
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Free Music Review: And I like Patti Lupone!
Hit: 1 Stars
I've seen Patti Lupone in almost every Broadway show she's been in, from "Evita" through "Gypsy" and "Sweeney Todd" - and particularly enjoyed her in "Anything Goes." One of the comments I made when I saw her one-woman show was that she needed someone to pick her gowns for her. I couldn't understand how someone could select gowns so unsuited for herself.
Well, the same goes for the selection of materials. She is a belter with a voice that easily reaches second balconies in theatres. Vulnerability is not her forte. Everyone has heard the songs in this CD sung many times - and usually better by such voices as Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Judy Garland -- none of them belters. There are so many songs out there that Lupone could have done justice to, and yet she chose the ones least suited to her talents (go figure). When I saw her in "Can-Can" at the Encore series, I was struck by how sexy and powerful she can be when the material and wardrobe are given to her.
If she's into an American songbook, that's a marvelous idea -- when the songs are more carefully chosen for her.
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Based on her one-woman show conceived and directed by Scott Wittman (lyricist for Hairspray) and orchestrated for ten musicians by longtime Sondheim collaborator Jonathan Tunick, The Lady with the Torch is Patti LuPone simultaneously at the peak of her powers and her most subdued. As its title indicates, the CD sees the singer in full-on ballad mode, tenderly wrapping her burnished pipes around a cherry-picked collection of standards that range from achingly sad to romantically moody. How good is LuPone? She manages to put her stamp on songs as well covered as the Jule Styne?/Sammy Cahn tune "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry," which has already been done by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt and Ray Charles. This is a perfect twilight album that will delight both afficionados of the American Songbook and those who just want music to sigh to. Note that LuPone contributes zesty little comments on each track in the booklet (re: "Body and Soul": "This song is from the Great Depression--mine"). --Elisabeth VincentelliBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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