The New Moon (2003 Encores! Revival Concert Cast)
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Composer: Sigmund RombergPerformer: Rodney Gilfry
Performer: Christiane Noll
Performer: Burke Moses
Performer: Lauren Ward
Performer: Peter Benson
Performer: Danny Rutigliano
Performer: Brandon Jovanovich
Performer: Alix Korey
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Music Label: Ghostlight
Soundtracks:
- Act 1. Overture
- Act 1. Opening
- Act 1. Marianne
- Act 1. Marianne's Entrance
- Act 1. The Girl on the Prow
- Act 1. Gorgeous Alexander
- Act 1. An Interrupted Love Song
- Act 1. Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
- Act 1. Stouthearted Men
- Act 1. One Kiss
- Act 1. The Trial (Ladies of the Jury)
- Act 1. Finaletto / Wanting You
- Act 1. Finale Act 1
- Act 2. Intermezzo
- Act 2. Funny Little Sailor Men
- Act 2. Lover, Come Back to Me
- Act 2. Stouthearted Men reprise
- Act 2. Marriage Number / Try Her Out at Dances
- Act 2. Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise reprise / Never for You
- Act 2. Lover, Come Back to Me reprise
- Act 2. Finale Ultimo
Free Music Notes for The New Moon (2003 Encores! Revival Concert Cast)
Free Music Review: BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVISSIMO!
Hit: 5 Stars
I can imagine the audience leaping to its collective feet and shouting "Bravo" at the end of each City Center Encores! Production of Sigmund Romberg's THE NEW MOON in March, 2003. Glorious music! Magnificent orchestrations! Superb singing from everyone: principals, supporting cast and chorus! THEY JUST DON'T WRITE (or produce) MUSICALS LIKE THIS ANYMORE.
When was the last time you went to a Broadway musical and heard songs the likes of "Stouthearted Men," "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise," "One Kiss," or "Lover, Come Back to Me?" How long has it been since the chorus numbered twenty-eight singers and the orchestra boasted 13 violins, 4 violas, 4 celli, a harp, and no drum machine? Oh, I lament the current state of the Broadway musical, highlighted by heavily-amplified, tiny voices. (Does the current theater-goer even know what an un-amplified, "legitimate" voice sounds like? Does he/she care?) I bewail the trend toward what NEW YORK TIMES critic Ben Brantley calls "bloated spectacles." Give me a City Center Encores! presentation any day: no bloat, no spectacle - just a Broadway score performed the way it was meant to be performed.
Call me a romantic fool, but I yearn to ". . . journey back to a time when audiences came to hear how high the tenor and soprano could sing, how lush the romantic ballads could sound, and how stirring the ensemble numbers could be. . . . a kind of musical in which music holds more sway, when fine singing, romanticism, silly heroic plots and swashbuckling characters take precedence over real drama and honest emotion. They [the audience] knew there would be a happy ending, and they assumed there would be some trouble along the way." (adapted from Ted Chapin's liner notes) A hundred years from now audiences will still be stirred by the melodies of Puccini, Verdi, Romberg, Kern, Porter, Berlin, Richard Rodgers. But Duncan Sheik? Marc Shaiman? Laurence O'Keefe? Mel Brooks?
THE NEW MOON is an essential recording for everyone who cares about the American musical theater and for those who long to hear great singing once again: Christiane Noll, Rodney Gilfry, Brandon Jovnovich, Burke Moses. When's the last time any of these fine singers headlined a Broadway show? When was the last time that ANY new Broadway musical used "legitimate" voices? Whatever has happened to Broadway?
So, get this recording. Support the little record companies (Ghostlight, P.S. Classics, et. al.) who are willing to take risks with non-mega hits. You'll be very glad you did.
Very Highly Recommended.
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