Hey all. I have a class in school this coming semester where one of our assignments is to listen to a solo album of a musical theatre performer. I'm tempted to get Malcolm Gets' single - I'm partial to Broadway Baritones, since that matches my vocal range. I was wondering if anyone has any opinions or suggestions on this matter? Thanks so much!
As far as baritones go - Norm Lewis has a pretty good album out. My personal favorite solo cd is Kelli O'Hara's most recent album, Always :) It's great.
How about Ethel Merman's Disco Album of some of her big hits, including "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "Some People" from GYPSY. Just the album for those who were stranded in their apartments during the IRENE storm. It will shake your blues away.
Second Emily Skinner's self-titled solo album. A few more: Julia Murney's "I'm Not Waiting"; Christiane Noll's "A Broadway Love Story"; any of Barbara Cook's live CDs, but I particularly like "Barbara Cook's Broadway"; Audra's "Way Back to Paradise"; Brian Stokes Mitchell's self-titled album; and Lillias White's "From Brooklyn to Broadway," which is out-of-print but well worth seeking.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I also really like Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust, but Patti LuPone's Matters of the Heart CD would be my pick.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
"Songs of Jason Robert Brown" or "Here & Now," both by Lauren Kennedy "Broadway My Way" by Linda Eder (if it's supposed to be Broadway themed) "Broadway Love Story" by Christiane Noll
My favorite solo album of all time is The Story Goes On by Liz Callaway. Other favorites:
Brent Barrett - The Alan Jay Lerner Album Norm Lewis - This is the Life John Barrowman - Music Music Music Daniel Boys - So Close Debbie (Shapiro) Gravitte - Part of Your World Judy Kuhn - Just in Time Sally Mayes - All her CDs are fantastic Randy Graff - Doing Something Right Kristin Chenoweth - Let Yourself Go Susan Egan - Coffee House
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
I would also like to add my voice to the praise for Barbara Cook's live shows, particularly It's Better with a Band, Barbara Cook's Broadway, and Mostly Sondheim. Also LOVE Audra McDonald's Build a Bridge.
Norm Lewis - This is My life Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley - Duets Rebecca Luker - Leaving Home Elaine Stritch - Stritch Bernadette Peters - Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein Brian Stokes Mitchell - self titled
and I know this may be wildly unpopular but Mandy Patinkin- Oscar and Steve.
If you are looking for baritones, check out Matt Bogart's cd Simple Song. If you are looking for others, I second Liz Callaway The Story Goes On: Songs from On and Off Broadway, also, her Anywhere I Wander cd with the songs of Frank Loesser. Both are extremely well done. Updated On: 8/29/11 at 03:04 PM