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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: VARIOUS
Fabric Type: 0075597982923
Graphics Memory Size: Cast Recording
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 35
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Processor Count: 1
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Total Parallel Ports: May 24, 2005
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Disc 1:- Overture
- Statues and Stories
- The Beauty Is
- Il Mondo Era Vuoto
- American Dancing
- Passeggiata
- The Joy You Feel
- Dividing Day
- Hysteria
- Say It Somehow
- Aiutami
- The Light in the Piazza
- Octet
- The Beauty Is (Reprise)
- Let's Walk
- Clara's Interlude
- Love to Me
- Fable
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Genre: Original Cast Recordings
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 24-MAY-2005
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Like a shimmering pearl, The Light in the Piazza emerged from a sea of revivals, rehashings, and movie adaptations to secure 11 2005 Tony nominations, including Best Musical. Based on an Elizabeth Spencer novella (which was also made into a 1962 film), it follows a mother, Margaret (Victoria Clark), and her daughter, Clara (Kelli O'Hara), as they take a vacation to Italy. There, Clara and a young Italian (Matthew Morrison) fall in love, but Margaret is determined to keep them apart.
The Light in the Piazza doesn't fit the model of most Broadway scores, with a splashy opener here, a swing number there, then the big ballad. The score is more of a unified whole, sometimes jarring, sometimes following the patterns of speech, and sometimes unfolding in glorious sheens of sound. (Heck, some of it's even in Italian!) In that sense, it's similar to another unconventional American musical set in Italy, Stephen Sondheim's Passion, which is more chamber opera than musical, and composer-lyricist Adam Guettel (song of Mary Rodgers, grandson of Richard Rodgers) seems the most likely heir apparent to Sondheim in the current generation of musical theater creators. O'Hara's voice soars in the score's most beautiful moments ("Say It Somehow," the title song), but Clark enjoys two exquisitely lyrical moments with "Dividing Day" and "Let's Walk." She was one of the show's six Tony winners (for Leading Actress), along with Guettel's score and the orchestrations, scenice design, lighting, and costumes, while O'Hara (for Featured Actress), Morrison, Craig Lucas's book, and Bartlett Sher's direction were also nominated. --David Horiuchi
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I think this musical is just gorgeous. The singers, especially Ms. Clark and Ms. O'Hara, are out of this world. As a legit singer myself, it is wonderful to hear a musical with beautiful singing instead of all the belty/shouty stuff that is more popular. The story is poignant and the music is wonderful. If you are into music that is more lyrical that pop, this is the musical for you.Voice Lessons To Go v.1-4 The Complete Set
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(Just bear in mind, I have not seen this show live. This is more about the actual cast recording.) In the early 1990s, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine created a brand new musical called "Passion" which was the story of basically how a man must decide between choosing to love the beautiful Clara or the hideous Fosca. It was unconventional at the time because it didn't rely on the typical Broadway score formula (ie big opening, ballads, ensemble numbers, fast-paced lyric-heavy songs, etc). Instead, ... Read More
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The CD was in great condition--both the book and the disc. It took between 3-4 weeks to arrive, which was a bit frustrating. But, it was still well within the amount of time given for it to arrive.
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This is a beautiful musical and the CD is great. I saw the show at Lincoln Center with this cast and listening to this CD brings it all back perfectly. The voices are amazing! You have to listen to it several times if you are not familiar with the show because it is so rich, you almost cannot take it all in at once. Definitely worth it!
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... was my reaction to the music, a few numbers into the LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (when they still were playing the full overture). After performing for some months on a cruise ship - and bearing in mind what is said about how you enjoy your travels even more when you remember them - that's exactly what I said to a companion: it feels like travel.
There's not much to add to the favorable words elsewhere in these pages,but a few thoughts:
Some like barbecue, some like sushi, some ... Read More
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