On a Monday night in September 1998, PBS's Great Performances series staged a program at Carnegie Hall that was a kind of one time only Lilith Fair of the musical theater. Drawing on the talents of 16 female performers then appearing in Broadway musicals (and thus in New York and available, Monday being the theater's traditional "dark" night), ...
A classicist in the guise of a punk iconoclast, comedienne and Broadway star Lea DeLaria delivers a wry mix of contemporary pop and rock tunes -- all done in a straight-ahead jazz style -- on Double Standards. For jazz fans who decry the death of American Popular Song, Double Standards should be a revelation, as DeLaria has picked a varied set of ...
On Play It Cool, her debut CD for Warner Bros. Records, vocalist Lea DeLaria reinterprets 11 compositions from contemporary musical theater, including "Cool" from West Side Story, "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" from Sweeney Todd, and "All That Jazz" from Chicago. Her vocal instrument is both complementary and unique in its interpretations of the ...
"Why would anyone do another Sondheim collection?" is a question producer Bruce Kimmel says he was asked by Dame Edna Everage when he engaged, uh, her to participate in it. Kimmel compounds the question by noting that The Stephen Sondheim Album is the tenth project he has worked on that is exclusively dedicated to the musical theater's most ...
Broadway Cares: Home for the Holidays puts its best face forward right away with the lighthearted and slightly naughty first track, "Baby Its Cold Outside," performed by Alan Cumming and Liza Minnelli. The pairing is magical and sets a great tone for this benefit album for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS organization, which helps ...
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