Category: Musicals

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Carousel (1993 London Cast Recording)

  “The feelin’ is gettin’ so intense” Nick Hytner’s production of Carousel began life at the National…

Posted in Albums Cyndi Lauper Music

Album Review: Ben Forster – Acoustic Covers (2012)

“I lost my head And thought of all the stupid things I said” Winner of ITV’s Superstar…

Posted in Cast Recordings Kander + Ebb Music Musicals

Album Review: Cabaret (2006 London Cast Recording)

  “No use permitting some prophet of doom” Cabaret is a show which has had many a…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: The Woman In White (2004 Original London Cast Recording)

  “There’s only one thing one has to have One has to have no shame” Hitting the…

Posted in Alanis Morissette Albums Broadway Cabaret Music Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Annaleigh Ashford – Lost in the Stars: Live at 54 Below

“The little dark star in the wind down there” Though she’s yet to pop her head over…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Theatre

Album Review: Groundhog Day (2017 Original Broadway Cast Recording)

  “Nobody cares what I’m talking about” It is rare that I feel so completely out of…

Posted in Albums Broadway Cabaret Maury Yeston Music

Album Review: Laura Benanti – In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention – Live At 54 Below

“She speaks in sorry sentences Miraculous repentances” Appearances may be deceptive but the force of personality that…

Posted in Albums Broadway Music Musicals

Album Review: Marin Mazzie – Make Your Own Kind of Music, Live at 54 Below

“Love, soft as an easy chair” Music, soft as easy listening. That’s the somewhat surprising turn of…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Fame (1995 Original London Cast Recording)

  “These are my emotions  Mine alone to keep” Some things age well. Music produced in the…