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CD REVIEW: Disaster! – Broadway Cast Recording
Reviewer: Mark Clegg Jukebox musicals (new shows featuring pre-existing songs) often employ parody and deliberate cheesiness in their plot and…
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CD REVIEW: Michael Longoria – Broadway Brick by Brick
Reviewer: Holly Spanner Currently performing with The Midtown Men, a high-octane band performing hits from the sixties, Michael Longoria made…
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CD REVIEW: Bonnie and Clyde and a Whole Lota Jazz: Frank Wildhorn and Friends
Reviewer: Mark Clegg Variety it’s said is the spice of life, a saying that the folks at 54 Below and…
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CD REVIEW: Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined – London Cast Recording
Music: Burt Bacharach New Arrangements: Kyle Riabko Reviewer: Niall Harman Burt Bacharach is one of the most successful composers of…
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CD REVIEW: She Loves Me – 2016 Broadway Cast Recording
Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick Reviewer: Mark Clegg In 1963 a year before their magnum opus Fiddler on the…
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CD REVIEW: Bright Star – Original Broadway Cast Recording
Writer: Steve Martin Music: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell Lyrics: Edie Brickell Reviewer: Holly Spanner Having played the banjo from…
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CD REVIEW: Jasper in Deadland – Premiere Cast Recording
Writer: Hunter Foster and Ryan Scott Oliver Music and lyrics: Ryan Scott Oliver Reviewer: Ruth Jepson Basically a modernised retelling…
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CD REVIEW: Paint Your Wagon – 2015 Encores! Cast Recording
Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner Reviewer: Mark Clegg If asked to name the musicals of Lerner and Loewe,…
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CD Review: Ms. A Song Cycle – Concept Recording
Music: George Stiles, Amy Bowie, Paul Boyd, Tamar Broadbent, Brian Lowdermilk, George Maguire, Eamonn O’Dwyer, Gianni Onori, Robert Sherman, Luke…
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