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| | Applause (Original 1970 Broadway Cast) | | | Music Artist : | | Lee Adams | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Decca U.S. | | Release Date : | | 2000-10-17 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Overture
2. Backstage Babble
3. Think How It's Gonna Be
4. But Alive
5. The Best Night of My Life
6. Who's That Girl?
7. Applause
8. Hurry Back
9. Fasten Your Seat Belts
10. Welcome to the Theatre
11. Good Friends
12. She's No Longer a Gypsy
13. One of a King
14. One Hallowe'en
15. Something Greater
16. Finale
17. Applause -- Charles Strouse (vocal and piano) (bonus track)
18. The Loneliest Man in Town -- Charles Strouse (vocal and piano) - bonus track
19. Smashing N.Y. Times -- Charles Strouse (vocal and piano) - bonus track
20. God Bless -- Charles Strouse (vocal and piano) - bonus track
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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Submitted on: 2009-07-04 |
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A few months ago, I raided a dollar bin and was lucky enough to get a copy of Promises, Promises. I immediately fell in love with the old/new mix of this score: Bacahrach's love ruminations were not rock, but polished torch song, informed by rock.
So, I have been slowly wading into musicals of this period, and picked up Applause. True, this does have some pop/rock mannerisms, circa 1970. But where on Promises, these sound organic to the theme of the show, on Applause, they feel completely grafted onto what is otherwise old school broadway scoring.
On "But Alive," the band jumps from a typical show tune number to a horn interlude that could be from Beyond The Valley of the Dolls. As soon as these rock shadings catch the attention, they are gone without a trace, and it is back to old school stage shtick
Bacalls singing has a strange growl to it. Listen to "Who's that Girl." the lyrics are a bunch of cleches "daddy-o, jumpin jive," as is the music. Bacall shouts out the words in a nicotine voice, as if she does not know whether to sing them natrually, or with a tough gal raz mataz persona.
Compare this to the emotional fluidity Jill O'Hara displayed on Promices: O Hara sounds like a real person, singing about a real person's romance problems. She is communicating with you. Bacall sings in broadway cleches to sing about broadway cleches. You can feel the stage, and yourself in the audiance pit. There is nothing to connect with.
I don't claim to know a lot about classic Broadway musicals, and so perhaps there is something about this i am missing. Maybe i don't understand the whole asthetic.
But I really, really don't like this.
**p.s. It is 3:30 am on the east coast and i am tired, but I have to play Promices Promices, so i can get Applause out of my head before I crash--bill 7/4/09. Good Morning**
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 I BOUGHT THIS USING the mp3 download
Submitted on: 2008-06-12 |
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| I am so happy that this album is available on MP3 downloads....I had the album but lost it in many moves... I saw it in my teens and got a front row seat for 20 bucks...great show & music...Bacall was amazing!..I heard somewhere they're bringing it back to Broadway....wonder who would play the Bacall part? |
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 Applause for Applause!
Submitted on: 2006-07-13 |
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| I recomend this cd to all theater fans. Even the ones who love a great, toe tapping score. The song they sing in titled Applause can be seen in the Bonus Performances on the DVD titled Broadways Lost Treasueres. That is how I first heard of Applause. It was very entertaining! |
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 Lauren Bacall !
Submitted on: 2005-07-09 |
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Based on the classic movie "All About Eve", Lauren Bacall won a Tony for her performance in this great musical.
Best tracks include:
But Alive
Applause [Bonnie Franklin of "One Day At A Time" fame!]
Something Greater
Not all the songs are great, but totally worth the buy! |
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Love it
Submitted on: 2004-04-01 |
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| Love the CD ( I have had the vinyl recording ever since it came out), but wish it could be released on Video or DVD(does anyone out there know if this will ever happen?). I saw the television production with Lauren Bacall and Larry Hagman back in the early 1970's and saw an amateur production of it here in Melbourne as well and having always loved the whole concept of the movie, I feel that it transferred well to the stage. |
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