Track listing DISC 1: ACT 1: 1. I'm Looking For Something, Baby 2. Goin' Downtown 3. Takin' the Long Way Home 4. Move (You're Steppin' on My Heart) 5. Scene: Fifty Bucks Says the Dreamettes Don't Win 6. Fake Your Way to the Top 7. Scene: It Ain't Working, Marty 8. Cadillac Car 9. Cadillac Car (On the Road) 10. Cadillac Car (Recording Studio) 11. Scene: "I Don't Believe They Can Do That" 12. Steppin' to the Bad Side 13. Scene: I'm Working on a Long Shot 14. Party, Party 15. I Want You Baby 16. Scene: I'm a Woman Now 17. Family 18. Scene: What Are You Doing to That Girl? 19. Dreamgirls 20. Press Conference 21. Heavy 22. Walkin' Down the Strip/Scene: Las Vegas 23. It's All Over 24. And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going DISC 2: ACT II: 1. Opening Act II: Dreams Medley 2. Scene: Effie White Is the Best Singer You're Gonna Find 3. I Am Changing 4. Vogue Sequence 5. When I First Saw You 6. Ain't No Party 7. I Meant You No Harm 8. Rap, The 9. I Miss You, Old Friend 10. One Night Only 11. One Night Only - (Disco Version) 12. I'm Somebody 13. Hard to Say Good-Bye 14. Dreamgirls - (Reprise) Details Producer: Tommy Krasker Distributor: WEA (Distributor) Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album notes Music written by Henry Krieger. Lyrics by Tom Eyen. Principal cast includes: Heather Headley (Lorrell Robinson); Audra McDonald (Deena Jones); Lillias White (Effie Melody White); Darius De Haas (C.C. White); Norm Lewis (Curtis Taylor, Jr.); Billy Porter (Jimmy Early); Tamara Tunie (Michelle Morris); James Stovall (Marty). Recorded live at The Ford Center For The Performing Arts and The Hit Fctory Studios, New York, New York between September and November 2001. Includes liner notes by Tommy Krasker and Frank Rich.
Harmonia Mundi France HMC 901308.09, UPC 093046130824, made in West Germany with 80 page booklet of notes and full text in English, French, and German. William Christie conducts Les Arts Florissants and many soloists in The Fairy Queen, by Henry Purcell. 1989 DDD recording.
The Fairy-Queen (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a masque or semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular". The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's wedding comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. First performed in 1692, The Fairy-Queen was composed three years before Purcell's death at the age of 35. Following his death, the score was lost and only rediscovered early in the twentieth century.
Following the huge success of his operas Dioclesian (1690) and King Arthur (1691), Purcell composed The Fairy-Queen in 1692. Purcell's "First" and "Second Music" were played while the audience were taking their seats. The "Act Tunes" are played between acts, as the curtain was normally raised at the beginning of a performance and not lowered until the end. After Act I, each act commences with a short symphony (3-5 minutes).
