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#1

Audra McDonald sings "Light in the Piazza" and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 12:22pm

A big thanks to MasterLcZ, who in his post on Jeff Blumenkrantz, pointed me to the NPR website and their webcast of Audra McDonald's "Seven Deadly Sins" concert at Zankel Hall. What a treat to hear this entire concert!

As a special treat, Audra's final selection in the second hour is "Light in the Piazza". Heaven. Pure and simple.

Give yourself a treat and take a listen.


Audra McDonald in Concert
"When you're a gay man, you have to feel good about yourself when a urologist says, "Yeah. I pick you". - Happy Endings

Updated On: 6/23/05 at 12:22 PM

#6

re: Audra McDonald sings 'Light in the Piazza' and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 12:34pm

Darcy - It's working for me on Real Player.

Bobby - I don't think you can download the file as it is a feed from the NPR website. If someone know better than I about such things... please chime in.
"When you're a gay man, you have to feel good about yourself when a urologist says, "Yeah. I pick you". - Happy Endings
#8

re: Audra McDonald sings 'Light in the Piazza' and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 12:44pm

Here's the link, kids...click on the 'NPR' next to the logo for 'Creators at Carnegie'

Here's the song list: As SpongeBob Squarepants says: "ooooh! it's OH-so-good!"

Creators at Carnegie
Audra McDonald/Hour 1 Playlist

"I Double Dare You" (Jimmy Eaton)

"See What I Wanna See" (Michael John LaChiusa)

World Premiere: The Seven Deadly Sins

Anger: "The Christian Thing to Do" (Michael John LaChiusa)

Gluttony: "I Eat" (Lynn Ahrens/Steve Flaherty)

Vanity: "Blah, Blah Me" (Jake Heggie)

Lust: "Burning the Sauce" (Mark Campbell/Steve Marzullo)

[Break Music: "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen)]

Sloth: "My Book" (Jeff Blumenkrantz)

Envy: "Can You Look Me In The Eyes?" (Ricky Ian Gordon)

Greed: "The Greedy Tadpole" (John Pizzarelli/Jessica Molaskey)

***

"Ain't it De Truth" (Harold Arlen)

"Heaven" (Ricky Ian Gordon)

"Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen)

#########################################

Creators at Carnegie
Audra McDonald/Hour 2 Playlist

"I Follow" w/Theresa McCarthy (Giering)

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Arlen/Harburg)

"Your Daddy's Son" (Ahrens/Flaherty)

"Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home" (Arlen/Mercer)

"Dream Variations" (Gordon)

"Song for a Dark Girl" (Gordon)

"Daybreak in Alabama" (Gordon)

"Unexpressed" (Bucchino)

"Stars and Moon" (Brown)

"I Must Have That Man" (Fields/McCue)

"I Won't Mind" (Blumenkrantz/Kessler/Saines)

"Come Down from the Tree" (Ahrens/Flaherty)

"Light in the Piazza" (Guettel/Lucas)



Creators at Carnegie
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

Updated On: 6/23/05 at 12:44 PM

#9

re: Audra McDonald sings 'Light in the Piazza' and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 12:45pm

Thank you - Listening to this is exactly what I needed today.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#11

re: Audra McDonald sings 'Light in the Piazza' and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 12:54pm

I heard this a while ago and was hoping it would be released on CD, but, alas, no.
I have a question, though. Why is Lucas listed with Guettel when Guettel is the composer and lyricist?
PEACE.
#13

re: Audra McDonald sings 'Light in the Piazza' and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 1:58pm

Sueleen - it's just an error. They happen. This concert was last year while she was doing "Raisin" and before "Piazza" even debuted. The announcer also calls Jeff Blumenkrantz "Jake Blumenthal". Clearly the NPR fact-checkers are not all that with it.

It should also be noted that the songlist is not quite accurate. Almost all of the songs in the second hour until "Unexpressed" are taken from recordings and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is actually "Mr. Snow".
"When you're a gay man, you have to feel good about yourself when a urologist says, "Yeah. I pick you". - Happy Endings
#15

re: Audra McDonald sings 'Light in the Piazza' and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 2:26pm

Lucas was never a co-lyricist, although he was not always attached as the book writer. John Guare was originally attached to the project when Guettel first started working on it as part of the composer in residence program at Chicago Lyric Opera. Guettel had a hard time with the time constraints involved with an opera company commission and dropped out of the program, leaving "Piazza" to languish (in the back of a drawer as he noted in his acceptance speech) until Lucas came aboard.
"When you're a gay man, you have to feel good about yourself when a urologist says, "Yeah. I pick you". - Happy Endings

Updated On: 6/23/05 at 02:26 PM

#17

re: Audra McDonald sings 'Light in the Piazza' and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 5:21pm

I think it safe to assume that if Audra picked up the yellow pages of New York City and started singing it, we would all listen. Am I right???

If you have or had the opportunity to see her perform live you know that she breath taking and enraptures every essence of the notes and lyrics she sings.

#18

re: Audra McDonald sings 'Light in the Piazza' and more...

Posted: 6/23/05 at 5:33pm

I love this program. I have "I Eat" and I can't wait until Jeff Blumenkrantz's songbook comes out so I can sing "My Book". I'm excited for her Light In The Piazza
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee "It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza

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