I'm one of the few Broadway aficionados who hadn't heard the score until this album came out (I like bootlegs only if I'm already familiar with a score). I now totally get why people are fascinated by this show. I don't think a lot of the songs necessarily hold up (I find "The World According to Chris" extremely jarring after "Eve Was Weak" and "Unsuspecting Hearts" makes me roll my eyes, but I get why people like them), but oh my God, some of the songs are as good as something from a Sondheim musical. Both "Eve Was Weak" and "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance" (the Margaret section, the "Mama, don't you think it's time..." section and the end should have been separated into a different track just to have the song as a solo for Mazzie) are absolutely thrilling musical theatre. Mazzie is spectacular as Margaret on the recording, I eventually listened to the original bootleg and love Buckley in those numbers as well, both of them great in their own way. I definitely recommend getting the album, it's pretty fascinating stuff.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
