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Posted: 5/25/07 at 6:24am
I am posting this one because I absolutly loved High Fidelity. Found this very interesting article at EW.COM (might already be on boards but here you go:)
High Fidelity: Original Broadway Cast Recording
(Ghostlight)
Yes, it was the most maligned show of 2006. But I maintain that High Fidelity — which opened and closed in less than two weeks last December — was also the most underrated. For proof, pick up the CD, which solves pretty much every problem the show had on stage. (That Bruce Springsteen impersonator sounds a heck of a lot better than he looked.)
Tom Kitt's music, a terrific fusion of pop and Broadway, manages to be both hip and accessible — not to mention insanely catchy. The 'Last Real Record Store on Earth' opening sucks you in with its toe-tapping melody...and then you notice Amanda Green's slacker-cum-sophisticate lyrics: 'Nothing's great and nothing's new / Nothing has its worth/ Meet the real go-getter with the thrift-store sweater in the last real record store on earth.' The momentum continues with 'Desert Island Top 5 Breakups,' lags a bit with the new age-y 'Ian's Here,' but picks up again with the brilliantly ironic codependent ballad 'Ready to Settle' ('You're just like me / Alone and sad / And in this light / You don't look so bad / I've had the best, now I need a rest / Just someone who'll do, and I'm ready to settle for you'). High Fidelity will probably only be remembered as a footnote to the 2006-07 Broadway season, but the original Broadway cast recording may well become one of your desert-island discs. B+
High Fidelity: Original Broadway Cast Recording
(Ghostlight)
Yes, it was the most maligned show of 2006. But I maintain that High Fidelity — which opened and closed in less than two weeks last December — was also the most underrated. For proof, pick up the CD, which solves pretty much every problem the show had on stage. (That Bruce Springsteen impersonator sounds a heck of a lot better than he looked.)
Tom Kitt's music, a terrific fusion of pop and Broadway, manages to be both hip and accessible — not to mention insanely catchy. The 'Last Real Record Store on Earth' opening sucks you in with its toe-tapping melody...and then you notice Amanda Green's slacker-cum-sophisticate lyrics: 'Nothing's great and nothing's new / Nothing has its worth/ Meet the real go-getter with the thrift-store sweater in the last real record store on earth.' The momentum continues with 'Desert Island Top 5 Breakups,' lags a bit with the new age-y 'Ian's Here,' but picks up again with the brilliantly ironic codependent ballad 'Ready to Settle' ('You're just like me / Alone and sad / And in this light / You don't look so bad / I've had the best, now I need a rest / Just someone who'll do, and I'm ready to settle for you'). High Fidelity will probably only be remembered as a footnote to the 2006-07 Broadway season, but the original Broadway cast recording may well become one of your desert-island discs. B+
I made a list of all your faults, it was quite detailed and lengthy too and when I read it through I missed you. Your like a classic Eagles song, you just cant help but sing along even though it sometimes gets annoying too. I just know I want to be wherever I can wake and see you there next to me. **High Fidelity**
Love is what I do **The Wedding Singer**
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