Listen To My Heart

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/16/03 at 10:57am

I went last night. I was blown away by this review.
Wonderful music and very talented singers.
Alix Korey was brilliant.
Run and see it.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 10/16/03 at 11:02am

I'm seeing it in a few weeks. I can't WAIT for this.
I'm so sorry I have to miss Alix & David at CHATTERBOX tonight. I have too many things dovetailing tonight.

[Nydiva]

Posted: 10/16/03 at 11:38am

Great!

I have front row for Sunday. I've liked Alix Korey ever since I first saw her in Pirates of Penzance (eons ago) and I couldn't possible miss seeing the very nice Joe Cassidy (which was my reason for going in the first place).

Nydiva

[EffieWhite]

Posted: 10/16/03 at 6:36pm

The show is great--the cast is great. I especially loved Allison Briner who is new to me. Great voice--great actress.
(I just used the same adjective four times---sorry!)

[Schmack]

Posted: 10/16/03 at 11:04pm

David Friedman!?! I just found out about this guy like a week ago, and I ordered his cd from the website. I'm looking forward to it...anyone wanna post a review of the show? Visit the link I'm including for info and sheet music and recordings!

PS - anyone heard "Trick Of Fate" from the movie Trick? It's a very good song recorded by Valerie Pinkston I think is her name.


www.middermusic.com

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/16/03 at 11:09pm

when does the cd of the show come out? I own his other cd that he has -- I call it the official bootleg cd as some of the recordings were done live.
And I do not care if I get picked on... but in that cd "I'll Be Here for You"-- Kathie Lee Gifford does the song "Face Your Own Music" and I was totally blown away by her singing of it.

[catcher]

Posted: 10/16/03 at 11:45pm

I have to say -- I really liked this for a cabaret act, but it was nothing more.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/16/03 at 11:48pm

I am sure it is not a musical... it is in the space where the Kinsey Sicks where. (WHOM I ADORE TO REESE'S PIECES)

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/17/03 at 2:23pm

The music is wonderful. It is not a big broadway show but it will warm your heart.
I really enjoyed the music.

[robbiej]

Posted: 10/17/03 at 3:17pm

If only Nancy LaMott was still around.

The definitive interpreter of Mr. Friendman's music!

[WOSQ]

Posted: 10/17/03 at 3:30pm

I spent two hours thinking of Nancy Lamott while watching Listen To My Heart. One of the singers resembles her too much.

The biggest problem with the show is that she is not there. The singers who are there are good but they need find why they are special.

Nancy was quoted in an interview the final months of her life as saying the reason she thought that people responded to her singing was that it was not a perfect voice--that the listener could hear a person in there. No digital cleanup for her.

Still its a good songbook.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/17/03 at 3:42pm

Alix Korey blew me away.
So did the rest of the singers. What night did you attend?

[Rosamund]

Posted: 10/24/03 at 12:13pm

IMHO
Allison is amazing. She's been on Les Miz tour (locket hag), Titanic tour, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Forbidden Hollywood & Broadway, Jacques Brel, understudied and went on for Sally Mayes in Pete 'n' Kelly, tons of regional stuff. She's always electric and amazing.

If you’re a fan of David Friedman’s compositions, singing or playing then you’re going to need an oxygen tank and a hankie the size of a bath sheet for this "show".

These performers are easily providing a beautifully crafted "evening" (verses show, of course) of visceral and eternal observations woven in arrangements of soulful music and transcendent voices, all gently invoked with the immediacy that something deeply important is being conveyed: there is a lingering peace when we apply a salve of care, forgiveness and love to each assignment or situation, to each judgment of ourself or others.

(but as I said this is just my teeney tiny humble opinion)
peace, health and ease to all
Listen To My Heart Site

[EffieWhite]

Posted: 10/24/03 at 2:17pm

They are recording both Saturday shows to release a live CD. Don't know when it will be released.
The show got three great on-line reviews--none of the papers reviewed it today.

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 10/24/03 at 2:48pm

Thanks for your review Dame Edna.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 10/24/03 at 9:39pm

Johnathan Frank gave the songs, the composer and the performers a rave. But he did notice one interesting and sad aspect of the staging that bears repeating:

"While the show is well constructed and executed, there is one glaring flaw that is, well, the proverbial elephant in the living room. Given that the writer and director are openly gay and that many of Friedman's songs have become associated with AIDS organizations and charities, it is astonishing, and more than a tad insulting to this viewer, that this aspect was not remotely included in the show and, indeed, appears to have been actively worked against. While physical contact and even mock seduction occurs amongst the women in the show, the men barely even look at each other, even when a song contains a lyric with an overt gay reference. Even more frustrating, however, is what occurs after "Catch Me," a number that leaves (Joe) Cassidy a hunched over emotional wreck. The follow up song, "I Can Hold You," sung by (Michael) Hunsaker, is exactly what it sounds like: a song of comfort. It is largely delivered, however, with Hunsaker's back towards Cassidy, thus giving him no comfort or acknowledgement what so ever. As this runs counter not only to the song and its situation, but also against all human decency whatsoever, it is a puzzling and maddening choice by those involved."

[Rosamund]

Posted: 10/25/03 at 12:49pm

IMHO
you know i'd rather walk across my tongue than criticize someone but Michael is young and this moment in the show is not his greatest. he's REALLY great in what i'd had in mind and the new "take" on two different worlds is fantastic. granted, mark could have had him cross ABOVE the piano to sing I Can Hold You to joe, instead choosing to have him cross down ... i feel like the reviewer is being overly sensitive in saying he makes no reference to joe whatever, that's not true ... michael begins singing the song TO joe but turns center to finish it. there is a brief moment in open your eyes to love when it's almost like the couples are doing a courtship dance and michael approaches allison and then leaves her to go to joe, center, and i attribute the look on allison's face to mean, oh, i guess he's NOT straight, but i have a history of watching too closely what's on allison's face (and it's such a beautiful face) ... i've seen the show four times now and understand a bit of the reviewer's frustrations but i don't think it at all ruins the show ... i was more upset by the overt hetero "action" in urban cowboy, especially on that bronking buck! Updated On: 10/25/03 at 12:49 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/25/03 at 9:40pm

If anyone wants me to listen to their hearts they'll have to provide me with a stethoscope.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/26/03 at 11:44pm

You so funny Dolly! I have about four now that my dad retired from being a docta. (in my best Audrey Voice)