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Kristin Chenoweth capped a rising career in musical theater with her debut solo album, which found her showing off her well-trained soprano in a collection of show tunes, most of which dated to the interwar period. On Irving Berlin's "Let Yourself Go," she tap danced like Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet, and she worked up a torrent of comic anger in Jule Styne's "If You Hadn't But You Did." Then, she switched gears, proving herself a potently romantic figure in the Gershwins' "How Long Has This Been Going On?" and Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine." And so it went. Backed by the Coffee Club Orchestra, the resident backup band for City Center's Encores! series of concert versions of lost musicals, with whom she had worked on Strike Up the Band and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, she recreated one of the Strike Up the Band numbers, the lesser-known Gershwin treat "Hangin' Around With You," abetted by another musical theater veteran who had branched out into TV, Jason Alexander. Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan's previously unheard "The Girl in 14G" allowed her to show off her opera training as well as her scatting abilities, and she fearlessly (and successfully) took on the ghost of Mary Martin by covering "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" from One Touch of Venus. Like an elaborate audition tape, the album seemed designed to suggest that Chenoweth could play any sort of part; sometimes the songs themselves reflected this goal of displaying versatility, notably the obscure Vincent Youmans song "Should I Be Sweet?," in which the singer must bounce back and forth between "sweet" and "hot" personas as she tries to choose between them. But whatever role she undertook, Chenoweth revealed more than enough talent to excel on a dazzling first album.
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Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - Ralph Burns, Orchestrator - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer - Irving Berlin (1888-1989), Composer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer - Bruce Coughlin, Orchestrator - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Jules Styne, Composer - Betty Comden, Lyricist - Adolph Green, Lyricist - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
George Gershwin, Composer - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Ira Gershwin, Lyricist - Robert Fisher, Conductor - Robert Fisher, Arranger - Robert Fisher, Piano - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Robert Fisher, Conductor - Hans Spialek, Orchestrator - Lorenz Hart, Lyricist - Richard Rodgers, Composer - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Ira Gershwin, Lyricist - Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - George Gershwin, Composer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer - Russell Warner, Orchestrator - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Jason Alexander, Performer - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - Ralph Burns, Orchestrator - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Dick Scanlan, Lyricist - Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Jeanine Tesori, Composer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - Ralph Burns, Orchestrator - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Robert Fisher, Conductor - Lorenz Hart, Lyricist - Richard Rodgers, Composer - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Composer - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Ogden Nash, Lyricist - Robert Fisher, Conductor - Kurt Weill, Orchestrator - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Orchestrator - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), Lyricist - Robert Russell Bennett, Orchestrator - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - JEROME KERN (1885-1945), Composer - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Robert Fisher, Conductor - Suzanne Ornstein, Violin - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer - Bruce Coughlin, Orchestrator - Richard Rodgers, Composer - Clay Ruede, Acoustic Cello - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Belinda Whitney-Barratt, Violin - Jill Jaffee, Viola - John Beal, Bass - Lorenz Hart, Lyricist - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - Lee Musiker, Piano
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
VINCENT YOUMANS (1898-1946), Composer - Russell Warner, Orchestrator - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - B.G. Da Sylva, Lyricist - Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Robert Fisher, Conductor - Suzanne Ornstein, Violin - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer - Bruce Coughlin, Orchestrator - Clay Ruede, Acoustic Cello - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Red Press, Clarinet - Albert Regni, Clarinet - Langston Hughes, Lyricist - Belinda Whitney-Barratt, Violin - Ricky Ian Gordon, Composer - Jill Jaffee, Viola - John Beal, Bass - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - Lawrence Feldman, Clarinet - Lee Musiker, Vocal
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - Ralph Burns, Orchestrator - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Richard Dworsky, Composer - Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Lawrence Brown, Lyricist - Gary Fagin, Arranger - Duke Ellington, Orchestrator - Duke Ellington, Composer - Jack Gale, Trombone - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Robert Fisher, Conductor - Robert Fisher, Arranger - Robert Fisher, Piano - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer - Mack Gordon, Lyricist - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Arnold Kinsella, Drums - Jay Berliner, Guitar - HARRY WARREN (1893-1981), Composer - John Beal, Bass - Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - Andy Stein, Violin
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Paul Cremo, Executive Producer - Ralph Burns, Orchestrator - JEFFREY LESSER, Producer - Bobby Troup, Composer - Robert Fisher, Conductor - The Coffee Club Orchestra, Performer - Kristin Chenoweth, Vocal - Kristin Chenoweth, Performer
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Album review
Kristin Chenoweth capped a rising career in musical theater with her debut solo album, which found her showing off her well-trained soprano in a collection of show tunes, most of which dated to the interwar period. On Irving Berlin's "Let Yourself Go," she tap danced like Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet, and she worked up a torrent of comic anger in Jule Styne's "If You Hadn't But You Did." Then, she switched gears, proving herself a potently romantic figure in the Gershwins' "How Long Has This Been Going On?" and Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine." And so it went. Backed by the Coffee Club Orchestra, the resident backup band for City Center's Encores! series of concert versions of lost musicals, with whom she had worked on Strike Up the Band and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, she recreated one of the Strike Up the Band numbers, the lesser-known Gershwin treat "Hangin' Around With You," abetted by another musical theater veteran who had branched out into TV, Jason Alexander. Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan's previously unheard "The Girl in 14G" allowed her to show off her opera training as well as her scatting abilities, and she fearlessly (and successfully) took on the ghost of Mary Martin by covering "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" from One Touch of Venus. Like an elaborate audition tape, the album seemed designed to suggest that Chenoweth could play any sort of part; sometimes the songs themselves reflected this goal of displaying versatility, notably the obscure Vincent Youmans song "Should I Be Sweet?," in which the singer must bounce back and forth between "sweet" and "hot" personas as she tries to choose between them. But whatever role she undertook, Chenoweth revealed more than enough talent to excel on a dazzling first album.
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About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 00:54:39
- Main artists: Kristin Chenoweth
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Jazz
(P) 2001 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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