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Finishing the Act » Craig Rubano

Recording Details

Date: 1999
Type: Audio / Vocal Recording
Language: English
Lyrics: Lee Adams (45), Marshall Barer (11), Leslie Bricusse (59), George M. Cohan (16), Joe Darion (18), Fred Ebb (105), Sherman Edwards (3), William Finn (25), Oscar Hammerstein II (223), Sheldon Harnick (75), Jerry Herman (112), Alan Jay Lerner (149), Anthony Newley (57), Cole Porter (311), James Rado (13), Gerome Ragni (13), Richard Rodgers (374), Stephen Sondheim (293), David Zippel (22)
Music: Jerry Bock (78), Leslie Bricusse (59), George M. Cohan (16), Cy Coleman (107), Sherman Edwards (3), William Finn (25), Jerry Herman (112), John Kander (126), Mitch Leigh (24), Galt MacDermot (34), Cole Porter (311), Mary Rodgers (22), Richard Rodgers (374), Stephen Sondheim (293), Charles Strouse (98)
Conductor: David Friedman (34), Ted Sperling (23)
Music Director: Scott Barnes (7)
Producer: Scott Barnes (7), Craig Rubano (10)
Performer: Marsh Hanson (3), Catherine Hickland (2), Andrea McArdle (27), Alice Ripley (36), Craig Rubano (10)
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Format: CD
Label: The Orchard 3976
Released: 2000-03-18
Barcode: 669910397626
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Length: 1:00:05
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Tracks:
1. Give My Regards to Broadway [Little Johnny Jones]
  Welcome to the Theater [Applause]
2. Anything Goes [Anything Goes]
3. The Impossible Dream [Man of La Mancha]
4. Before the Parade Passes by [Hello, Dolly!]
  Take the Moment [Do I Hear a Waltz?]
5. You're Nothing Without Me [City of Angels] -- Craig Ruano and Jeff Harnar
6. There's Always One You Can't Forget [Dance a Little Closer]
7. Who Can I Turn To? [The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd]
  My Own Best Friend [Chicago]
8. All At Once You Love Her [Pipe Dream]
  Song of Love (I'm in Love with a Girl Named Fred) [Once Upon a Mattress]
  Dear Friend [She Loves Me]
  Nobody Told Me [No Strings] -- Craig Rubano, Catherine Hickland, Andrea McArdle and Alice Ripley
9. Sunday [Sunday in the Park with George]
10. Where Do I Go? [Hair]
11. Now You Know [Merrily We Roll Along] -- Craig Rubano and Marsh Hanson
12. Momma, Look Sharp [1776]
  Father to Son [March of the Falsettos]
13. Climb Ev'ry Mountain [The Sound Of Music]

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Posted 2008-02-21 23:03:26:
Amazon.com: One might expect that an album entitled Finishing the Act: Act One Finales from Broadway would get a little heavy with a constant bombardment of curtain-closing bombast. While it's true that Craig Rubano includes plenty of rousing numbers, including "You're Nothing Without Me" (with a guest appearance by sound-alike Jeff Harner) and "My Own Best Friend," he also offers plenty of variety. Unfortunately, some of it is in the form of smooth-jazz-type arrangements or a "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" set to a drum-machine-like waltz beat and backed by an artificial-sounding multitracked female trio. Rubano also offers a Spanish translation of "The Impossible Dream" and a multitracked "Where Do I Go?" Other guest appearances are by Catherine Hickland, Andrea McArdle, and Alice Ripley (all of whom appeared on Broadway in Les Misérables opposite Rubano's Marius), and Marsh Hanson. Rubano searched through 250 different Broadway shows to find these 20 songs and he's a talented singer, so give him an A for effort, even if some of the arrangements make the end result a bit uneven. --David Horiuchi > 2 Comments

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