Tracks: 1.I Happen to Like New York
2.The Man with the Child in His Eyes
3.If You Go Away
4.My Romance
5.In the Sky
6.Paris in the Rain
7.Smile*
8.Guess Who I Saw Today?
9.Finishing the Hat
10.A Nursery Rhyme (Toby`s Song)
11.Now and Then
12.Broadway Baby
13.The Man That Got Away
14.Children and Art (with Stephen Sondheim at the piano)*
Format: CD
Released: 1995
Notes: The British release of this album (the alternate cover shown) was called "BROADWAY BABY"
Tracks: 1. I Happen to Like New York
2. The Man With a Child in His Eyes
3. The Golden Days
4. If You Go Away
5. I'm Gorgeous
6. My Romance
7. Songs from the Vilna Ghetto
8. Paris in the Rain
9. Play the Song Again
10. A Nursery Rhyme (Toby's song)
11. The Man That Got Away
12. Guess Who I Saw Today
13. Finishing the Hat
14. Now and Then
15. Broadway Baby
Posted 2008-02-24 18:33:48: Amazon.com: Maria Friedman isn't as well known in America as in her homebase of England, but her stateside fanbase can only grow with this appealing album. Friedman is one of the U.K.'s most-prominent interpreters of Sondheim, and he returns the favor by backing her up on the piano on this CD's last track, his own "Children and Art" (from Sunday in the Park with George, which is also represented with "Finishing the Hat"). Before getting to that song, though, Friedman has been through a well-balanced selection culled from the American Songbook (Cole Porter's "I Happen to Like New York," Rodgers & Hart's "My Romance," Arlen & Gershwin's "The Man Who Got Away") and less-obvious sources such as Kate Bush ("The Man with the Child in His Eyes"), Cora Vaucaire ("Paris in the Rain"), Michel Legrand (the title track), and the anonymous author of 1941's "In the Sky," a young boy from the Vilna ghetto. It's hard to shake a certain mood of reflectiveness—-Friedman mentions in her liner notes the fact that she was diagnosed with breast cancer during the Broadway previews of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White—-but the singer always balances melancholy with a sense of indomitable spirit. --Elisabeth Vincentelli > 2 Comments
