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Description / My Opinion
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Amazon.com - Ordered 01/11/2000 - Send 01/15/2000 - Received 01/29/2000 The booklet contains 3 big and 6 medium sized color nice pictures of the show and a half page introduction by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Here is another recording of this show, of which the Original Broadway Cast may be my favorite recording. It's very hard for me to give an opinion on this recording without comparing with the OBC. Unfortunately, the OBC is so wonderful that the Original London Cast doesn't stand a change. In fact, I'd say that the OBC contains magic, while this one is only a cast recording. What I don't get in this recording that I had found in the OBC: the feeling of being a very little child being told a fantastic story, mixing both sadness and joy. I miss the emotion. I miss the tenderness. I miss the high pure clear voice of La Chanze as Ti Moune. I miss the despair shout from Mama Euralie when she calls 'Bring my Julian home'. The recording sound is OK, the performers are OK, the score is here, but however, I cannot recommend this recording to someone who has not yet listened at the OBC. And once one has listened at the OBC, I wouldn't recommend this recording, because it's far from having the magic of the OBC. I'd say that this recording is only for this musical big fans.
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Musical Numbers
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| 1 | 5:29 | Prologue | Storytellers |
| | | We Dance | Storytellers |
| 2 | 6:10 | One Small Girl | Mama Euralie, Tonton Julian, Little Ti Moune, Storytellers |
| 3 | 3:20 | Waiting For Life | Ti Moune, Storytellers |
| 4 | 1:51 | And The Gods Heard Her Prayer | Asaka, Agwe, Papa Ge, Erzulie |
| 5 | 2:22 | Rain | Agwe, Storytellers |
| 6 | 1:16 | Discovering Daniel | Ti Moune, Storytellers |
| 7 | 5:13 | Pray | Ti Moune, Tonton Julian, Mama Euralie, Guard, Storytellers |
| 8 | 4:14 | Forever Yours | Ti Moune, Daniel, Papa Ge |
| 9 | 3:46 | The Sad Tale Of The Beauxhommes | Armand, Storytellers |
| 10 | 5:00 | Ti Moune | Mama Euralie, Tonton Julian, Ti Moune |
| 11 | 3:28 | Mama Will Provide | Asaka, Storytellers |
| 12 | 2:54 | Some Say | Storytellers |
| 13 | 3:41 | The Human Heart | Erzulie, Storytellers |
| 14 | 2:32 | Pray (Reprise) | Storytellers |
| 15 | 3:17 | Some Girls | Daniel |
| 16 | 1:38 | The Ball | Andrea, Daniel, Ti Moune, Storytellers |
| 17 | 1:35 | Ti Moune's Dance | Ti Moune, Grands Hommes |
| 18 | 2:44 | When We Are Wed | Andrea, Ti Moune, Daniel, Storytellers |
| 19 | 2:20 | Promises | Papa Ge, Ti Moune, Storytellers |
| | | Forever Yours (Reprise) | |
| 20 | 2:05 | Wedding Sequence | Asaka, Ti Moune, Daniel, Storytellers |
| 21 | 3:14 | A Part Of Us | Mama Euralie, Little Ti Moune, Tonton Julian, Storytellers |
| 22 | 3:42 | Why We Tell The Story | Storytellers |
| 23 | 3:43 | The Human Heart (Special Mix) | P. P. Arnold |
The Cast
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| | Erzulie | P. P. Arnold | | | Ti Moune | Lorna Brown | | | Asaka | Sharon D. Clarke | | | Daniel | Anthony Corriette | | | Agwe | Trevor Michael Georges | | | Andrea | Suzanne Packer | | | Mama Euralie | Shezwae Powell | | | Papa Ge | Clive Rowe | | | Armand | Mark Vincent | | | Tonton | Johnny Worthy | | | Little Ti Moune | Monique Mason | | | Little Ti Moune (at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre) | Elizabeth Kerr | | | | Monique Mason |
Interesting Links
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| | Ronni's Ahrens & Flaherty pages | | | GJ Works's pages
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