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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Musicals - discovered at the library!

I was reminded today not to overlook the public library as a source for great books, movies and music! Haven't trekked out to my library in quite a while and I happened to come across a few CD's of Musicals that I'm eager to listen to!

Jekyll and Hyde - The Musical

Music by Frank Wildhorn, and book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
Based on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ongoing talk of plans to make this into a feature film.

Robert Cuccioli as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, Christiane Noll as Emma

Linda Eder as Lucy

The Woman in White

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel, book by Charlotte Jones,
adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins. Directed by Trevor Nunn

Man of La Mancha
Placido Domingo, Mandy Patinkin, Julia Migenes
(art on right by Fabricio Moraes)
(I'm hoping that the movie adaptation with Robert Duvall moves ahead.)

The King and I
(Julie Andrews, Ben Kingsley, Lea Solanga, Peabo Bryson, Marilyn Horne)

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
(starring Lea Solanga)
(Lea has also starred in Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, The King & I, and Evita
She's done the voices for Disney's Princess Jasmine in Aladdin, and Mulan)
There's a video of her singing Two Words at her wedding.