La Cage Aux Folles [2010] New Broadway Cast [V2]

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Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - La Cage Aux Folles: New Broadway Cast Recording
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Artist...............: Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge
Album................: La Cage Aux Folles: New Broadway Cast Recording
Genre................: Broadway
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 2010
Ripper...............: NMR
Codec................: LAME 3.98
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Standard, (avg. bitrate: 182kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: , ID3 v2.3
Information..........: http://www.allmusic.com/album/la-cage-aux-folles-mw0002029524


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Tracklisting
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1. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Prelude [02:13]
2. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - We Are What We Are [05:47]
3. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - We Are What We Are (Encore)[01:05]
4. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - A Little More Mascara [05:01]
5. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - A Little More Mascara (Encore)[01:09]
6. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - With Anne on My Arm [04:18]
7. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - With You on My Arm [02:51]
8. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - "Tonight of all nights..."[00:53]
9. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Song on the Sand [04:41]
10. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - La Cage aux Folles [08:11]
11. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - "What I failed to tell you..."[02:39]
12. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - I Am What I Am [03:24]
13. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Entr'acte [00:44]
14. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Song on the Sand (Reprise)[02:06]
15. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - "If you wish to attend..."[00:46]
16. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Masculinity [03:19]
17. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Look Over There [02:54]
18. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Cocktail Counterpoint [02:30]
19. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - The Best of Times [06:53]
20. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Look Over There (Reprise)[01:57]
21. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - 21 La Cage aux Folles (Reprise)[01:32]
22. Kelsey GrammerDouglas Hodge - Finale [03:28]

Playing Time.........: 01:08:30
Total Size...........: 90.35 MB

After the lengthy run of its initial Broadway production, songwriter Jerry Herman and librettist Harvey Fierstein's musical adaptation of the gay French farce La Cage aux Folles had a New York revival in 2004 that did not succeed and was not immortalized on a cast album. But in the early years of the 21st century, Broadway developed a new formula for musical revivals that went something like this: let a venerable American show be mounted in a stripped-down form by a small, off-the-West-End theater in London like the one called the Menier Chocolate Factory; then, import that production to New York while partially recasting it with a well-known television or movie star in one of the lead roles. This formula was followed rigorously with the second Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles, which opened on April 18, 2010. British actor/singer Douglas Hodge was allowed to repeat his performance as Albin/Zaza, the female impersonator, while the part of his more butch life partner Georges was given to American TV star Kelsey Grammer. In the case of La Cage, such stunt casting has a certain validity, since the part was originally played by another TV actor, Gene Barry, and it was written for a non-singer who can just about carry a tune. That certainly describes Grammer, who makes the most of the growl in his speaking voice, but strains to hit the higher notes in songs like "Look Over There." The revival really belongs to Hodge (who won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance), but his distinctly British approach to his character is in a campy, cross-dressing tradition that recalls Benny Hill, Dame Edna, and even (in bits here and there) Tim Curry's Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. Still, even scaled down, La Cage circa 2010 remains a tuneful romp that plays in an era when acceptance of homosexuality is much more on the rise than it was in 1983.