Title: Not perfect but worth a listen
Product review: Nobody can approach the magic of the Original Broadway Cast for performances - Dorothy Collins in particular. But that recording is severly truncated and has numerous technical glitches. This recording of the 1998 Paper Mill production is technically flawless - the orchestra sounds AMAZING - and it is a nearly complete recording of the score. It even contains alternate songs or songs deleted and replaced along the way. For those reasons alone, this is a touchstone for Sondheim fans. On the minus side, the vocal performances here are uneven. Ann Miller has a great(albeit croaking)good time with I'm Still Here and Can That Boy Foxtrot. And Liliane Montevecchi rips it up in Ah, Paris. But the rest of the performances I found less exciting. Still . . . . .
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