Broadway Love Story

Christiane Noll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1998)
• Original Release Date: August 25, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00000ADK0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,613 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening/Wherever He Ain't/No More

2. Times Like This (From Lucky Stiff)

3. Tonight at Eight/Look at That Face (From She Loves Me/The Roar of ...)

4. Things Are Looking Up/Nice Work If You Can Get It

5. You're Just in Love [From Call Me Madam]

6. A Quiet Thing

7. Twenty-Four Hours of Lovin' (From the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)

8. Unexpected Song/The Last Man in My Life (From Song & Dance/Tell Me ...)

9. Who Are You Now?

10. Marry Me a Little

11. Good Thing Going (From Merrily We Roll Along)

12. Now When the Rain Falls

13. I Don't Remember Christmas

14. The Next Time It Happens

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This review does not suck!, March 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Broadway Love Story (Audio CD)

The concept of this cd - taking Bway standards and weaving them into a musical storyline - initally seemed, well, a bit pushed. Sure, I loved some of the songs, but would I like A Girl Could Use A Dog on the same cd as 24 Hours of Loving?

Well, I did - I do. Christiane's voice not only has purity of sound, it has expression and interpretation - a combination that is quite rare in todays megamusical-plug-in-the-one-that-fits-the-dress-and-sounds-exactly-the-same-as-the-last-eighty-who played-it world we, unfortunately, live in today.

What we are seeing, and hearing, in this work is an artist who can make you feel like YOU are the best friend listening to the elation and depression as it occurs, it is a personal story told to another PERSON. NOT a random belt- your- brains- out- so- we- all -know- you- can- sing- loud - NO..a witty, empathic, portrayal that speaks as an individual, TO an individual.

Can she be loud? Yes. Can she be funny? Undoubtedly. Sexy? Almost embarrassingly so. Is this a cd to pass by? Definitely not. It is an absolute must for those who consider themselves Broadway elitists, as well as for those who long for a good cry followed by a giggle.

Christiane Noll is a force that we have not heard the last from, and we will never hear enough of.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Broadway Love Story Worth Listening To, December 27, 2000

By 

George Dellagiarino (Reston, Va. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Broadway Love Story (Audio CD)

Let me start out by saying that I absolutely love Christiane Noll. I first heard her, and then saw her, in the Broadway performance of "Jekyll and Hyde". I actually bought this CD when it first came out. Like the shows that she appears in, this CD tells a story and each song is a story within a story as it describes, in music, a lady's journey from the end of one relationship to the end of another. And yet the songs are diverse and are not all "girl" songs - guys can relate to them as well. My favorites were "Now when the rain falls" and "The next time it happens", although she obviously has the most fun singing "24 hours of loving". This is a great album by a young "singer's singer". You'll find that you will end up seeking some of the soundtracks of the shows that many of these songs come from. And that is high praise indeed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 14 Scenes - One Spectacular Show, June 23, 2000

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Harvey Eccleston - See all my reviews

This review is from: Broadway Love Story (Audio CD)

14 Scenes - One Spectacular Show

After hearing Christiane's performance in Jekyll and Hyde, I picked up a couple of other discs, Sondheim at the Movies, which featured Ms. Noll performing a song entitled Sand and another recording, The Burt Bacharach Album in which she sings One Less Bell to Answer. As a result of her exceptional vocals on all three recordings, I anxiously awaited her solo debut.

What impressed me most about her CD A Broadway Love Story, is that it is a compilation of songs, all from Broadway shows, that tell the story of a love affair - from start to finish and back to wiser beginnings.

Some of the reviews I've read indicate that many of the songs are not particularly noteworthy. It seems clear to me that choosing songs from Broadway productions to tell a love story would be a challenging task and if some don't happen to come from popular Broadway shows, well...

And while the shows may not be familiar to many, I'd hardly call Stephen Sondheim, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, John Kander and Fred Ebb, and Marvin Hamlisch "unknown" composers.

I love this CD. And I love what Christiane has done with these marvelous songs. It takes more than a pretty voice to carry this kind of project; it takes an ability to act as well. Each song is like a mini-show all its own and combined they tell a complete story. And quite frankly, isn't that what a Broadway musical sets out to achieve?

I highly recommend this terrific CD produced by Bruce Kimmel, who also produced Sondheim at the Movies and The Burt Bacharach Album.