Customer Reviews

Dear Edwina

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This a wonderful show about manners (and piggy banks) that somehow manages to be witty without being preachy or condescending. Highlights: "Knife, Fork Spoon", "Fankenguest" and "RSVP". Highly recommend!

I was highly satisfied with the product. The vendor got the CD to me right away. It was like new. I would highly buy from this vendor again. Thank you for a great experience.

My kids, 5 and 7, have been singing HOLA LOLA for a week and deconstructed each line of lyrics with a world map to figure out all the languages and places. I'm sure we'll get around to the rest of the album eventually, but in the meantime we definitely got our money's worth on DEAR EDWINA!

"Dear Edwina," which is currently enjoying an extended Off-Broadway run, is a pleasant surprise. Tuneful, simple, yet not simplistic, and lightly clever, I enjoyed listening to the cast album very much. The show it can be most closely compared to is "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," with twenty-something actors pretending to be tween-age children. Taking place in Paw Paw, Michigan in the backyard of a neighborhood girl, it's difficult to get any sense of a through-storyline, and the show appears to be simply vignettes of the various characters. Composer Zina Goldrich's score is strongly reminiscent of Alan Menken's more melodic efforts, (especially "The Little Mermaid") while Marcy Heisler's lyrics are wonderfully natural and unintrusive. The performances are first rate throughout, and hardly surprising, since they're all theater veterans: Kerry Butler, Danny Burstein, Andrea Burns, Rebecca Luker, Terrence Mann, Kate Shindle, Sean Martin Hingston, Telly Leung, Lynette Perry and Jeff Blumenkrantz - hard to go wrong with performers like this in your stable. All in all, this was a very pleasant listen, and although none of the songs are currently sticking in my brain, it's a cast album I'll definitely listen to more than once or twice.

This is a perfectly charming musical solution to modern etiquette that isn't just table manners, but how to get along in today's world. The music is so diverse as is the approach, that there's a style for everyone.
Please and thank-you is a good start and this takes you beyond that with a sense of humor and common sense.

If I'd heard these tinkly little songs and their meretricious lyrics when I was a kid, I would have broken the record. A musical to teach little bourgeoise boys and girls how to set a table and to rsvp, as told by a tiny control freak? Blech! The music resembles a string of television commercial ditties. The cast of Broadway regulars is way too good for the material, and their belting style only makes matters worse. I'd read a glowing review of this cd on [...] which led me to believe it was a somewhat milder sort of "Avenue Q." The Sesame Street folks do this material with infinitely more wit and variety.