Dress Casual

Mandy Patinkin | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (July 1, 1991)
• Label: CBS/Sony
• ASIN: B00000271Q
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #387,219 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Doodle Doo Doo

2. When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along

3. Tschaikowsky

4. On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe

5. Bein' Green

6. Triplets

7. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows

8. If You Can Find Me, I'm Here

9. I Remember

10. When

11. Take Me to the World

12. Great Big Town

13. You Mustn't Kick It Around

14. I Could Write a Book

15. Happy Hunting Horn

16. What Do I Care for a Dame

17. Do It the Hard Way

18. I'm Talking to My Pal

19. Sorry-Grateful

20. Being Alive

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative...Beautiful...Spellbounding, September 23, 2001

By 

L. Chandler (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dress Casual (Audio CD)

I can not attempt to begin writting about this album. It is reminds me of what I forgot music could accomplish... "Show Me the World" is breath taking. I simply love this album, it combines standards with rare matterial, and frankly I can't say enough. Mandy and Bernadette Peters together on a few tracks- who could ask for anything more? The orchestations(sp) are mystical and magical, and...and... what can I say? You like Mandy? You love this album. The music can be soft and gentle and emtional, or fast paced and occsionaly silly. If you like muscials, I mean really *good* musicals, and appreciate talent, buy this album. If you do not like it, I will be surprised. Truely.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mandy does..., March 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dress Casual (Audio CD)

...dress casual, that is. At his concerts, Mandy lets nothing distract from the music--no fancy stage costume & set--just his comfortable old black t-shirt, slacks, & sneakers, a hands-free microphone, stool, piano, & accompanist on a bare stage. Dress Casual started out as a Broadway show, & I just happened to be in NYC when it was playing. Did I go see it? Nope--I had no idea who Mandy Patinkin was then. If I had, I wouldn't have been on line for 7 hours to get standby tickets for Phantom of the Opera! Mandy's 2d album finds him in top form, & highlights include previously unrecorded songs from Stephen Sondheim's little-known musical, Evening Primrose. Mandy is joined by fellow Broadway baby, Bernadette Peters, in some stirring duets. Peters & Patinkin are well-matched & exciting to listen to in this tale of a poet who takes refuge from the world in a department store & the mannequin come to life that he falls in love with. Other standout numbers include the nostalgic & lushly orchestrated "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," (introduced by Judy Garland in the "The Harvey Girls"). Mandy, ya done Judy proud! Singing on all 3 tracks, Mandy races through "Triplets," the novelty number from "The Bandwagon," at about triple the original tempo--whew! He also pays tribute to the original "Music Man," Robert Preston, in "Trouble in River City." And there's always Sondheim & then, some more Sondheim on Mandy's albums. If ever there was a singer's composer...the wrenching "Sorry/Grateful" segues into a bravura performance of "Being Alive" -- "someone to know me too well/someone to hurt me too deep/someone to sit in my chair/& ruin my sleep/& make me aware of being alive..." There are so many show stoppers on this album that you'll find yourself hitting the repeat button as a matter of course. If you've only heard Mandy sing snatches of songs on Chicago Hope, then you haven't heard Mandy sing. Let 'er rip!!!!!!!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dress casual... and enjoy., August 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Dress Casual (Audio CD)

From the near-lullaby "Doodle-doo-doo" to the rollicking "Trouble in River City" performed with the Harlem Boys Choir, "Dress Casual" is a wonderful blend of music - I've never owned an album I've played more. The songs chase tails around in my head for hours after I've turned off my stereo. Mandy Patinkin has the most soothing voice of any singer alive, and yet has a power and beauty to rival any opera star. "Dress Casual" is like a full-body massage that can, quite literally, go on forever.