Opposite You

Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: P.S. Classics
• ASIN: B000BDGVXQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #153,206 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Honeysuckle Rose

2. Harold Arlen Songs (Come Rain or Come Shine, When the Sun Comes Out, Stormy Weather, That Old Black Magic)

3. I Want You to Be...

4. I Got Lost in His Arms/Who Are You Now?

5. Contrapuntal Berlin (Simple Melody, An Old Fashioned Wedding, You’re Just in Love)

6. A Sorta Love Song

7. I Won’t Send Roses

8. The Aba Daba Honeymoon

9. Nellie the Nudist Queen

10. The Natural Order of Things

11. -15. Stephen Sondheim Suite (Happiness, Good Thing Going, Too Many Mornings, Not a Day Goes By, Move On)

12. Opposite You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Opposites - Hmm - I don't think so - Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie are "perfect", November 20, 2005

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Bruce Vieweg (Fargo, ND United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Opposite You (Audio CD)

I am always looking for something new from our Broadway stars. This is a cherished and magnificent find. I've been a fan of Marin Mazie for some time - and somehow her husband - Jason Danieley escaped my awareness even though I'm familiar with his performance in the Full Monty. Here, they are terrific singing together - and alone - Most spectacular - Contrapuntal Berlin, as duets; Jason's rendition of Good Things Going; Jason's I Won't Send Roses; their supurb styling of "Too Many Mornings" from Follies is about the best I've heard anywhere. If you love exceptional singing; wonderful arrangements; and near perfect vocal pairings - Opposite You should not be overlooked.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Marriage is sweet., November 13, 2006

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Aidan Reilly "Mr. OCR" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Opposite You (Audio CD)

I love Jason Danieley.

So there's objective viewpoint out the window.

I mean, really, I adore the man. His voice is perfection to me, and it's what I always hoped mine would grow into. His performances have always been professional and touching, and oh! that voice! His wife doesn't lack for talent, either.

And now the steel-throated couple is together at last on a duets album.

While there's nothing really wrong with the album, these two are amazingly talented, and they can do better than a lot of what's on display here. About a quarter of the songs are neither good nor bad. They're just... there. However, when these two are good, they're very, very good. The Sondheim medley that closes the album is pure bliss - these two were born to sing his words and music. Danieley offers a simply gorgeous "Good Thing Going/Too Many Mornings", Mazzie responds with a rendition of "Not a Day Goes By" that actually doesn't pale in comparison to Bernadette Peters' version, and the two come together in a rapturous performance of "Move On" from Sunday in the Park with George that almost erases the memory of Mandy Patinkin from the original Broadway cast.

Individual songs of note are "The Natural Order of Things", a sadly pretty rumination on age and change that benefits from some truly moving lyrics and musical phrases, the endearingly goofy "Nellie the Nudist Queen", and Harold Arlen's "Honeysuckle Rose", a well-chosen album opener.

It's worth a look if you're a fan of either singer. And as an album from Broadway performers, its mix of Arlen and Sondheim is a refreshing change from the usual Wildhorn/Webber/Boublil-Schönberg selections that riddle similar debuts.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ULTIMATE BROADWAY TRIBUTE !, November 15, 2005

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Guy Halliday (patterson, new york United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Opposite You (Audio CD)

FROM TWO OF THE MUSICAL THEATRE'S BEST VOICES COMES THIS FABULOUS CD. EVERY SONG AND MEDELY IS ARRANGED AND SUNG TO THE ENTH DEGREE....MARIN'S "A SORTA LOVE SONG" GAVE ME A SHIVER DOWN MY BACK, JASON'S " I WON'T SEND ROSES" BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY CHEEK, "ABA DABA HONEYMOON" PUT A HUGE SMILE. THREE SONGS IN A ROW THAT I CAN T STOP LISTENING TOO! THANK-YOU BOTH FOR THE EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT , I LOVE IT ! IT'S JUST WHAT I WANTED!!!!!EVERYBODY BUY THIS CD TODAY!
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