Showboat: Presented By The Chicago Musical Revue [Import, Soundtrack]

Jerome Kern, Classics Of The Stage (Lake Shore/Griffin Series), Oscar Hammerstein II, Show Boat (Related Recordings), Chicago Musical Revue | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Soundtrack
• Label: Griffin Records
• ASIN: B000001LJP
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #928,826 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Life upon the Wicked Stage

2. Nobody Else But Me

3. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

4. Ballyhoo Dance

5. I Might Fall Back on You

6. You Are Love

7. Make Believe

8. Bill

9. Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'

10. Happy the Day

11. After the Ball (CHS K. Harris)

12. Why Do I Love You?

13. Ol' Man River

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not at all good, March 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Showboat: Presented By The Chicago Musical Revue (Audio CD)

I was so disappointed in this cd which, among other things, features a weird salsa version of Make Believe. In my opinion, Make Believe does not lend itself very kindly to salsa. I'm not generally very critical about musicals--I love them one and all--but this well, really, is only disguised as a musical and made everyone who heard it retch in agony. It is not a good CD...unless you're excessively fond of salsa.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars STOP! Don't listen to it!, August 5, 2003

By 

Stephen (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Showboat: Presented By The Chicago Musical Revue (Audio CD)

This CD is an imposter masqerading as a real Showboat soundtrack. These people have taken the Robert Russel Bennet symphonic arrangements and have turned them into a sound that is akin to holding your finger on a record so that is slows to an agonizing tempo distorting the whole sound. It was horrible that the music is performed in a 20's jazz style, sung far to improvisationally and with a hint of blues. Oh and the SALSA! WHAT? I have performed in the Show myself and know the music and love it and was disgusted with this attemt at performing great music. DON'T BY THIS CD!