Sundown (2004 Studio Cast Recording) [Cast Recording, Soundtrack]

Peter Link | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 1, 2004)
• Original Release Date: December 1, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
• Label: Original Cast Records
• ASIN: B00076TC5Q
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #528,125 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Peter Filichia, Newark Star-Ledger and Theatermania.com

"A score that's brave, courageous, and bold -- with some beautiful ballads to boot."

Ten Best Theatre CDs 2004: "An incredibly strong and highly listenable album."

"Peter Link has written a score that mixes to beautiful effect country-western strains with a pop sensibility."

Product Description

Studio Cast Recording of a musical about the legendary Doc Holliday, featuring Steve Blanchard, Judy McLane, Patrick Ryan Sullivan, Joe Lutton, Dennis Deal, Robert Aronson, Jimmy Bennett, Peter Link, Julia Wade, and Jeffrey C. Wolf. Music by Peter Link (King of Hearts), Lyrics by Larry Rosler, Book by Joe Bravaco and Larry Rosler.

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Musical Theater Excellence!, April 16, 2005

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Frank G. Wyszomirski "aficionado" (Binghamton. NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sundown (2004 Studio Cast Recording) (Audio CD)

Somebody put this on a stage! It has everything a great musical has always had: a well-integrated and tuneful score with an involving story that alerts you to the fact that you've just experienced something worthwhile in the American theater.
Add to that, from sheerly the technical standpoint, a beautifully-recorded CD with a cast that conveys so much character that you'll swear you're actually watching a performance instead of just listening to it, and you've got more than enough reasons to acquire it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars charmed! by melodies and voices, January 26, 2005

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HSLee "Laughter brings happiness" (Global Trotter) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sundown (2004 Studio Cast Recording) (Audio CD)

I have recently had a chance to see "Beauty and the Beast," a NY Broadway Musical. Indeed, I have watched the same show in London years ago and I was very impressed by the beautiful songs. But, then, the musical experience just got cooled as a memory after many years.

To my surprise, when I saw the musical for the second time, I was amazed by how much I was getting into the character, the Beast. His acting and his stunning confident, and, most of all, talented voice made me wonder who was behind the furry face and thick costumes with a big tail.

I did my research and found out that the role of the beast was played by Steve Blanchard (www.steveblanchard.net)and, to be honest, I remember he surpassed the other talented actors/actresses on the same stage that night having the audience's eyes glued to his performance. That was such an unexpected surprise to me, the second time viewer.

Unfortunately, Amazon.com only offered 1994 Original Cast recording of "Beauty and the Beast" and it does not include Steve Blanchard & Brooke Tansley (performed Belle- almost equally talented but shadowed by Steve Blanchard's performance)'s charming voices.

So, I searched for another recording he participated and "Sundown" Soundtrack (December 2004) came up as his major and only recording work available on the market nowadays.

And I am thanking the previous review by "openskies" for helping to encourage myself to order this CD. You can now listen to Steve Blanchard's voices all throughout this album as he played as Doc Holliday.

We all know OK Corral story of the Earps and the Clanton Gangs. So I would not put the lengthy story there.

Now, I will inform you of the composer & producer of this album, Peter Link, quoting from the CD cover below. He created jewel songs in this musical. The melodies are really catchy to my ears. And, they are not COUNTRY songs. So, don't pass on this album, just because you never heard of it. Steve Blanchard's voice is just amazing and I wish I could get more of his recorded works.


...Sundown was first presented in 2001 as a staged reading at the York Theatre, directed by Richard Sabellico. It was developed in the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop. Sundown premiered in 2002 at the Lyric Stage, Irving, Texas, where it won a Dallas Drama League Nomination for Best New Play or Musical. It received its East Coast premiere in 2003 at the Barter Theatre, Abingdon, Virginia.

Peter Link has written scores for numerous productions, including the New York Shakespeare Festival's 'Much Ado About Nothing' and Neil Simon's 'The Good Doctor,' both of which earned him Tony Award nominations. Among his other shows are 'King of Hearts'(original Cast Records), 'Salvation,' for which he won a Drama Desk Award, and 'Island,' with book by Joe Bravaco and Larry Rosler.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Way Out West, February 14, 2007

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Scott Laughead - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sundown (2004 Studio Cast Recording) (Audio CD)

I have had bad luck with the current spate of "studio musicals" so I faced this album with some trepidation. But one night,driving home over the Poconos, Link and Rosler's SUNDOWN found its way onto my car's CD player and I returned to the old west via Broadway in the smartest, most tuneful way I could hope for. I've been a lover of theatre music all my adult life and, in the past few years, have discovered the intelligence and power of country music. This score has it all. The score's opener, ARIZONA MORNING catches the beauty of riding along an Arizona highway and the poignancy of saying goodbye to a landscape that no longer works for you. The title song is an elegant expression of what it feels like to accept fate and move into your own oblivion. STAGE FROM PHOENIX, for those of us who remember the joy of production numbers like THE WELLS FARGO WAGON and THERE'S A COACH COMIN' IN, is just the up beat that the second act needs and POISON WATER is one of the most compellingly scarey pieces of musical theatre I've ever heard. For those of you who love the wide open sound of western movie scores, the country anthems of Keith Urban and Kenney Chesney, Broadway "westerns" such as 110 IN THE SHADE, OKLAHOMA!, and DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, the intelligence of new musicals such as PARADE and THE COLOR PURPLE, and don't need a score that sounds like repackaged Sondheim, Link and Rosler's SUNDOWN is IT!