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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Menopause, April 14, 2006
This cd is awsome. You will laugh at the way the words were changed to fit the theme. I did have the pleasure to see the play it was even better. Please if you have the chance see the play and buy the music. Do so!! If you are a female it's doomed to happened to you one symptom or another sooner or later. With the way things are today I look for ever chance to have good clean fun. This is one of them, I would love for them to put the play on dvd. I'll be first in line to buy one.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious-it keeps me laughing!, March 1, 2007
When you just seem to be having a bad day, pop this in and you're guaranteed to laugh. I laugh so hard my cheeks hurt. The words are hilarious. I saw the play, too, which makes the CD even funnier! I bought one for my car and one for my home. Every woman needs to either see the play, or listen to the CD. Truly funny as heck. It'll have you SMILING from ear to ear! You quickly learn the words so you're singing along and enjoying yourself! Ladies, it's inevitable, so find some humor in it. It'll help bring you through it, I'm telling you!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not quite as good as on stage, January 13, 2008
Word of mouth and buzz helped make "Menopause" a sleeper stage hit with middle-aged women. This CD is mainly sold at the theatres that book the show on the nights they're on in the lobby. This is the original cast (the usual case in this of release), so the end result can be different than of the actresses on the leg that perform in your area. Don't expect a bunch of female Weird Als or "Capitol Steps"/"SNL"/"Mad TV" types. The instrumentation is slightly amateurish, low budget, and weak. For "My Husband Sleeps Tonight", a parody of the cringey oldie "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", no credit is given to Solomon Linda, whose family fought for his recognition and residuals. Some parodies keep the same titles as the songs they lampoon, like Tina Turner's comeback "What's Love Got to Do with It?". That almost defeats the purpose.
Most men and younger women may not relate to the lyrics that Jeanie Linders wrote from experience. They refer to symptoms like hot flashes, ageing, night sweats, cramps, insomnia, mood swings, restlessness, binge eating, testy temper, becoming like their mothers; you name it! Then again, maybe some things we all might get! Because of the adult nature of these songs, I wouldn't play them around small children.
For the UK edition, Iowa Housewife becomes Rutland Housewife (Rutland could refer to Eric Idle's "Rutland Weekend Television", which makes some sense here), and the ladies meet at Mohamed Al-Fayed's world famous department store Harrod's instead of New York City's Bloomingdale's, and there are other regional variations around the world in contrast to the America-centric flagship. Hopefully, they'll all release their own editions.
There have been two annual sold-out residencies to date in my town (and maybe yours as well), and it's always a rave. Going to the show can't always be immortalised onto a studio recording.
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