Song of the Day: Moving Uptown

I went to go see the Columbia College production of The Wild Party yesterday and was extremely impressed. It's been a while since they've done a show there that was THAT WELL SUNG. If nothing else it sounded fantastic, but of course there are many many other qualities about it that make it worth seeing. One performance that I particularly loved came from the talented young actress playing Dolores. The role was written specifically for Eartha Kitt so I wasn't sure that anyone was going to be able to live up to that. I mean Kitt is a legend and it was written for that type of personality. Not only did this young actress pull it off she completely blew me away and she is definitely one of the highlights of the show. I will be going to see the opening night performance on Saturday so perhaps I will report more then (last nights performance was the invited final dress rehearsal). In the meantime here is a clip of Eartha Kitt singing one of her big songs from the show - Moving Uptown. Fantastic stuff, enjoy!

After seeing this version live I am DYING to do this show. The score is one of the best written in a long long time, even if LaChiusa can't help but want to be Sondheim much of the time. Great great stuff.

Song of the Day: With Cat-like Tread

Well I just got cast as one of the pirates in Pirates of Penzance, so for today's update I figured I would post my favorite song from the show and the one we started learning last night - With Cat-Like Tread.  Penzance is a ridiculous show, but I love the music whole-heartedly.  It's at times brain numbingly complex and at other times idiotically simple.  It's a great Gilbert and Sullivan.  Our production runs at Columbia College Feb 18 through March 1st 2009.  Hope some of you might be able to make it out.  It's going to be a great show.  Enjoy!

Note of Interest: this will more than likely be my last show at Columbia seeing as how I am graduating in May.  It means a lot to me that my last show here will be a Main stage Musical because my very first show at this school was the Main stage Musical Ragtime.  It's been a great four years and I couldn't possibly think of a better way to cap it off.