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Advantages: You get the story just by listening to the CD Disadvantages: Are there any?
I loved every minute of this album. The songs are so catchy and incredibly brilliant! I can definitely see why it won a Grammy in 2004 for the best compilation soundtrack album.
The listing for the soundtrack is as follows:
1. Overture-The Band
2. All That Jazz-Ute Lemper & Company
3. Funny Honey-Ruthie Henshall With Nigel Planer & Cavin Cornwall
4. Cell Block Tango-Ute Lemper & Girls
5. When You're Good To Mama-Meg Johnson With Ute Lemper
... ...Girls
7. A Little Bit Of Good-C. Shirvell
8. We Both Reached For The Gun-Henry Goodman, Ruthie Henshall, C. Shirvell & Company
9. Roxie, Part I: Soliloquy-Ruthie Henshall
10. Roxie, Part II-Ruthie Henshall & Boys
11. I Can't Do It Alone-Ute Lemper
12. My Own Best Friend-Ruthie Henshall & Ute Lemper
13. Finale: Act I-Ruthie Henshall, Henry Goodman & Ute Lemper
14. Entr'Acte-The Band
15. I Know A Girl-Ute Lemper With Ruthie Henshall, Henry ...
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Advantages: Lots of up-tempo music Disadvantages: Sounds too much like a solo Minnelli album
The Act is a musical by my favourite Broadway team of songwriters, John Kander and Fred Ebb, and yet I always find it a little disappointing. Famous for writing Cabaret, Chicago and New York, New York, the two of them supplied a series of star turns for Liza Minnelli, as a nightclub star, and hence the C sounds very much like a Liza album, with a couple of other tracks thrown in.
The songs aren't bad, and some of them are rather good indeed. 'Arthur ... ...perfectly by Liza, and the number sung by the chorus members (presumably while Liza had forty winks to get her breath back), 'Little Do They Know', works very well as an insiders view of being a Broadway-type dancer. There is also a lovely ballad called 'My Own Space', which Minnelli carries off f
