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. Cabaret
by: Original Sound Track
Release Date March 20, 1999
This CD wasn't so much released as it escaped. It has to be the worst recording of the songs from both the show and the film that I have ever heard.
Judi Dench does her usual professional job on her songs, believable, quirky and full of character. However, Jonathan Pryce seems to have no idea of what the MC is about at all. His German accent has been acquired from the "Accents R Us" bargain basket, and he presents none of the menace and joy that are present in the MC's songs. Maria Friedmann is simply winsome in Sally's character songs, though she does work to put across the Englishness of Isherwood's Sally in the Kit Kat Klub songs.
The orchestra is simply too big and cannot give the feel of a theatre show, plus ... Read More:
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