Bounce Soundtrack CD

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 All bounce, little bite
The music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim are leagues ahead of the competition in style, melody, intelligence and theatrical verve. He works with the best book writers, orchestrators, designers, directors and singer/actors in the business. "Bounce" is pure, competent, sing-a-long Sondheim with a book by the brash and sharp playwright John Weidman(Pacific Overtures, Assassins). The score might be a little complicated to the novice listener but to Sondheim fans its familiar and delightful territory where the story is told with melodic twists, turns and tangents that sometimes soar with two or three songs destined for the permanent Sondheim Song Book. Even with twenty or so songs, though, the score is too short and lacks ethereal orchestral passages that might have better impacted the story and carried the music to a little higher level. No new musical ground is covered in a score where the composer almost satirizes himself. Act two has a gaping hole in it with the absence of a big song. The cast and orchestra are superb in every talented detail. The CD package is poorly done with next to no information about the cast and no production photos. All in all, "Bounce" is high art bound to satisfy serious musical theatre listeners.
Submitted by johnk (Fairbanks, Alaska, USA) 
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