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Album DescriptionBring home BROADWAY'S NEWEST HIT, LITTLE MERMAID!
The Brand-New Cast Recording of Broadway's Sparkling New Musical featuring the beloved hits from the film PLUS 10 ALL-NEW SONGS from the Broadway Show!
Album Description Based on one of the most beloved Disney films of all time and the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Little Mermaid is the sparkling Disney musical thats is making a splash on Broadway. In a magical kingdom beneath the sea, a beautiful young mermaid named Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. But first, she'll have to defy her father, The King of the Sea, escape the clutches of an evil sea witch and convince a prince that she's the girl with the perfect voice. The Broadcast Cast sails through the show's hits for all ages!
Item Specifications...
Format: Cast Recording
Studio: Disney
Record Label Walt Disney Records & Audio
Format Cast Recording
Dimensions: Length: 5.78" Width: 5.99" Height: 0.38" Weight: 0.23 lbs.
Binding CD
Release Date Feb 26, 2008
Publisher EMI- CMG DISTRIBUTION #36
Age 4-8
ISBN 0012463744 ISBN13 0050087111816 UPC 050087111816
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Little Mermaid, good show, great songs Dec 22, 2009
This was my girlfriends birthday gift. She's a musical theater major at NYU and she did this show as her character study. It's got Beyond My Wildest Dreams, Part of Your World, and my favorite If Only. There is nothing like 4 voices thundering at once. I love this album and especially If Only
A wonderful show Sep 5, 2009
Disney really made a mistake by closing "The Little Mermaid" on Broadway. During the opening number, I knew that this was going to be a fabulous show. The second I got home from NYC I ordered the soundtrack. It's all I've been listening to for the past month. I really hope Disney takes this show on tour. I'd love to see it again. Especially now that I can sing along to all of the fabulous new songs that were added from the movie version!
Beautiful Music, Beautiful Show! Aug 11, 2009
I received the cd very quickly from this site for less than the stores wanted to charge for it, and it sounds wonderful. It brought back many happy memories from the show.
The Little Mermaid Soars to New Heights May 18, 2009
I was somewhat skeptical of this album before I heard it. "The Little Mermaid" was my favorite Disney film growing up and I'd memorized the soundtrack before I was seven. When I heard that they were doing a Broadway version of it I was excited, until I heard some of the bad reviews for it. Since then, I discovered what an amazing job Broadway did with "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast," so I decided to give "The Little Mermaid" a try...
And thank God that I did! "The Little Mermaid" is absolutely AMAZING, hands down. I have to apologize to my childhood memories, but Sierra Boggess has completely replaced Jodi Benson as Ariel in my mind; Sierra has an ethereal, soaring voice that captures all of the magic and youth of her character in a way that Benson never did. Her work on "Part of Your World" would have been enough to win her a Tony award had it not been such a competitive year.
The new songs blend so well with the old that listening to the Broadway album is something like swimming into warmer waters in different parts of the ocean -- they intermix very easily. The story is also much more fleshed out here than in the movie, giving Ursula more history and motivation as well as showcasing Eric's feelings for Ariel much more than the movie ever did.
Sean Palmer is a controlled and soaring contralto that injects Prince Eric with new life; Eric's splendid new song "Her Voice" becomes a desperate search for his mysterious rescuer in Palmer's lovely operatic voice. Palmer very nearly outshines his fellow singers in the lovely quartet "If Only."
The excellent casting continues with Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula. Scott's voice is much more bluesy and far more Broadway than the excellent Pat Carroll -- while Carroll was somewhat frightening as Ursula, Scott is a fun villainess that makes her nostalgic singing about ruling over her terrified subjects with black magic and cannibalism a real treat to listen to ("I Want the Good Times Back"). Also, Flotsam and Jetsam have been given a deeply creepy duet "Sweet Child" that aids their characters immensely.
Tituss Burgess is just as good as the original Sebastian, and even Ariel's sisters are given slightly bigger parts as they sing the punchy Broadway head-bopper "She's in Love."
From the delightful new material such as "She's in Love," "I Want the Good Times Back," and "Beyond My Wildest Dreams" to our beloved classics "Part of Your World," "Kiss the Girl," and "Poor Unfortunate Souls;" from the brilliantly wistful "If Only" or "Her Voice" to the deliciously creepy "Sweet Child" and "Poor Unfortunate Souls (Reprise)," "The Little Mermaid" on Broadway is a gorgeous achievement that lulls you gently into its magical world like the ocean rocking you to sleep.
It is a journey well worth taking.
Great! May 9, 2009
I just got this yesterday, and so far I love it! The vocals are awesome: everyone sings incredibly. I gave it only four stars because some of the new songs just don't seem to mesh as well with the original music as I want them to. The songs themselves are all amazing, but a few of them ("I want the Good Times Back", and "Positoovity" especially) just don't seem to fit with the overall sense of the musical. I must say though that growing up with the original Little Mermaid and then recently watching it (a bunch!) with my toddlers has probably closed my mind a little. Sierra Boggess as Ariel is a perfect fit in my mind, a big role to fill because of Jodi Benson's performance in the movie, but she brings enthusiasm and a clear voice that soars when it needs to without losing the character. Sean Palmer as Eric is wonderful. I really love all of the songs they have added for his character and he sings them with a sense of ease and the proper emotions for the role. I really don't think I prefer Sherrie Rene Scott as Ursula...Which sort of makes me sad. I love her in other things, but I just think her voice is too high and clear to fully embody the part. She sings the songs well; vocally she's all there, but I just don't think she carries the same umph that Pat Carroll brings to the movie. My favorite new songs are "She's In Love", "Her Voice", and "Beyond My Wildest Dreams", they fill out musically the story we all know and love. All in all I love the musical and I fully expect for it to grow on me even more as I listen to it.
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