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Elaine Stritch
At Liberty
Release Date: 2002 04 09
Running Time: 116:13
Label: DRG
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Veteran actress/singer Elaine Stritch had a career in musicals, straight plays, movies, and TV dating back to the mid-'40s, and at age 76 she reviews it all on this two-CD album, which is a recorded version of her one-woman show, +Elaine Stritch: At Liberty. Her singing voice has long since become raspy and limited, but her timing and phrasing enable her to put across almost any song effectively. She features her signature songs, from "Civilization" (the novelty in which a monkey expresses a preference for the jungle), which she sang in her first Broadway show, +Angel in the Wings, in 1947, to Noël Coward's witty "Why Do the Wrong People Travel," which she introduced in +Sail Away in 1961, and, inevitably, "The Ladies Who Lunch," her showstopper from Stephen Sondheim's +Company in 1970. Other songs tend to be incidental to the anecdotes she tells, starting with an annotated version of "There's No Business Like Show Business," from which she hangs a series of humorous personal observations. Stritch is unsparing to herself as well as her colleagues, providing an impressionistic autobiography that is revealing, if selective. You would hardly know about her extensive work in television, which goes almost unmentioned, but her major theater credits are all touched on. She is unafraid to discuss her problems with alcohol or with men. Containing entertaining stories concerning such figures as Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Ethel Merman, and Noël Coward, this is an album that will delight anyone interested in the history of theater over the years from the 1940s to the 1980s, as told from the vantage point of one of its more acute, if occasionally addlepated, observers. And though the mere listener is denied the added pleasure of having Stritch on-stage performing it, very little is actually lost in the transfer to disc. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1There's No Business Like Show Business, song (from "Annie Get your Gun"Berlin5:56
2Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Caca2:13
3I Want A Long Time DaddyGrainger2:17
4Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~A Piece of Mahler1:49
5Plain and Fancy, musical play~This is All Very New to MeHorwitt, Hague2:11
6Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Going to New York2:09
7Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Marlon Brando6:36
8Follies, musical play~Broadway BabySondheim3:50
9Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~My First Broadway Show2:15
10Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)Hilliard, Sigman2:31
11Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Ethel Merman:45
12Can You Use Any Money Today?, song (from "Call Me Madam")Berlin2:33
13Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Pal JoeyHart, Rodgers5:05
14Zip, song (from "Pal Joey")Hart, Rodgers7:04
15Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Ben Gazzara3:44
16Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Noël Coward3:30
17Sail Away, musical~Why Do The Wrong People Travel?Coward6:39
18Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Richard Burton2:11
19Work(s) (Medleys)~Medley: But Not For Me/If Love Were AllGershwin, Gershwin5:25
20Follies, musical play~I'm Still HereSondheim7:05
21Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Booze7:37
22Company, musical~Little Things You Do TogetherSondheim5:33
23Company, musical~The Ladies Who LunchSondheim5:00
24Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~John Bay2:52
25Two on the Aisle, musical revue~There Never Was A Baby Like My BabyGreen, Styne, Comden2:42
26I Went To A Marvelous PartyCoward:31
27Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~God So Quickly5:08
28Bells Are Ringing, musical~The Party's OverComden, Green, Styne1:23
29Elaine Stritch At Liberty, play~Absent Almost Always6:57
30Something Good, song (from film score "The Sound of Music")Rodgers, Hammerstein2:42







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