| Donna Murphy -- SONG OF SINGAPORE -- Comments about the Off-Broadway Cast Recording | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 02:08 pm EDT 03/17/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 02:05 pm EDT 03/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Well, you may be right... - whereismikeyfl 12:56 pm EDT 03/17/21 | |
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| Here's what Mandlebaum wrote for Playbill on 11/08/98: "Those who only know Donna Murphy from Passion and The King and I may not be aware of her flair for madcap comedy, which was lavishly demonstrated in the amusing 1991 off-Broadway musical Song of Singapore. The show also allowed her to show off her remarkable skills as a jazz/scat singer. Unfortunately, Murphy had vocal problems during the run and left the company; by the time DRG made the cast album, Jacquey Maltby was playing Rose, the band singer with memory problems, and posterity was thus deprived of hearing Murphy's uproarious star turn, as good as anything she has done since." Here's what Max Preeo wrote for ShowMusic, Summer 1992: "The recording has a measure of fun, but it isn't the same as if you were attending -- and being part of -- a Song of Singapore performance. The album features Jacquey Maltby, who took over the role of Rose when Donna Murphy left the show. Murphy is not on the recording because it would have required paying both her and Maltby a full week's wages under Equity's cast album rules, which wasn't in DRG's budget. Maltby is completely convincing as the saloon singer, but it does take some of the edge off the recording not to have the performer who received the show's best notices." Charles Wright in The TheaterMania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings, published 2004 says: "this recording . . . features the torchy Jacquey Maltby . . . Donna Murphy, who was in the original cast, is not heard here." Wright gives the recording a one star rating (*) out of a possible five (*****). |
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