A couple of hours ago, I got back from a shopping trip to Tacoma
to spend most of my Christmas money
(it wasn't difficult). I went to Borders Books & Music and J.W. Pepper (seller of sheet music).
At Borders I bought the original cast recordings of
Fade Out-Fade In (Decca's first CD issue) and
Zanna, Don't! with Jai Rodriguez from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", as well as the New Broadway cast recording of
Little Shop of Horrors! So far, I've listened to
Little Shop and really like it! Okay, it will take me awhile to get Ellen Greene's voice out of my head, but I thoroughly enjoy what Kerry Butler brings to the role. Hunter Foster is very good, too.
At J.W. Pepper, I bought "The Ahrens & Flaherty Songbook," mainly because it has the music to "All Those Christmas Clichés" and I
LOVE this song. It has a couple of songs from
A Man of No Importance (I almost bought that songbook, but decided I was already spending too much) as well as a lot of songs that I already (I have a lot of their show songbooks). The song "I Was Here" is from a project (show?, movie?) called
The Glorious Ones. Has anyone heard of this? I haven't.
The other songbooks that I bought were "The School House Rock! Songbook" (which has songs by Lynn Ahrens) and Jerry Herman's
Miss Spectactular.
Well, now I'm going to put the CDs for the songbooks in my CD player and follow along with the music. If I had access to my piano (it's currently buried under boxes at my sister's house in her extra bedroom), I'd play along with the recordings...well, I could play one hand at a time. I haven't actually been able to play the piano in several years because it's been in storage.
Hopefully within the next few months it will be unburied and accessible.
