Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0803607086428
Format: Cast Recording
Label: P.S. Classics
Manufacturer: P.S. Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: P.S. Classics
Release Date: 2008-05-27
Studio: P.S. Classics
MPN: 864

A Catered Affair, the new musical with book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and direction by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, poses the question that inevitably faces every mother and daughter: whose wedding is it anyway? It's 1953, and family ties are strained when a Bronx mother struggles to give her only daughter the elaborate wedding she herself never had and the bride never asked for. Based on the 1956 motion picture of the same name, the production stars Tony Award-winner Faith Prince as Aggie Hurley, the mother-of-the-bride, Tony Award-nominee Tom Wopat as 'Tom Hurley,' the father-of-the-bride, and Fierstein himself as Winston, the uncle-of-the-bride. It's a funny, poignant and oh-so-human tale of love and disaffection, and the tender and melodic score to A Catered Affair -- expertly preserved on this original Broadway cast recording -- explores both our need for love and the true meaning of family.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Outstanding Musicalization of a Great Movie
Comment: What a GREAT listen - The Catered Affair has always been a favorite movie - and Harvey Fierstein, et al, translated it to the stage very well. It's a shame it didn't play longer on Broadway.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful musical
Comment: This musical was VERY under appreciated. With every listen, you get more and more out of the words. If you like musicals, you will LOVE this one.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Tasty
Comment: "The Catered Affair" was not a success on Broadway, but the score deserves to be heard. The cast is excellent.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: worth listening to
Comment: I don't see this as ever winning a Tony. The voices are excellent and the story line captures your interest, but I didn't walk away from this humming any of the tunes.

I will recommend that many of my friends listen to this sountrack for the sake of the story line & the production quality, but it will never be one of my top ten

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A very small pleasure
Comment: A very small pleasure, no pretty melodies, no complex story.

The songs allow you to follow the story well. Unfortunately the story is exactly the same as the old Bette Davis movie.

Faith Prince is fine, she has her Bronx accent perfect. Tom Wopat in good voice but his accent is not so satisfying. But Harvey Firestein is terrible! The raspy voice that was such fun in Hairspray is such an annoyance here.

I was disappointed when the show closed before I could get tickets. Now I'm glad I saved the $200.

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