Original Off-Broadway Cast - I Love You Because / O.B.C.
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Track List: I Love You Because / O.B.C.
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- Another Saturday Night In New York - I Love You Because
- Oh What A Difference - I Love You Because
- The Actuary Song - I Love You Because
- ...But I Don't Want To Talk About Her - I Love You Because
- Coffee - I Love You Because
- The Perfect Romance - I Love You Because
- Because Of You - I Love You Because
- We're Just Friends - I Love You Because
- Maybe We Just Made Love - I Love You Because
- Just Not Now - I Love You Because
- Alone - I Love You Because
- That's What's Gonna Happen - I Love You Because
- Even Though - I Love You Because
- But I Do - I Love You Because
- What Do We Do It For? - I Love You Because
- Marcy's Yours - I Love You Because
- Goodbye - I Love You Because
- I Love You Because - I Love You Because
Album Details: I Love You Because / O.B.C.
- Release Date:
- 10/03/2006
- Label:
- P.S. Classics
- UPC:
- 803607064327
Pro Reviews: I Love You Because / O.B.C.
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Austin Bennet, the leading male character of lyricist/librettist Ryan Cunningham and composer Joshua Salzman's musical I Love You Because, is a greeting card writer, which perhaps helps to excuse the clichéd way he expresses himself at the outset of the show. Oddly, he is also a straightlaced, suitandtiewearing Republican, and that makes him an unlikely romantic companion for Marcy Fitzwilliams, a photographer with a more impulsive nature. In addition, both have recently come to the end of romantic relationships, making them hesitant to start again, especially with someone so different from themselves. Such is the show's central conflict, one that annotator David Hirst calls "a modern twist on" Pride and Prejudice, although, in fact, the only things it has in common with the too frequently adapted Jane Austin novel are the "opposites attract" theme and some character names. The key number is "The Actuary Song," in which Marcy's friend Diana Bingley explains with mathematical (and fanciful) precision why she should wait six months before embarking on another relationship. Like an article from Cosmopolitan set to music, it helps set up the "just friends" relationship she undertakes with Austin; Diana, on the other hand, strikes up a "friends with benefits" liaison with Austin's brother Jeff. It all ends in the modern equivalent of wedding bells, i.e., "committed" relationships, but not before some ups and downs leading to a realization on the part of all four lovers that the romantic ideal must give way to an actual person who must be loved because of, not in spite of perceived imperfections. Cunningham and Salzman pursue this wellworn story with music that recalls both traditional Broadway show music and early 1960s pop styles, as filtered through Billy Joel. Cunningham's lyrics are written in American slang, with words like "laid" (in the sexual sense) and "suck" (in the critical sense) turning up frequently. Maybe it's because his main character writes greeting cards, but he seems to be much better at the funny songs, most of which fall to the secondary characters, than at the big romantic ballads, which tend to go to the leads. That means Stephanie D'Abruzzo, as Diana, and David A. Austin, as Jeff, get more to play than Colin Hanlon, as Austin, and Farah Alvin, as Marcy. All have good voices and work hard to bring the recording off, as they did onstage when I Love You Because ran OffBroadway for three months starting on Valentine's Day, 2006. Written as a thesis project for New York University's graduate musical theatre writing program, the show is a minor, early effort for Cunningham and Salzman that shows promise. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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