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Sherry (2004 Studio Cast) | 
 enlarge | Artists: Laurence Rosenthal, James Lipton, Nathan Lane, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, Mike Myers
Label: Angel Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 21274
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 33757
UPC: 724353375706
EAN: 0724353375706
ASIN: B0001CCWV2
Release Date: February 24, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Act 1. The Overture | | • | Act 1. Why Does The Whole Damn World Adore Me | | • | Act 1. Whiteside's Prayer | | • | In the Very next Moment | | • | Act 1. Crockfield | | • | Act 1. Maybe It's Time For Me | | • | Act 1. How Can You Kiss Those Times Goodbye | | • | Act 1. With This Ring | | • | Act 1. Sherry | | • | Act 1. Alas, Lorraine / Au Revoir | | • | Act 1. The Proposal Duet / Listen, Cosette | | • | Act 1. I Always Stay At The Ritz | | • | Act 1. Christmas Eve |
Disc 2
| • | Act 2. Putty In Your Hands | | • | Act 2. Imagine That | | • | Act 2. The Preen Beguine | | • | Act 2. Marry The Girl Myself | | • | Act 2. Putty In your Hands (Reprise) | | • | Act 2. Harriet Sedley | | • | Au Revoir (Reprise) - Lipton, James | | • | Whiteside's Prayer (Reprise)/Finale - Lipton, James | | • | Bows - Lipton, James | | • | Act 2. Au Revoir (Reprise) | | • | Act 2. Whiteside's Prayer (Reprise) & Finale | | • | Act 2. Bows |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 One of my favorite musicals now March 3, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a fun CD set. The music is lush. The performances by Bernadette Peters, Carol Burnett, Nathan Lane and rest of the cast are simply great. The personalities of the characters really come through. In the production numbers, you can almost see the dancers. Goodness, Carol Burnett -- always one of my favorites -- here at 70 sounds wonderful.
I have to state my bias, though, I'm performing the role of Sheridan Whiteside in a community theater production of the play. So people less familiar with the play may not appreciate this CD as much. It has grown on me, so maybe it takes a few listens. The 2000 movie of "The Man who Came to Dinner" with Nathan Lane would be good background (as well as a lot of fun in its own right).
Put this show on the stage! January 30, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great piece of work - would love to see this staged sometime. Some of the talent is predictable but this is a great idea.
 So Many Missed Opportunities December 10, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As Ken Mandelbaum pointed out, "The Man Who Came To Dinner" is perfect as is, and isn't improved by musicalization. That said, I think it could have still been done much better. The two ladies (Lorraine Sheldon and Magie Cutler) get the best songs - the ballads for Maggie and the show tunes "Sherry" and "Putty In Your Hands" for Lorraine (although both songs rely upon the same "re-mi" hook in what seems to be plain lazy composition, rather than thematic continuity). Whiteside never gets a really great number, and the show is called "Sherry," isn't it? Shouldn't he have an 11:00 number? Shouldn't his establishing number be funnier? Why does the Noel Coward character have two (bland) songs and the Harpo Marx character none? Why does the nurse, Miss Preen, never sing?
Although the score is never truly bad, it seems as though opportunities to write great songs (rather than acceptable ones) were missed. And please, Lipton, please get over your obsession with internal rhymes. Your overuse of them is like putting an entire box of salt in a stew.
 "I love me, you love me, let's all serve my vanity..." July 23, 2004
16 out of 26 found this review helpful
As reviewers search for reasons why this just isn't a terribly good disc, I submit that you can't gild a turd. And that the only reason this near-forgotten score has been revived is because it's a ***JAMES LIPTON VANITY PROJECT***. Lipton, best (and only) known for his execrable TV show (oh, wait! no, there were also those sterling Bob Hope Birthday Specials...), is, politely put, an undertalented lyricist and playwright. That his emetic program has afforded him enough (hopefully-brief) celebrity to coerce talented performers (all but one--Tommy Tune--have been dais guests of the oleaginous Lipton) to waste their time in the service of his ego is just another reason to regret ITAS' popularity.
B'way completists rejoice if you will, but please also admit that there are many shows much more deserving of fresh recordings with marquee casts than this hacked-out pastiche of other creators' immeasurably-better work.
Too bad they found the trunk! June 14, 2004
15 out of 24 found this review helpful
At the risk of sounding totally mean, I have to say that there are some bright spots in this rather over-the-top and inflated score. No wonder it closed and was never recorded until now. It's just not as good as the publicity for the recording would lead you to believe. There's nothing original here, it's Broadway formula down to the first note of the overture to the end.
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