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Passing Strange | 
 enlarge | Creators: Heidi Rodewald, Heidi Stew / Rodewald, Christian Cassan, Christian Gibbs, Jon Spurney, Chad Goodridge, Colman Domingo, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Rebecca Naomi Jones, De'adre Aziza
Label: Ghostlight
Category: Music
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1869
Format: Cast Recording, Explicit Lyrics, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 84429
UPC: 791558442922
EAN: 0791558442922
ASIN: B00199PPRE
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Prologue (We Might Play All Night) | | • | Baptists Fashion Show | | • | Medley: Church Blues Revelation/Freight Train | | • | Arlington Hill | | • | Sole Brother | | • | Must Have Been High | | • | Mom Song | | • | Merci Beaucoup, M. Goddard | | • | Amsterdam | | • | Keys (Marianna) | | • | Keys (It's Alright) | | • | We Just Had Sex | | • | Stoned | | • | Berlin: A Black Hole With Taxis | | • | May Day (There's A Riot Goin' Down) | | • | Medley: What's Inside Is Just A Lie/And Now I'm Ready To Explode | | • | Identity | | • | The Black One | | • | Come Down Now | | • | Youth's Unfinished Song | | • | Work the Wound | | • | Passing Phase | | • | Cue Music | | • | Love Like That |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 A "STEW To Savor August 31, 2008
While Rodgers and Hammerstein and Andrew Loyd Webber are booming on Broadway, some interesting new voices are being heard and Stew is among the best. The style is contemporary and should be heard by everyone, but unfortunately the show had to clsoe because business is business and not enough people showed up to support it. Their loss, but you can get a feel for this exuberant score from the excellent cast recording.
Really Good! August 27, 2008
I really enjoyed this show, and the CD captures it unusually well. I think it was a great choice the producers made in taping it live, as it captures the heart of the music.
whoa!!!! August 23, 2008
This is an excellent cd.However the show was unreal!I can not wait for the dvd!
I'm biased--but it rocked hard! August 17, 2008
I was lucky enough to go to a show of Passing Strange--and be present at the recording of this CD. The music itself is a fantastic blend of genres--Stew and Heidi Rodewald evoke everybody from Kurt Weill to the Sex Pistols--and the story, the portrait of the African American artist finding himself in 1980s Europe--resonates for all of us. We all have to leave someone, some identity behind to grow up, and the result is often complicated and messy. The performers are both terrific singers and great storytellers. Don't miss this show if it comes to your town; in the meantime, remember, "Miracles are commonplace when you're on holy ground."
A modern day Pippin... The REAL Deal August 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In 1972, Broadway presented a young prince who yearned desperately to find something "completely fulfilling" in life. That prince was Pippin, son of Charles the Great. He sought for meaning and fulfillment in higher learning, war, sex, politics, religion, art, love and other things. Though set in the Roman Empire in the 9th century, Pippin's quest for purpose was representative of Everyman. Now in 2007, that quest is refreshingly and satisfactorily undertaken by the "Youth" in the phenomenal new musical, Passing Strange.
Passing Strange is subtitled "The Stew Musical" because it presents a semiautobiographical sketch of Stew; the writer of the book and lyrics, co-writer of the music, and the narrator in this recording. Stew's journey, though particularly his own (a California man's search for himself through Amsterdam and Berlin), is also universal. The main character, Youth, is searching for something real, or more poignantly, THE REAL. Not unlike Pippin, his search leads to experimentation with church, drugs, sex, philosophy/rebellion, music, etc. Throughout his journey, every new interest ends up a passing phase. No matter how exciting at first, each ends in ennui. In his words, "She's serving every one of my desires on a platter, but it doesn't even matter anymore... Paradise is a bore." His mother's experience is the same, "Having a big ol' house should make a woman sing... But then you gotta live in it and that's a whole `nother thing." The youth's path leads him in a roundabout from epiphany and fervor to emptiness and confusion.
What's this life for? Perhaps the answer to this universal question is uniquely personal. I am reminded of another musical, the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "Once More with Feeling" (season six). Buffy finds herself struggling with life, yearning for something worth singing about. Spike's response, "Life's not a song, life isn't bliss. Life is just this: it's living." Stew sums it up this way: "The Real is a construct... It's the raw nerve's private zone... It's a personal sunset... You drive off into alone." As Pippin's narrator might have said, "Ta-da". Meaning, fulfillment, purpose... they are uniquely our own. So we live.
Beyond the meaning, the story is conveyed with wit, humor, and sincerity. Additionally, this production rocks! Stew, Heidi, and the band have nailed each number taking us authentically from a Holy Ghost Church service to angry punk to a German art-house and beyond. The band and actors all do a fantastic job - beautiful voices, cute accents, believable and touching portrayals. It is even more amazing when considered that this recording is a live performance. Passing Strange succeeds brilliantly both musically and narratively.
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