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Ellen Mandel : Every Play's an Opera
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Dramatic, comedic, and swinging theater music for plays from Shakespeare to Stoppard, some vocal, some instrumental, some jazzy, some classical, and a blues that gives you all of Waiting for Godot in three minutes.
Genre: Classical: Musical Theater
Release Date: 2000
Every Play's an Opera
Ellen Mandel
Record Label: Brite Records
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Overture to Travesties by Tom Stoppard 4:54 Album Only
2. Overture to Candida by G.B. Shaw 1:12 Album Only
3. Overture to The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney 0:28 Album Only
4. The Bow Ceremony from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney 3:01 Album Only
5. Sleep lyrics by Seamus Heaney 2:01 Album Only
6. Human Beings Suffer lyrics by Seamus Heaney 2:45 Album Only
7. Hercules from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney 2:26 Album Only
8. Ending to The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney 1:39 Album Only
9. This Could Be the One lyrics by Tom Stoppard 1:30 Album Only
10. Sandor\'s Stomp from Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard 2:44 Album Only
11. Who Said it Would Be Easy lyrics by Tom Stoppard 2:12 Album Only
12. Where Do We Go From Here lyrics by Tom Stoppard 1:31 Album Only
13. Overture to The Keepers by Barbara Lebow 1:21 Album Only
14. Lullabye from The Keepers by Barbara Lebow 1:11 Album Only
15. Lulu Suite Part 1 for the play by Frank Wedekind 2:35 Album Only
16. Lulu Suite Part 2 for the play by Frank Wedekind 1:29 Album Only
17. Lulu Suite Part 3 for the play by Frank Wedekind 1:48 Album Only
18. Lulu Suite Part 4 for the play by Frank Wedekind 2:05 Album Only
19. Lulu Suite Part 5 for the play by Frank Wedekind 2:08 Album Only
20. Shepherdess\' Lament from Moliere\'s Imaginary Invalid 2:13 Album Only
21. The Time For Love Is Now from Moliere\'s Imaginary Invalid 3:31 Album Only
22. Cap\'n Cat\'s Dream from Dylan Thomas\'s Under Milkwood 4:27 Album Only
23. Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail lyrics by Dylan Thomas 0:48 Album Only
24. Mr. Waldo\'s Song lyrics by Dylan Thomas 2:06 Album Only
25. Lady Britomart from Major Barbara by GB Shaw 3:47 Album Only
26. Overture to Nathan The Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1:41 Album Only
27. Hecate\'s Song lyrics by Shakespeare from Macbeth 4:01 Album Only
28. Elegy for a Dead Son from Macbeth by Shakespeare 2:31 Album Only
29. Dogberry\'s Theme from Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare 1:04 Album Only
30. Song of Lampedusa from Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare 1:16 Album Only
31. Lucky\'s Dance from Samuel Beckett\'s Waiting for Godot 1:25 Album Only
32. Godot\'s Blues the tale of Samuel Beckett\'s Waiting for Godot 3:36 Album Only
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Album Notes

“As always, a major asset to the Cocteau production is Ellen Mandel’s original music.” New York Times, Wilborn Hampton

“The talented cast’s renditions of Stoppard’s songs, with original music by Ellen Mandel, are highlights.” The New Yorker

“Freshly inventive and emotionally on-target composer, Ellen Mandel”
Village Voice, Leighton Kerner

Every Play's an Opera: Drama by Music ELLEN MANDEL'S CD IS A TREASURE...

One does not usually get a chance to listen to the Sound (or, in this case, Music) "per se" in a play--certainly not while watching it. When the music is worth listening to in one's home instead of necessarily in the theatre, as Ellen Mandel's is, a CD is a treasure.

What I like best are the various cadences and the very skillful performances that seem to come easily. Take, for example, the sound for "Rough Crossing." It has all the contradictions in Stoppard's characters and the slyness of his satire and parody.


“This composer’s music for the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater has been remarkable for consistent invention, compositional resource, and apt theatricality.” Village Voice, Leighton Kerner

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