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Way Back to Paradise

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19981201
Author:Christgau, Robert

AUDRA MCDONALD: Way Back to Paradise (Nonesuch) Compared to Streisand, Garland, and Callas, said to augur a New Era of Popular Song, this two-time Tony winner proudly situates her big range and Juilliard technique on the far side of the chasm now separating Broadway theater from American music. Aficionados mav follow the (satiric?) logic of, for instance, the sudden high note that punctuates the Adam Guettel-William Makepeace Thackeray trifle A Tragic Story?." But we who prefer our singing speechlike will figure she's just showing off again, which given the songs is perfectly appropriate. ...

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