Frankenstein | 
| Creators: Hugh Mason, Mark Baron, Stephen Purdy, Gary Weiss, Keith Crupi, Allen Cohen, Chris Rinaman, Marty Bound, Gregor Huebner, Aaron Serotsky, Becky Barta, Casey Erin Clark, Christiane Noll, Hunter Foster, Jim Stanek, Leslie Henstock, Mandy Bruno, Nick Cartell
Label: Ghostlight
Category: Music
List Price: $18.97
Buy New: $12.66
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 12670
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 88001
UPC: 791558800128
EAN: 0791558800128
ASIN: B001EOQV5O
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Act 1. Prelude | | • | Act 1. A Golden Age | | • | Act 1. Find Your Way Home / A Golden Age (Part 2) | | • | Act 1. Amen | | • | Act 1. Birth To My Creation | | • | Act 1. 1:15 A.M. | | • | Act 1. Dear Victor / Burn The Laboratory | | • | Act 1. The Hands of Time | | • | Act 1. Your Father's Eyes | | • | Act 1. The Creature's Tale (Part 1) | | • | Act 1. The Waking Nightmare | | • | Act 1. The Creature's Tale (Part 2) | | • | Act 1. The Music of Love | | • | Act 1. The Creature's Tale (Part 3) | | • | Act 1. Why? | | • | Act 1. The Proposition | | • | Act 2. A Happier Day | | • | Act 2. The Modern Prometheus | | • | Act 2. Another Like Him | | • | Act 2. The Workings of The Heart | | • | Act 2. An Angel's Embrace | | • | Act 2. The Workings of The Heart (Reprise) | | • | Act 2. These Hands | | • | Act 2. The Chase | | • | Act 2. Coming of The Dawn | | • | Act 2. Amen |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Masterpice of Musical Theater September 6, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's all here. I have waited too long to get this music. Since seeing the show I was intrigued and captivated by the music and I am so happy the music is finally available! Outstanding musical performances by the entire cast, and yes, this music can be enjoyed even if you did not see the show, but have the slightest inking of the story.
Hunter Foster is amazing in this masterpiece of Musical Theater.
 Great performers with not so great material September 5, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I saw this show last fall during the stagehands' strike on Broadway. I so wanted to like this show. It seemed like a poor Off-Broadway underdog playing at the same time the big Broadway show Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein premiered. I'd been attracted by the amazing credentials and voices of the performers involved. This show is in what I'd call the Les Miz-style. Mostly sung, with the story hurtling forward with hardly a chance for a breath. And everything is so very, very earnest. You're made to feel a little guilty for just wanting a good, suspenseful, eerie monster story. Maybe with a little tragic romance. Instead it takes itself so very serious with its important issues of God and man and creation and, well, I just couldn't care because ultimately I didn't really care about any of the characters moving around an extremely uninteresting set with it's PowerPoint projections that told us where we were in what year. And it often seemed that everything truly dramatic and suspenseful happened off stage or behind a scrim.
Oh. And the music. The music didn't make me care too much about the characters either. Every "song" seemed more or less like the one preceding it. Except they didn't really seem so much like songs -- you could never really feel the shape of any tunes to grab onto, or that allowed any of the performers to shape into something enjoyable. I was so thankful when Hunter Foster finally got to sing "The Coming of the Dawn" almost at the very end. It was really the first time I felt he was able to just sing something that felt like a song and not just directionless declamatory drama. Amazingly, it seemed to be a real song. A nice power ballad that had a melody that stuck with me. It was the only thing that made a favorable impression on me. Well, I did buy a nice t-shirt in the lobby. I liked it. Still have it. It fits me well.
Check Frankenstein out for yourself though. If you enjoyed Les Miserables and some of the other attempts a bringing these old or gothic tales to musical theater (Jane Eyre, Lestat, Jekyll & Hyde and Phantom of the Opera come to mind) then you might find something to like in this.
Beautiful work of musical theatre September 2, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had the pleasure of seeing this show Off-Broadway at 37Arts. I knew some of the score from the Workshop production (the cast recording of which is hard to come by these days) prior to seeing the show, but didn't know what to expect with this production. Little did I know that I would fall head-over-heels for the cast, the music, and the design of this show.
Of course, this new recording (featuring the entire cast from 37Arts minus Eric Michael Gillett - who is replaced by the splendid Richard White) doesn't SHOW anyone the design or staging of the show...but it manages to capture 74 minutes of the 95 minute show perfectly!
The cast includes Hunter Foster (URINETOWN, THE PRODUCERS), Steve Blanchard (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST), and Christiane Noll (JEKYLL & HYDE). I won't go into detail about these wonderful performers, but I will say that each gives a truly unique and powerful performance. Foster's "Birth to My Creation" and "The Coming of the Dawn" are more than worth the price of the CD (or download). Blanchard's savage "The Waking Nightmare" and haunting "These Hands" show a tortured Creature worthy of pity. Noll's beautiful voice and presence deserve a standing ovation, especially on "Dear Victor" and "The Workings of the Heart." Also a standout is Jim Stanek (LESTAT), particularly in "The Modern Prometheus."
The orchestrations are not the "biggest," but that lends to the show's intimacy. The recording is perfectly engineered and produced.
If anyone were to make the perfect cast recording of a fantastic musical, this would be it!
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