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june 3.2005 Just out 55 MUSIC ..........▼............ Off Broadway Double Standards have a deep, dark secret that will set Laura free. But hen you think of Lea Delaria, the foul- after an excruciat Delaria delights, Disney (and Lloyd Webber) bites mouthed lesbian comedian, you probably ingly long first act, don’t think subtle chanteuse. Yet her lat who cares? est album, Double Standards, conjures up images Lloyd Webber’s of smoky nightclubs filled with hipster patrons music here is like and sultry sirens. It remains to be seen whether the W oman I On the Record second-rate Victor On Delaria’s previous album, Play It Cool, slight premise is erfbugh to build an entire Herbert. There are Various Artists • Disney Wi ll I F she reinterpreted Broadway tare with a jazz evening around. As for the recording, if few of the lush, flair. Now she turns her sights to pop and rock, isney is a company that’s as well known tor you find rhe animatrons of “It’s a Small romantic melodies infecting songs by Patti Smith, the Pretenders marketing savvy as it is for creative ingenu World” adorable, then you’ll probably enjoy that we expect from the composer of The Phan' and even Jane’s Addiction with a silky sound ity. Its latest theatrical venture, ()n the On the Record. But if you’re like me and find tom of the Opera, and the words by gay lyricist that is reminiscent of Peggy Lee. Record, hasn’t come to Portland yet and, with Disney Cute cloying, then this mishmash of I David Zippel (The Goodbye Girl, City of Angels) With Delaria, Blondie’s “Call Me” becomes luck, won’t. slickly packaged and sickly sweet sounds will range from trite to downright bad (“Nothing’s a slinky ’60s ballad (think Eartha Kitt) and No A smorgasbord of send you flying for the pause button. On „ duller/than my watercolor...ing” lands with a Doubt’s “Just a Girl” becomes a peppy, upbeat | more than 60 tunes, the other hand, now 1 don’t have to shop thud). swing number that would have been perfect for On the Record takes tor my 4-year-old goddaughter’s next In the title role, Angela Christian sounds a Ella Fitzgerald (Delaria is a terrific scat singer). place in a recording birthday present. lot like Bernadette Peters but has the same Best of all is her tender rendition of Neil studio where a group annoying habit of gasping between phrases as Young’s haunting “Philadelphia” from the semi of performers and Idina Menzel (Wicked). It appears that a whole nal Tom Hanks film. musicians come generation of young musical theater wannabes is The Woman in White Delaria is accompanied by a first-rate together to record beginning to imitate Menzel’s wheezing vocal Andrew Lloyd Webber • EMI ensemble including pianist Gil Goldstein (who songs from 7 5 years technique, and the art form is not well served by also arranged 10 of the 11 songs) and bassist of Disney films ndrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman m it. The usually wonderful Michael Crawford (the Christian McBride, executive director of the beginning with White is a pedestrian piece*of over original Phantom) is wasted in a ridiculous sec Jazz Museum in Mickey Mouse’s wrought drivel that spends more time ondary role. What a sad state the theater must be Harlem and a earliest black- paying homage to the composer than in when even Crawford can’t get a decent part in protégé of leg and-white animated shorts from the 1920s. expressing any new musical ideas, thoughts or an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. endary jazzman Selections are also included from live- emotions. Perhaps the production itself will overcome Wynton action films, television shows, park attrac The Woman in White is “freely adapted” the shortcomings of the score and lyrics. (It from Wifk le Collins’ Victorian novel of the Marsalis. tions and stage productions. certainly worked for other Lloyd Webber fias- With Double The songs are chirped by eight capable same name. I haven’t read it, and after listen coes like Cats and Starlight Express.) But as a Standards, Delar but bland voices, the kind you nonnally ing to the newly released discs (which were stand-alone recording, with its tinny, synthe ia has clearly encounter on a cruise ship or at a Disney recorded live on opening night in London), sized sound, there is little reason to listen to expanded her theme park. (Imagine a grown-up version of I have no desire to. The slim plot concerns this clunker. jm appeal beyond the Mickey Mouse Club where the principals Laura, who has been married off to Sir Percival the Broadway sing with the soulless conviction of Miss Clyde, an abusive cad only interested in her Within Portland free-lance writer FLOYD SKLAVER is crowd. America contestants.) fortune. Enter a ghostlike figure claiming to a Broadway Baby just bursting to belt out. Lea Delana • Telarc W D Peacock Productions, Inc. Proudly Presents... M The loth Annua Hosted by sihow Maria and Poison Waters Saturday Night Wednewla). 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