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A Man of No Importance (2002 Off-Broadway Cast) | 
 enlarge | Artists: Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, Roger Rees, Faith Prince, Jessica Molaskey
Label: Jay Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 81538
Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.6 x 0.5
UPC: 605288136924
EAN: 6052881369244
ASIN: B00008VGN4
Release Date: April 15, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | A Man of No Importance - Alfie and Company | | • | The Burden of Life - Lily and Alfie | | • | Going Up - Carney and the St. Imelda's Players | | • | Princess - Adele and Alfie | | • | The Streets of Dublin - Robbie and Company | | • | Books - Carney and Lily | | • | Man in the Mirror - Alfie and Oscar Wilde | | • | Love Who You Love - Alfie | | • | Our Father - Mrs. Patrick and Company | | • | Confession - Alfie, Robbie and Father Kenny | | • | The Cuddles Mary Gave - Baldy | | • | Art - Alfie and the St. Imelda's Players | | • | A Man of No Importance (Reprise) - Mrs. Patrick, Breton Beret, Sully O'Hara; Confusing Times - Carney and Alfie | | • | Love Who You Love (Robbie's Reprise) - Robbie and Alfie | | • | Man in the Mirror (Reprise) - Oscar Wilde, Alfie and Company | | • | Tell Me Why - Lily | | • | Love Who You Love (Adele's Reprise) - Adele and Alfie | | • | Welcome to the World - Alfie | | • | Poem - Alfie, Robbie and Company | | • | Love's Never Lost (bonus track) - Sean McCourt and Antoine Silverman |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beautiful Score, Fantastic Performances December 17, 2008
Danielle E. Johnson (United States)
I absolutely love this musical... I consider myself a little bit of a music snob, I'm really picky about the quality of music that I listen to, and I absolutely give this show 5 stars! The score is beautiful and heartfelt, and performances by all involved are so genuine and wonderful that it makes you want to listen to it over and over again. I have had "Streets of Dublin" on loop in my mp3 player for days! Plus, the Irish touch to all of the music gives it a fantastic, charming feel :)
A Man of No Importance August 26, 2008
Stephen J. Lillis
Excellent recording, excellent music. i was surprised since I had not heard it before. Very enjoyable.
 A man of no importance song book. April 5, 2008
jay brazeau (vancouver BC)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE was listed as a book so I was quite surprised when it showed up as a songbook. There were other songbooks listed which is why I chose this one as I was interested in buying the script. So I was unhappy about that. I enjoy the music and I imagine if I read music this would have been a perfect choice for me. So buyer beware.
Moving September 24, 2006
R. Klein (Rocketville, Maryland - USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I first heard about this musical when a friend told me she was auditioning for a production. Her brief synopsis was enough to get me interested, and I got the CD. The musical is based on the 1995 film of the same title, not on a novel. After listening, I was intrigued enough to purchase the movie.
It's the story of a bus conductor in Dublin, Ireland. A quiet man who's job is to collect the fares of bus riders. But he plays a role in the lives of his riders, reciting poetry and verse during the ride, engaging his passengers and making their trip something more than just a ride.
The opening number is a wonderful and poetic description of the seemingly mundane act of riding the bus to work in the morning being transformed from drudgery to a lively part of the daily round.
Many of his riders participate in his amateur theatre productions at a local church hall. His spinster sister has put her life on hold until her brother meets and marries a wife.
The conductor, Alfie, is a homosexual, who retreats from his own life into one of fantasy built around the poetry and prose of his inspiration, Oscar Wilde. His emotional outlets are narrowed to books and cooking, and his creativity is directed to his plays.
As his life rumbles forward on the bus, the pain of living this way becomes clear. The pressures of self denial press in on him. He longs to live a real life, and to feel the pleasures of love with another human being.
He longs, secretly, of the driver of his bus, but is caught in a net of Catholic guilt and social pressures, so shuns involvement in the outside world, preferring the safety and security of the secret world inside his own head.
Until, that is, the need for human interaction - both physical and emotional - drive him to a desperate point.
Beaten and humiliated by his only attempt to be himself, he finds that he is a man of importance to those around him. That being Oscar Wilde isn't who he needs to be, but instead, the man he is, Alfie Byrne.
The musical seems to flesh out some of the characters better than the movie, and improve on some of the vagaries of the film. The motivations of his sister, Lil, are more understandable because her relationship with Carney, the butcher is more clear, for example.
On first hearing, I found the story moving, but a little confusing - mostly keeping the characters in order. After reading the liner notes I had a much better feel for the action and interrelationships, and enjoyed it even more. The music captures the character and emotions of the story quite well.
The score uses Irish influences extremely well, and eschews the current style of rock rhythms and American Idol style vocal acrobatics, resulting in a good, solid and serious musical.
It's a sensitive story, well told by well written and evocative music.
A Show Of GREAT Importance February 16, 2006
Gucci Luvr
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is another review that I did when I didn't have an account so i'm re-issuing it so that yall know it's me.
Let me first say that if you don't like Irish music, you probably won't like this show.
A Man of No Importance is the perfect example of how off-broadway can have amazing shows too. It is the story of a kind hearted ticket taker, Alfie Burnes who loves oscar wilde and poetry. Enter Robbie Fay, driver of the bus, this is the one on whom Alfie has a crush.
Alfie lives with his sister Lil and heads the comunity theater group, The St. Amelda's players. For their next production Alfie wants to put on "Salome"
I won't give away the whole show but that is the general gist nix the twists and turns taken during the play.
The talent on the cast album is extremly gifted and sing the songs with such believability that you think you might really be in the streets of Dublin, Ireland while you're listining.
Standouts include:
A Man of No Importance
The Burden of Life
Going Up
Princess
The Streets of Dublin
Books
Our Father
Confessions
Art
All in all this album is a good and enjoyable buy.
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