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The Lady with the Torch | 
 enlarge | Artist: Patti Lupone
Label: Ghostlight
Category: Music
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 15520
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 83303
UPC: 791558330328
EAN: 0791558330328
ASIN: B000EU1E3I
Release Date: April 25, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | The Man I Love | | • | Guess I ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry | | • | Something Cool | | • | A Cottage For Sale | | • | III Wind | | • | I Wanna Be Around | | • | The Other Woman | | • | Do It Again | | • | Early Autumn | | • | Though I m In Love | | • | So In Love | | • | My Buddy | | • | Body And Soul | | • | Don t Like Goodbyes |
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Amazon.com
Based on her one-woman show conceived and directed by Scott Wittman (lyricist for Hairspray) and orchestrated for ten musicians by longtime Sondheim collaborator Jonathan Tunick, The Lady with the Torch is Patti LuPone simultaneously at the peak of her powers and her most subdued. As its title indicates, the CD sees the singer in full-on ballad mode, tenderly wrapping her burnished pipes around a cherry-picked collection of standards that range from achingly sad to romantically moody. How good is LuPone? She manages to put her stamp on songs as well covered as the Jule Styne /Sammy Cahn tune "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry," which has already been done by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt and Ray Charles. This is a perfect twilight album that will delight both afficionados of the American Songbook and those who just want music to sigh to. Note that LuPone contributes zesty little comments on each track in the booklet (re: "Body and Soul": "This song is from the Great Depression--mine"). --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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| Customer Reviews:
 And I like Patti Lupone! February 1, 2008
Barbara Magalnick (New York City)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've seen Patti Lupone in almost every Broadway show she's been in, from "Evita" through "Gypsy" and "Sweeney Todd" - and particularly enjoyed her in "Anything Goes." One of the comments I made when I saw her one-woman show was that she needed someone to pick her gowns for her. I couldn't understand how someone could select gowns so unsuited for herself.
Well, the same goes for the selection of materials. She is a belter with a voice that easily reaches second balconies in theatres. Vulnerability is not her forte. Everyone has heard the songs in this CD sung many times - and usually better by such voices as Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Judy Garland -- none of them belters. There are so many songs out there that Lupone could have done justice to, and yet she chose the ones least suited to her talents (go figure). When I saw her in "Can-Can" at the Encore series, I was struck by how sexy and powerful she can be when the material and wardrobe are given to her.
If she's into an American songbook, that's a marvelous idea -- when the songs are more carefully chosen for her.
 Patti LuPone "The Lady With The Torch" December 22, 2007
Helen C. Cramer
Pattie LuPone was a reasonably new singer to me until I heard her singing 'I Dreamed a Dream' on an album from the musical Les Miserables. My search found me 'The Lady With The Torch' and I haven't been disappointed. She is an excellent singer who sings great songs with a good key range.
Fantastic Album From A Fantastic Performer November 24, 2006
Lizabet (Cumming, GA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This CD became an immediate staple in my collection. Ms. LuPone's voice glows: she is distinctive, rich, and memorable.
I find Patti's voice and performance compelling in everything she does. Rather than bland, uninspired pop-vocals, her singing is lush and unusual. She brings an edgy, compelling twist to a great selection of standards here, and is full of emotion and expression. As with her "Matters of the Heart" album, she transitions smoothly from power-house belting to soft, sexy and sweet.
This album is great mood music, I've spent this autumn listening to the CD in my car with the windows open to the cool air. It's a release. The whole album is so sheerly emotional, it just glows with passion and feeling. The song choices and orchestrations live up the delivery. All around great versions of the songs.
I would not change a thing on this album, though those new to Patti might want to check out "Matters of the Heart" first, for a more diverse demonstration of her ability. You don't get a feel here for her humor and ability to handle faster songs. She is a ball to listen to having fun, and it is the only thing one misses here. However, some new songs have just been released online (check iTunes) as "Lady With The Torch...Still Burning" and have a more diverse feel to them, so be sure to check those out in tandem with the CD.
I'd also take with a grain of salt any review that needs to mention a "bad experience" with a performer. While my encounter with her was lovely, any personality qualms are as irrelevant to a review of this album as complaining about her haircut or the car she drove to the recording studio. And, frankly, she could kick me in the knee-caps and it probably wouldn't get this album out of my stereo.
(And, for the record, additional cred is lost when someone has violently strong feelings about an album but can't spell the performer's name.)
I am generally just a musical theater fan, and stick to cast recordings for my listening. Patti is one of the only performers I can think of who I crave to hear just for the enjoyment pleasure of her voice, regardless of a show. She's a pleasure, and never a bore. Really. Take a listen.
Absolutely Horrendous! July 26, 2006
Baby Jane Hudson (Coachella Valley)
6 out of 33 found this review helpful
And I was being kind! Ms Lupone is a wonderful stage actress but as a recording personality - FORGET IT! You have no way of getting any emotion out of her singing with how bad her diction is! One reviewer called her singing MUSH MOUTHED and I couldn't agree more. It's just terrible...
Top of my playlist! July 23, 2006
GG50 (NY, NY United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a thrill! I have been waiting for a new Patti CD for quite some time...she sure does deliver!
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