Track Listing

1. Overture
2. Bounce
3. Opportunity
4. Gold!
5. Gold! (Part 2)
6. What's Your Rush
7. The Game
8. Next To You
9. Addison's Trip
10. The Best Thing That Ever Happened
11. I Love This Town
12. Isn't He Something!
13. Bounce
14. The Game
15. Talent
16. You
17. Addison's City
18. Boca Raton Aftermath
19. Get Out Of My Life
20. Bounce

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120247 in Music
• Released on: 2004-05-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Dimensions: .45 pounds

Amazon.com
Bounce is a pretty accurate title for this Sondheim show, which receives a cast album after having been seemingly everywhere but Broadway. In a way this is fitting for a musical that's been on Sondheim's mind since 1952, when he first read about the adventures of the two Mizner brothers in The New Yorker. Based on this Fall 2003 Kennedy Center production, figuring out why Bounce doesn't quite click is tricky. Is it the heard-it-before quality of the material? The title track is disappointingly by-the-numbers Sondheim, for instance. Or is it the uneven cast? Howard McGillin lacks the outsize personality needed to infuse life into scheming Wilson Mizner (a part played by Nathan Lane in a 1999 Off-Broadway "workshop" of the show, then titled Wise Guys). But then Michelle Pawk does wonderfully in the sultry ballad "What's Your Rush?" before eclipsing McGillin in their duet, "The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened." Got it! Bounce may not work as a show, but a few of its songs are bound to show up in a cabaret near you sooner rather than later. --Elisabeth Vincentelli