Saturday Night Fever (1998 Original London Cast)

Price 6.63 - 16.43 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 731455793222



Manufacture Country USA

The trend of making stage musicals out of dance movies from the late 1970s and early 1980s continues with Saturday Night Fever, which debuted with this London cast in 1998 and moved to Broadway in the fall of 1999. Like Footloose, SNF has the task of taking a score that was essentially background music and transforming it into songs performed by onstage characters. For example, "How Deep Is Your Love" becomes a romantic duet, and "If I Can"t Have You" becomes Stephanie"s (Tara Wilkinson) vow that she"ll only dance with Tony (Adam Garcia). In addition to most of the familiar songs from the movie soundtrack, the cast recording adds some other Bee Gees hits ("What Kind of Fool", "Tragedy", "Immortality"). It"s all a pleasant listen and a useful souvenir of the show, but those who just want to listen to the music might do just as well to stick with the original soundtrack--unless you"re allergic to falsetto. --David Horiuchi