Let Yourself Go

Performer: Kristin Chenoweth
Artist: Jason Alexander; Rob Fisher
Engineer: Ed Rak; Jeffrey Lesser...
Producer: Jeffrey Lesser...
Distributor: Naxos (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel includes: Kristin Chenoweth, Jason Alexander (vocals); Jay Berliner (guitar); Andy Stein, Suzanne Ornstein, Belinda Whitney-Barratt (violin); Jill Jaffee (viola); Clay Ruede (cello); Red Press, Albert Regni (clarinet); Lawrence Feldman (bass clarinet); Jack Gale (trombone); Rob Fisher, Lee Musiker (piano); John Beal (bass); Arnold Kinsella (drums). Recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, New York in June 2000. Personnel: Kristin Chenoweth (vocals); Jason Alexander (vocals); Jay Berliner (guitar); Belinda Whitney-Barratt, Andy Stein, Suzanne Ornstein (violin); Jill Jaffe (viola); Clay Ruede (cello); Albert Regni, Seymour Red Press (clarinet); Lawrence Feldman (bass clarinet); Jack Gale (trombone); Lee Musiker (piano); Arnold Kinsella, Jr. (drums). Audio Mixer: Jeffrey Lesser . Recording information: Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY (06/2000); Extasy Studio, Los Angeles, CA (06/2000); RPM Studio, New York, NY (06/2000). Photographer: Kwaku Alston. Kristin Chenoweth capped a rising career in musical theater with her debut solo album, which found her showing off her well-trained soprano in a collection of show tunes, most of which dated to the interwar period. On Irving Berlin's "Let Yourself Go," she tap danced like Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet, and she worked up a torrent of comic anger in Jule Styne's "If You Hadn't But You Did." Then, she switched gears, proving herself a potently romantic figure in the Gershwins' "How Long Has This Been Going On?" and Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine." And so it went. Backed by the Coffee Club Orchestra, the resident backup band for City Center's Encores! series of concert versions of lost musicals, with whom she had worked on Strike Up the Band and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, she recreated one of the Strike Up the Band numbers, the lesser-known Gershwin treat "Hangin' Around With You," abetted by another musical theater veteran who had branched out into TV, Jason Alexander. Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan's previously unheard "The Girl in 14G" allowed her to show off her opera training as well as her scatting abilities, and she fearlessly (and successfully) took on the ghost of Mary Martin by covering "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" from One Touch of Venus. Like an elaborate audition tape, the album seemed designed to suggest that Chenoweth could play any sort of part; sometimes the songs themselves reflected this goal of displaying versatility, notably the obscure Vincent Youmans song "Should I Be Sweet?," in which the singer must bounce back and forth between "sweet" and "hot" personas as she tries to choose between them. But whatever role she undertook, Chenoweth revealed more than enough talent to excel on a dazzling first album. ~ William Ruhlmann

Best known for her role as Glinda in the acclaimed Broadway musical WICKED, singer/actress Kristin Chenoweth has also recorded a number of solo albums, including the entertaining 2001 standards collection, LET YOURSELF GO. Chenoweth's tiny frame and girl-next-door persona belie her powerful and dynamic voice, as any of her work on the Great White Way reveals. Chenoweth has appeared in numerous movies (BEWITCHED) and TV shows (PUSHING DAISIES), and also moonlights on the "Elmo's World" segment of SESAME STREET as the Chaplinesque Ms. Noodle.

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