Audio CD review:
Paul McKibbins, BT McNicholl, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jessica Boevers - The It Girl (2001 Original Off-Broadway Cast)

Paul McKibbins, BT McNicholl, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jessica Boevers - The It Girl (2001 Original Off-Broadway Cast)

Band: Paul McKibbins, BT McNicholl, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jessica Boevers Title: The It Girl (2001 Original Off-Broadway Cast) Rating: Release Date: 01 October, 2002 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Black and White World 2: Why Not? 3: Stand Straight and Tall 4: It 5: Mama's Arms 6: What to Wear? 7: It Reprise 8: A Perfect Plan 9: Coney Island 10: Act One Finale 11: Entr'acte 12: Woman and Waif 13: Stay with Me / Left Hand Arrangement 14: Step into Their Shoes 15: Out at Sea 16: How Do You Say....? 17: Step into Their Shoes Reprise 18: You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me 19: Act Two Finale

Editoral Review This small show was created in 2001 at the York Theater--located in a church's basement, it's as close as you get to a barn in New York City. If you think that musicals are only outsize, outlandish spectacles hatched on Broadway, The It Girl deftly shows that there are other options. Loosely based on the 1927 Clara Bow vehicle It, the show gleefully runs through all the 1920s classic situations and characters: chases, flappers, mistaken identities, a boat cruise, a department-store heir, and fake French accents—it's all there. You can almost hear the ghost of P. G. Wodehouse, librettist for the Gershwins' Jazz Age classics, cheering. The It Girl breezes through thanks to its cast's game can-do energy and the strength of Paul McKibbins and B. T. McNicholl's perky tunes, which deploy nice melodic resources and make the most of a six-piece band. There's enough knowing pastiche here to keep the saccharine at bay, but the creative team also shows genuine resource and love for musicals as a genre. --Elisabeth Vincentelli .. You can see a complete list of all Paul McKibbins, BT McNicholl, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jessica Boevers discography, or go back to the Paul McKibbins, BT McNicholl, Jean Louisa Kelly, Jessica Boevers tabs