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Various Artists
The New Normal: A Spiritual Response in Words and Music- Original Cast Recording
Genre: Pop

Track Listings (28) - Disc #1
1. Text: The Koran (Keith Spencer)
2. Something New (Cast)
3. Text: The King James Bible, Psalms; Jiddhu Krishnamurti (Keith Spencer and Richard Biever)
4. Come Down from the Tree (Sally Wilfert)
5. Sabbath Prayer (Peter Flynn, Ann Van Cleave, Cast)
6. Text: Neale Donald Walsch (From the Ashes?) (Richard Biever)
7. Carefully Taught (Cast)
8. Not While I'm Around (Marshall Biever and Anna Rockower)
9. Children Will Listen (Peter Flynn, Heidi Biever, Keith Spencer, Cast)
10. Text: David Halberstam (Vanity Fair) (Richard Biever)
11. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Keith Spencer)
12. Text: David Halberstam (Vanity Fair) (Richard Biever)
13. Somewhere (Ann Van Cleave and Sally Wilfert)
14. in His eyes (Heidi Biever)
15. Text: Archbishop Desmond Tutu (From the Ashes?) (Keith Spencer)
16. Peace Carol (Cast)
17. Text: The Bible, Psalms; The New Testament in Modern English by J.B. Phillips (Keith Spencer and Richard Biever)
18. Morning Glow (Peter Flynn and Cast)
19. Something New (Reprise)/Travel (Sally Wilfert, Keith Spencer, Heidi Biever, Cast)
20. Christmas Lullaby (Sally Wilfert)
21. Father-Mother God (Madeline Biever, Ann Van Cleave, Marshall Biever)
22. No More (Peter Flynn and Keith Spencer)
23. Text: The Christian Science Monitor (Richard Biever and Keith Spencer)
24. No One Is Alone?Ann Van Cleave, Peter Flynn, Ann Van Cleave, Marshall Biever)
25. Text: Adapted from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (Keith Spencer)
26. In A Moment (Keith Spencer)
27. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life/Travel (Reprise) (Heidi Biever and Cast)
28. The Lord?s Prayer (Cast)

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: The New Normal: A Spiritual Response in Words and Music- Original Cast Recording
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Original Release Date: 8/19/2002
Release Date: 8/19/2002
Genre: Pop
Style: Easy Listening
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 783707579122

Synopsis

Album Description

The New Normal is a musical theater production created as an uplifting response to the September 11th tragedies. The work brings together the messages of spiritual thought leaders of many faith traditions from around the world with theater songs and inspirational pieces. It features original material as well as selections from legendary Broadway composers and lyricists such as Stephen Sondheim (Into the Woods), Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin), Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific), and Maltby and Shire (Baby, Starting Here, Starting Now), Jason Robert Brown (Tony-award winner for Parade), Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story), and many others. It appears to be the first of its kind, offering a unique and stirring look at our world today- through the eyes of both children and adults. After rave reviews from the stage production, In A Moment Productions is honored to present this timely and much-anticipated original cast recording. This album features 28 beautifully woven tracks of both text and music that best convey the inspirational impact of the live stage production.

CD Reviews

Healing message with broad appeal

02/09/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I simply cannot think of any other offering in the area of musical theater that has contributed as much to the dialogue regarding September 11 and our world today. This work provides answers to the question, Where do we go from here? More to the point, it answers the heart-rending question, Can we as individuals, as families, as communities, as a society, with all the dangers of today, get to a new, safe place? The New Normal says, Yes, resoundingly and beautifully. It tells us that we can come together to triumph over evil, one heart at a time, and it shows us the way through a brilliant combination of insightful texts and beautiful and upbeat music. In my twenty-five-plus years in and around the musical theater I have not found a work that makes such a healing message so accessible to such a broad audience."