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| Adrift in Macao | 
 enlarge | Creators: Peter Melnick, Fred Lassen, The Adrift In Macao Pit Orchestra, Alan Campbell, Elisa Van Duyne, Jonathan Rayson, Michele Ragusa, Orville Mendoza, Rachel De Benedet, Will Swenson
Label: Lml Music
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $10.75
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 26779
Format: Cast Recording, Explicit Lyrics, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 228
UPC: 711788028246
EAN: 0711788028246
ASIN: B0017LGOY2
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Prologue | | • | In A Foreign City | | • | Grumpy Mood | | • | Tempura's Song | | • | Mister McGuffin | | • | Pretty Moon Over Macao | | • | Mambo Malaysian | | • | Sparks | | • | Adrift In Macao | | • | So Long | | • | Rick's Song | | • | The Chase | | • | I'm Actually Irish | | • | Ticky Ticky Tock |
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Album Description
A zany film noir parody hearkening back to the days when leading men were hard-boiled, dames were beautiful but dangerous, and musicals were filled with tunes so playfully catchy you couldn't dislodge them from your brain if your life depended on it. Book and lyrics by one of America's funniest playwrights, Christopher Durang (in a very, very good mood). An original and lethally catchy score signals the arrival of gifted new musical theater composer Peter Melnick. "The Maltese falcon mates with the loon in Adrift In Macao ... Christopher Durang's broad spoof of film noir, with a score by Peter Melnick that mambos from Kurt Weill to Carmen Miranda, is set in 1952 in the Chinese port of Macao--a sinister locale peopled by diamond smugglers, shady nightclub owners, dope aficionados, femmes fatales, and a walking, winking Asian cliche named Tempura, because he's been `battered by life.'" -- Boston Phoenix "With a drop-dead funny book and shamefully silly lyrics by Christopher Durang and lethally catchy music by Peter Melnick, Adrift In Macao lovingly parodies the Hollywood film noir classics of the 1940s and '50s." -- BroadwayWorld.com "[The] music hops effectively among genres, evoking period music from Kurt Weill to big bands." -- New York Times
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| Customer Reviews:
 Ho Hum June 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A pleasant enough diversion. I was disappointed though since I was hoping for another "Song of Singapore".
 Adrift in Macao July 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The music is fun and the sound is nastalgic. I hope I get to see the show.
off the mainland September 10, 2008
i was delightfully shanghied to Macao and set adrift amongst a crazy cast of old and new characters belting broadway melodies across the sea. an only english speaking chanteuse serenading a nightclub of only chinese speaking patrons with a song, in english, that she does not know the words for is an idea made in musical comedy heaven. so goes a joyful romp as the self-exiles attempt to hide their pasts in a pastiche of song types and character revelations. i have only heard the score but it is so good that i cannot wait to see an actual production of this show. very fun, very singable, you'll be humming
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