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Michael Ball, Centre Stage
Audio CD
Disk ID: 696445
Disk length: 57m 9s (14 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2001
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Every Story | 2:49 |
| 2. Can you feel the love tonight | 4:05 |
| 3. The boy from nowhere | 4:24 |
| 4. Lift the wings | 3:42 |
| 5. Not while I'm around | 4:00 |
| 6. The Phantom of the opera | 4:23 |
| 7. Music of the Night | 5:22 |
| 8. The winner takes it all | 4:59 |
| 9. Seasons of Love | 4:05 |
| 10. Bring him Home | 3:14 |
| 11. Tell me on a Sunday | 3:36 |
| 12. Immortality | 4:10 |
| 13. Send in the Clowns | 4:19 |
| 14. Tell me it's not True | 3:52 |
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Review
"Can you feel the lo-o-o-o-ve tonight?" Michael Ball asks in the song of the same name. One thing's for sure: We can definitely feel the full impact of his vibrato. And maybe that's what makes him one of Britain's most popular musical-theater singers. Packed with ballads, Centre Stage features songs pulled mostly from contemporary blockbusters such as Aida, Les Miserables, Blood Brothers, and Riverdance. Ball isn't the best Sondheim interpreter, but his relatively low-key take on ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All" is surprisingly effective. Like Linda Eder and Sarah Brightman, he's a crossover artist, equally at ease on the West End and Broadway and in Las Vegas. Rent's "Seasons of Love" is the best example of this strategy. The synth-heavy arrangements get close to the cheese zone at times, but Ball's power pipes mostly overcome them. The album's centerpiece is the delirious title song from Phantom of the Opera, a duet with Lesley Garrett. It comes across like old-school Queen trying its damnedest to write a Broadway hit. It's so over the top, so flamboyantly bombastic, that only a terminal snob wouldn't love it. Or at least crack a smile. --Elisabeth VincentelliBall is Right at Home with These Songs as his Stardom Came as a Result of his Stage Career. He Stretches Out a Bit with Songs from "Phantom of the Opera","a Little Night Music","The Lion King" and Many More.
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