Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found a job in his future field of food, as a busboy at McDonald...
Where did the sassy, savvy show tunes of yesteryear go? Has the all-American genre been smothered in middlebrow blandness by Andrew Lloyd Webber and his carpetbag clones? Way Back to Paradise (Nonesuch/Atlantic), the first solo album from three-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, points to smarter times ahead for the Great White Way. It contains 14 songs by five young composers who specialize in musical theater, none of which sound even remotely like Memory. All are highly listenable; a few, downright remarkable...
Anyone who has seen Ragtime knows there is no finer singer on Broadway than McDonald. A 28-year-old Juilliard School graduate who opted for musical comedy over grand opera, she has a tangy, beautifully focused soprano voice and an intensely evocative way with words. She could make a toothpaste jingle sound poignant--and the songs on Way Back to Paradise are anything but mindless tunes. Jason Robert Brown's Stars and the Moon tells the wry tale of a material girl who brushes off a series of poor but ardent suitors only to learn that yachts and champagne aren...
...will the saloon singers of the next century still be crooning George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer? Or is a new generation of as-yet-unknown popular songwriters quietly turning out tomorrow's standards today? Perhaps Audra McDonald will answer that question on her next album...
...Alden J. McDonald III '99 was also lotteried out of the course. He complained about the lack of preferences for seniors and said "too many core classes were lotteried this semester...