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Flash: Audra McDonald sings standards! In the hotly awaited follow-up to her debut CD, Way Back to Paradise, Broadway's most adventurous singer offers a shrewdly mixed bill of old favorites (The Man That Got Away) and postmodern show tunes (Come Down from the Tree). Her silver voice is smoky yet refined, her diction clear as a cold mountain stream. Best of all is a passionately sung medley of Leonard Bernstein's Somewhere and Adam Guettel's How Glory Goes (from Floyd Collins), which she turns into a haunting declaration of doubt-flecked faith...
...Lohr: McDonald...
...Flehinger: McDonald...
...Gordon: McDonald...
...There are old people who have been coming here for a million years," he says. "Unlike McDonald's, it's kind of your place, your little slice of history, of memorabilia, and it's real. People feel that they can come in here and see their friends, see the same waitresses...