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Music : Mark Twain Tonight (Original Cast)
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Mark Twain Tonight (Original Cast) by: Hal Holbrook, Hal Holbrook CD-Charts Price: $11.98 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0696998622821 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: January 08, 2002 Studio: Sony Sales Rank: 21600 MPN: 86228 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: While the Ken Burns PBS machine kicked into high gear to promote the filmmaker's stylistically familiar 2002 hagiography of American literary and humor icon Mark Twain, veteran actor Hal Holbrook took a much more personal route, exalting Twain's legend worldwide for 50 years via his remarkable one-man stage show, Mark Twain Tonight! Indeed, Burns wisely incorporated Holbrook's legacy into his own film. But as longtime admirers of Holbrook's show will attest, the performances culled together here (from three Holbrook-Twain show albums) for their CD debut represent something more artistically transcendent than mere performance. They're exhaustively researched, cleverly edited, and shrewdly supplemented, and Holbrook does more than offer up dramatic readings of Twain's words; he eerily breathes life into the cantankerous, complex Missourian until the actor virtually disappears behind Twain's raspy voice, insightful vision, and razor wit. Ranging like a hungry coyote on topics from political shenanigans to smoking, hypocrisy, and the nature of man and his God, Holbrook gives us a restless, conscientious Twain--and some insights as uncomfortably timely in the 21st century as they were in the 19th. --Jerry McCulley Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - The Best of Hal Holbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight!'I saw "Mark Twain Tonight!" with the "original cast," as Hal Holbrook is still doing his quintessential one-man show. That would be well over 2,000 times since he first essayed the role of Mark Twain in 1959. That was also the year that the first of three record albums capturing his performance was released. Now, what you have to understand is that Holbrook has sixty-six separate selections that he can work into a given performance. When you see him perform, you can expect a third of them to show up. If you had all three records then you would have the equivalent of a full performance of "Mark Twain Tonight!" but that would still not be even half of what is out there. In case you were wondering, here is what was on those ... Read More: Rating:  - This may not be what you think...This is not the version that I loved back in the seventies. It doesn't have the "Interview" or the story about the "bevy of nude young native ladies" and how he sat on their clothes... so they wouldn't be stolen. Its as if someone removed some of the finest and most funny parts of the original LP and replaced it with something more politically correct. I feel rather [like soemthing's missing]. You may feel the same way if you ever heard the original selections. Too bad... Rating: - At long last, this show appears on CD...Hal Holbrook's one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight" took Broadway by storm in 1959. Eventually, three records were issued of the material Holbrook alternated in his performances. I bought all three, and have been waiting many years for a CD version. Finally, Columbia/Sony/Legacy (whatever they want to call themselves) have issued one CD with material from each of the original LP's represented. People who like this kind of performance will argue as to whether the selections on this disc are really the best choices, because we each have our favorites. Some monlogues are laugh-out-loud funny, some philosophical, some sad, some even bitter. Holbrook knows his Twain, and Clemens/Twain was all of those things mentioned above at various stages of his ... Read More: |
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