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Third single from Cherubs. Title track is backed the non album track 'Hey Bunny' (Demo Version). Cargo 2005

A Man of No Importance (2002 Off-Broadway Cast)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Moving
  • A Show Of GREAT Importance
  • A Show of GREAT Importance.
  • A great musical drama from the creators of "Ragtime"
  • a surprise hit :-)
 A Man of No Importance (2002 Off-Broadway Cast)
Stephen Flaherty , Lynn Ahrens , Roger Rees , Faith Prince , and Jessica Molaskey
Manufacturer: Jay Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008VGN4
Release Date: 2003-04-15

Tracks:

  1. A Man of No Importance - Alfie and Company
  2. The Burden of Life - Lily and Alfie
  3. Going Up - Carney and the St. Imelda's Players
  4. Princess - Adele and Alfie
  5. The Streets of Dublin - Robbie and Company
  6. Books - Carney and Lily
  7. Man in the Mirror - Alfie and Oscar Wilde
  8. Love Who You Love - Alfie
  9. Our Father - Mrs. Patrick and Company
  10. Confession - Alfie, Robbie and Father Kenny
  11. The Cuddles Mary Gave - Baldy
  12. Art - Alfie and the St. Imelda's Players
  13. A Man of No Importance (Reprise) - Mrs. Patrick, Breton Beret, Sully O'Hara; Confusing Times - Carney and Alfie
  14. Love Who You Love (Robbie's Reprise) - Robbie and Alfie
  15. Man in the Mirror (Reprise) - Oscar Wilde, Alfie and Company
  16. Tell Me Why - Lily
  17. Love Who You Love (Adele's Reprise) - Adele and Alfie
  18. Welcome to the World - Alfie
  19. Poem - Alfie, Robbie and Company
  20. Love's Never Lost (bonus track) - Sean McCourt and Antoine Silverman

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Moving.......2006-09-24

I first heard about this musical when a friend told me she was auditioning for a production. Her brief synopsis was enough to get me interested, and I got the CD. The musical is based on the 1995 film of the same title, not on a novel. After listening, I was intrigued enough to purchase the movie.

It's the story of a bus conductor in Dublin, Ireland. A quiet man who's job is to collect the fares of bus riders. But he plays a role in the lives of his riders, reciting poetry and verse during the ride, engaging his passengers and making their trip something more than just a ride.

The opening number is a wonderful and poetic description of the seemingly mundane act of riding the bus to work in the morning being transformed from drudgery to a lively part of the daily round.

Many of his riders participate in his amateur theatre productions at a local church hall. His spinster sister has put her life on hold until her brother meets and marries a wife.

The conductor, Alfie, is a homosexual, who retreats from his own life into one of fantasy built around the poetry and prose of his inspiration, Oscar Wilde. His emotional outlets are narrowed to books and cooking, and his creativity is directed to his plays.

As his life rumbles forward on the bus, the pain of living this way becomes clear. The pressures of self denial press in on him. He longs to live a real life, and to feel the pleasures of love with another human being.

He longs, secretly, of the driver of his bus, but is caught in a net of Catholic guilt and social pressures, so shuns involvement in the outside world, preferring the safety and security of the secret world inside his own head.

Until, that is, the need for human interaction - both physical and emotional - drive him to a desperate point.

Beaten and humiliated by his only attempt to be himself, he finds that he is a man of importance to those around him. That being Oscar Wilde isn't who he needs to be, but instead, the man he is, Alfie Byrne.

The musical seems to flesh out some of the characters better than the movie, and improve on some of the vagaries of the film. The motivations of his sister, Lil, are more understandable because her relationship with Carney, the butcher is more clear, for example.

On first hearing, I found the story moving, but a little confusing - mostly keeping the characters in order. After reading the liner notes I had a much better feel for the action and interrelationships, and enjoyed it even more. The music captures the character and emotions of the story quite well.

The score uses Irish influences extremely well, and eschews the current style of rock rhythms and American Idol style vocal acrobatics, resulting in a good, solid and serious musical.

It's a sensitive story, well told by well written and evocative music.

5 out of 5 stars A Show Of GREAT Importance.......2006-02-16

This is another review that I did when I didn't have an account so i'm re-issuing it so that yall know it's me.



Let me first say that if you don't like Irish music, you probably won't like this show.

A Man of No Importance is the perfect example of how off-broadway can have amazing shows too. It is the story of a kind hearted ticket taker, Alfie Burnes who loves oscar wilde and poetry. Enter Robbie Fay, driver of the bus, this is the one on whom Alfie has a crush.
Alfie lives with his sister Lil and heads the comunity theater group, The St. Amelda's players. For their next production Alfie wants to put on "Salome"
I won't give away the whole show but that is the general gist nix the twists and turns taken during the play.

The talent on the cast album is extremly gifted and sing the songs with such believability that you think you might really be in the streets of Dublin, Ireland while you're listining.

Standouts include:
A Man of No Importance
The Burden of Life
Going Up
Princess
The Streets of Dublin
Books
Our Father
Confessions
Art

All in all this album is a good and enjoyable buy.

4 out of 5 stars A Show of GREAT Importance........2005-12-07

Let me first say that if you don't like Irish music, you probably won't like this show.

A Man of No Importance is the perfect example of how off-broadway can have amazing shows too. It is the story of a kind hearted ticket taker, Alfie Burnes who loves oscar wilde and poetry. Enter Robbie Fay, driver of the bus, this is the one on whom Alfie has a crush.
Alfie lives with his sister Lil and heads the comunity theater group, The St. Amelda's players,. For their next production Alfie want to put on "Salome"
I won't give away the whole show but that is the general gist nix the twists and turns taken during the play.
The talent on the cast album is extremly gifted and sind the songs with such believability that you think you might in the streets of Dublin Ireland while you're listining.

Standouts include:
A Man of No Importance
The Burden of Life
Going Up
Princess
The Streets of Dublin
Books
Our Father
Confessions
Art

All in all this album is a good and enjoyable buy.

4 out of 5 stars A great musical drama from the creators of "Ragtime".......2005-10-23

This is a very special little show. Based on a film that starred the great Albert Finney, Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (the team who brought us the musical "Ragtime") have created a haunting and melancholy musical of repression and unrequited love. Roger Rees plays Alfie Byrne - a closeted gay bus conductor who worships Oscar Wilde and lusts after Robbie - his beautiful young bus driver(Steven Pasquale).

Alfie lives with his spinster sister Lily (played by Faith Prince), who refuses to get on with her own life and marry the butcher William Carney (played by Charles Keating).

Alfie reads poetry to the passengers on his bus, and attempts to stage "Salome" with a group of local players. As his yearning for Robbie and his desire to come out of the closet overtakes him, Alfie is rebuffed by the church and encouraged by the ghost of Wilde. Coming out results in initial disaster - a brutal gay-bashing which is nothing compared with complete exposure to family, friends and co-workers.

Terrence McNally has been telling "our" stories for years - "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Love Valor Compassion" - even "The Full Monty." His work here is inspired. The score is what we have on this CD - and it's terrific. Flaherty and Ahrens won a Tony for "Ragtime," and also wrote "Once On This Island," "Seussical" and "Dessa Rose." This score is one of their best (this is a team we should be hearing from for decades). The titular number is a knockout. The ensemble couldn't be improved upon. "Princess" (sung beautfully by Sally Murphy), "Man in the Mirror" and "Love Who You Love" are evocative, character infused ballads. "The Streets of Dublin" is a showstopper. The orchestrations by William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke are outstanding, as is everything about this recording.

4 out of 5 stars a surprise hit :-).......2005-03-08

After doing an Ahrens and Flaherty review at my university, I became drawn to the 2 songs "The Streets of Dublin" and "Love Who You Love". After the show closed, I got my hand on a copy of the whole musical and I haven't stopped listening to it for about a week.

The ability of Ahrens and Flaherty to put you in such a distinct place and time is so evident here. The music and voices are about as Irish as you can get. Each of the singers are perfect, the stanadouts being Jessica Molaskey as Mrs Patrick, and Steven Pasquale as Robbie faye. My favorite songs in the recording have to be the two I already mentioned, "Our Father" and the haunting "Confusing Times"

No, it's not the multilayered, epic story of Ragtime, and it doesn't have to be. "A Man of No Importance" is a lovely, heart-wrenching story about a man looking for his honest place in the world, and will make a fine addition to your showtune collection.
A Man of No Importance
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    		A Man of No Importance
    Original Soundtrack
    Manufacturer: Tristar
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000008OX7
    Release Date: 1995-02-07

    Tracks:

    1. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) - Eartha Kitt
    2. Can't Get Used to Losing You - Andy Williams
    3. Mambo Italiano - Rosemary Clooney
    4. Till - Percy Faith
    5. Make the World Go Away - Ray Price
    6. Love Letters - Ketty Lester
    7. Theme for Young Lovers - Percy Faith
    8. Lodgings
    9. March to the Pub
    10. Church Hall
    11. Zoo
    12. Adele's Goodbye
    13. Makeover
    14. Dream
    15. Bus Chase
    16. Mugged
    17. Confession
    18. Priest
    19. Queensbury
    20. Success
    21. Returning Home
    22. Rehearsal
    Man of No Importance
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      		Man of No Importance
      Cherubs
      Manufacturer: Cargo
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000AMSS52
      Release Date: 2005-08-22

      Tracks:

      1. A Man Of No Importance
      2. Hey Bunny ( Demo Version)

      Album Description

      Third single from Cherubs. Title track is backed the non album track 'Hey Bunny' (Demo Version). Cargo 2005

      Album Details

      Third Single from their Debut Full Length 'uncovered by Heartbeat'. Limited to 500 Copies Only. Includes Exclusive B-side Track, a Demo Version of "Hey Bunny"
      A Man of No Importance - Music From the Motion Picture - Music By Julian Nott
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        		A Man of No Importance - Music From the Motion Picture - Music By Julian Nott
        Julian Nott , Eartha Kitt , Andy Williams , Rosemary Clooney , Percy Faith , Ray Price , and Ketty Lester
        Manufacturer: Sony
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
        ASIN: B000BUG904

        Product Description

        Music From The Motion Picture - A Man Of No Importance / Music by Julian Nott //1. Lets's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) [Eartha Kitt] 2. Can't Get Used to Losing You [Andy Williams] 3. Mambo Italiano [Rosemary Clooney] 4. Till [Percy Faith] 5. Make the World Go Away [Ray Price] 6. Love Letters [Ketty Lester] 7. Theme for Young Lovers [Percy Faith] 8. Lodgings 9. March to the Pub 10. Church Hall 11. The Zoo 12. Adele's Goodbye 13. Makeover 14. Dream 15. Bus Chase 16. Mugged 17. Confession 18. Priest 19. Queensbury 20. Success 21. Returning Home 22. Rehearsal
        Man of No Importance Movie Soundtrack
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          		Man of No Importance Movie Soundtrack
          Soundtrack
          Manufacturer: Red Distribution, in
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B00000E93O
          Release Date: 1995-02-07

          Tracks:

          1. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) - Eartha Kitt
          2. Can't Get Used To Losing You - Andy Willliams
          3. Mambo Italiano - Rosemary Clooney
          4. Till - Percy Faith
          5. Make The World Go Away - Ray Price
          6. Love Letters - Ketty Lester
          7. Theme For Young Lovers - Percy Faith
          8. Lodgings
          9. March To The Pub
          10. Church Hall
          11. The Zoo
          12. Adele's Goodbye
          13. Makeover
          14. Dream
          15. Bus Chase
          16. Mugged
          17. Confession
          18. Priest
          19. Queensbury
          20. Success
          21. Returning Home
          22. Rehearsal

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          1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
          2. Melrose
          3. Milo Goes to College
          4. Movement
          5. Mutiny/Bad Seed Ep
          6. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
          7. No Alternative
          8. No Code
          9. Nothing's Shocking [Explicit Lyrics]
          10. Outlandos d'Amour

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          Looking Up

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