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1. | A Good Crowd Goin'... | | |
2. | Heart Behind These Hands | | |
3. | Thank You, Sir | | |
4. | Scene One | | |
5. | Christmas Makes Me Cry | | |
6. | Not A Sound | | |
7. | Brooklyn Grew Up | | |
8. | Creating Once Upon A Time | | |
9. | Once Upon A Time | | |
10. | A Witness To History | | |
11. | Superlover | | |
12. | The Challenge | | |
13. | Brooklyn In The Blood | | |
14. | Brooklyn Grew Up (Reprise) | | |
15. | Magic Man | | |
16. | Once Upon A Time (Reprise) | | |
17. | Love Was A Song | | |
18. | I Never Knew His Name | | |
19. | The Truth | | |
20. | Does Anybody Wanna Buy A Memory? | | |
21. | Raven | | |
22. | Sometimes | | |
23. | Madison Square Garden | | |
24. | Love Me Where I Live | | |
25. | Love Fell Like Rain | | |
26. | Magic Man (Reprise) | | |
27. | Streetsinger | | |
28. | Once Upon A Time (Reprise) | | |
29. | Heart Behind These Hands (Reprise) | | |
When Brookyn the Musical landed on Broadway, many reviewers said that the American Idol sound had come along with it. It¹s hard to disagree, especially when Eden Espinosa, playing the title character, opens her mouth. Espinosa, who learned the performing ropes in California theme parks, is an unfocused belter who mistakes grandstanding melisma for emotion. And overemoting is the last thing you want to do when you have to deliver lines such as 'This weight in my heart/This ache in my soul/This yearning in my heart just keeps on going on/There's a voice deep inside/And it cries and it cries.' Unfortunately, the tunes (mixing rock, gospel and R&B, and recorded in front of a live studio audience) don't make much of an impact. Newcomers Mark Shoenfeld and Barri McPherson have come up with a well-meaning show that brims with enthusiastic naïveté but ultimately fails to convince.