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List Price: $16.98 | | Label: Varese Sarabande
Salesrank: 199958
Released: November 4, 2003 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Colored Lights: The Broadway Album Track Listing:
1. Let Me Entertain You [From Gypsy]
2. Blame It on the Summer Night [From Rags]
3. Raise the Roof! [From the Wild Party]
4. I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love [From the Boy from Oz]
5. On My Own [From Les Misérables]
6. Colored Lights [from The Rink]
7. I'm the Greatest Star [From Funny Girl]
8. Who Are You Now? [From Funny Girl]
9. They All Laughed [From Shall We Dance?]
10. Sex [From Skirts]
11. Maybe This Time [From Cabaret]
12. I Enjoy Being a Girl [From Flower Drum Song]
13. Anytime (I Am There) [From Elegies: A Song Cycle]
Colored Lights: The Broadway Album Reviews:
MISTAKE IN THE CREDITS 
2008-06-23 - Take her or leave her, i give her credit for going broadway, and then spreading these tunes, by these diverse group of artists, out into the stratosphere.
now, to my point: CAN SOMEBODY GET THESE SONG CREDITS RIGHT? RAISE THE ROOF IS FROM THE OFF-BROADWAY 'WILD PARTY' BY ANDREW LIPPA, NOT THE BROADWAY VERSION BY MICHAEL JOHN LACHIUSA.
I don't mind LaChiusa getting royalty money whatever the case, I am a fan of his version of the full length poem, not much of Lippa's, but people. Somebody get this righ and corrected.
Deborah sings Broadway 
2007-11-12 - As the title indicates, yes, Deborah Gibson did record an album of Broadway material; however, she wrote the song "Sex," which is from Skirts, a musical that Deborah is a composer and lyricist on. While Deborah was promoting this album as "bridging pop and Broadway," in the end, it's ultimately a Broadway recording. There's very little in the way of a "pop" sound on the album.
My favorite songs on the disc are: "Anytime (I Am There)" (from Elegies: A Song Cycle), "Raise the Roof!" (from The Wild Party), "They All Laughed" (from Shall We Dance?), "Sex," and "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love" (from The Boy From Oz). Personally, I would have loved to see Deborah promote "Raise the Roof!" as a single, and have issued a disc with some remixes of the song (everytime I hear "Raise The Roof!," I feel like it's screaming to have some dance mixes done of it).
Even though Colored Lights has a Broadway sound to it, it's not a bad album. However, it may not be an enjoyable listen for people who don't have much appreciation for musical theater.
What's happened to Debbie?
2005-04-15 - I am not a staunch Gibson fan like most of the drooling 5-star reviews here. But I loved her in the 80's and think her to be a talented singer-songwriter who puts modern pop moppets to shame. I thought it was awesome when she broke into Broadway and made a steady career of it.
Then I heard 'Colored Lights'.
I ask, Debbie!(sorry, DEBORAH), what has happened to you??
Like others here, I applaud her choice to include lesser-known songs. But in doing so, it really behoves her to SELL them as great songs, not rework them for her own interpretation. I felt like I was listening not to the pure-toned, crystal voice of our favourite teen idol, but someone doing a bad impersonation of her. There is hardly a single line she sings which isn't punctured by bad ennunciation, poor phrasing or a lack of respect for the intent of the composers.
There were no gravelly growls(meant to sound sexy, no doubt, but too overdone to succeed), breathy sighs, uneven tone, lacklustre dynamics, excessive scooping, wavery pitch and lack of top range in the Debbie Gibson I remember. But her voice on this album is such a mere shadow of its youthful self that she resorts to these irritating vocal bandaids to get through the song. Any track that had a 'big finish' invariably caused her to run out of steam long before she got there. A belter, Deb is not.
(and I know what I'm talking about, I'm a trained singer myself. If Deborah has a singing teacher, he/she should be shot).
This album was a huge disappointment for me. I love Broadway, but Deb fails terribly to give these songs the great renditions they deserve.
I should add, I have never had the fortune to see Deb sing live, so for all I know, maybe she COULD have done these songs justice had she avoided the pop slant. But this album shows neither the songs nor any talent she still has to advantage at all.
Listen to some Idina Menzel if you want a pop-feel voice that can also out-Belt them all.
A Taste of Broadway 
2004-10-13 - I've been a fan of her since God only knows. I know she's not just talented but she is very passionate of (her) music. Knowing that she moved herself into broadways, it's rather of a challenge for me to listen to the songs especially when I'm too familiar with her pop genre. But after a while, I'm used to it coz Debbie is still Debbie to me. She's not afraid of re-arranging the original song to her style, at least she knows what she's doing and again she's proven it. My most favourite track is "Colored Lights", it's light, cheerful, somewhat witty and, in a way, brings up my imagination of seeing her (and the casts) on stage performing the song. All in all, Debbie still has a class and style for us to share.
OUCH! 
2004-08-23 - Deborah Gibson is a talented rock star. With a good musical director, she has proved herself to be a wonderful musical theatre performer. This album, however, is a very uneasy marriage of the two genres. She sings every showtune on the album as if it's a pop tune with horrendous bubble gum arrangements. I have seen Miss Gibson in two musicals and have heard her sing showtunes live on other occasions- she knows how to sing showtunes. On this album, however, she's trying to pander to her pop audience and in the process, she created an album that fails as a pop album and as a showtune album. I can only hope that Miss Gibson finds a better musical director the next time she decides to record showtunes.
