Experiment

Mandy Patinkin

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Experiment Review

by William Ruhlmann

Mandy Patinkin, who can wring the greatest drama or the most manic comedy out of a theater song, used only his most tender interpretive talents for his third album, Experiment. As usual, the selections came almost exclusively from Broadway shows (the exception, Harry Chapin's "Taxi," was a classic story-song), and one-third of them were by Stephen Sondheim. They dated back to the 1920s (Irving Berlin's "Always") and up to the '80s (Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer's "I Dreamed a Dream" and "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables), but Patinkin brought a consistency to them by singing gently in his trembling, innocent tenor, starting with "As Time Goes By" (complete with its rarely sung introductory verse) and ending with Cole Porter's "Experiment." The album was in a sense one long suite or, given the brevity of many of the selections, one long medley, the songs often segueing seamlessly into each other. The album seemed designed to answer Patinkin's critics, who had found his previous recordings melodramatic and hysterical. He was reined in on the ironically titled "Experiment," but even if this was Mandy Patinkin Lite, it was appealing.

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	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	As Time Goes By Herman Hupfeld	Mandy Patinkin	02:23	Spotify Amazon
2	I'm Old Fashioned Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer	Mandy Patinkin	01:23	Spotify Amazon
3	Somewhere That's Green Howard Ashman / Alan Menken	Mandy Patinkin	02:06	Spotify Amazon
4	Someone Is Waiting Stephen Sondheim	Mandy Patinkin	02:18	Spotify Amazon
5	Something's Coming Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim	Mandy Patinkin	02:21	Spotify Amazon
6	Multitudes of Amys Stephen Sondheim	Mandy Patinkin	02:33	Spotify Amazon
7	Jitterbug Waltz Richard Maltby, Jr. / Fats Waller	Mandy Patinkin	03:46	Spotify Amazon
8	So Many People Stephen Sondheim	Mandy Patinkin	02:26	Spotify Amazon
9	Good Thing Going Stephen Sondheim	Mandy Patinkin	01:37	Spotify Amazon
10	Taxi Harry Chapin	Mandy Patinkin	06:01	Spotify Amazon
11	I Dreamed a Dream Alain Boublil / Herbert Kretzmer / Mourou Jean Claude J. Lucchetti / Claude-Michel Schönberg	Mandy Patinkin	02:50	Spotify Amazon
12	I Wish I Knew Mack Gordon / Harry Warren	Mandy Patinkin	01:16	Spotify Amazon
13	The Road You Didn't Take Stephen Sondheim	Mandy Patinkin	02:17	Spotify Amazon
14	Where or When Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers	Mandy Patinkin	02:05	Spotify Amazon
15	Always Irving Berlin	Mandy Patinkin	03:15	Spotify Amazon
16	How Are Things in Glocca Morra? E.Y. "Yip" Harburg / Burton Lane	Mandy Patinkin	02:13	Spotify Amazon
17	Bring Him Home Herbert Kretzmer / Claude-Michel Schönberg	Mandy Patinkin	03:09	Spotify Amazon
18	Experiment Cole Porter	Mandy Patinkin	01:36	Spotify Amazon

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