Various Artists - A Catered Affair - Soundtracks - CD

A Catered Affair, the new musical with book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and direction by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, poses the question that inevitably faces every mother and daughter: whose wedding is it anyway? It's 1953, and family ties are strained when a Bronx mother struggles to give her only daughter the elaborate wedding she herself never had - and the bride never asked for. Based on the 1956 motion picture of the same name, the production stars Tony Award-winner Faith Prince as 'Aggie Hurley,' the mother-of-the-bride, Tony Award-winner Tom Wopat as 'Tom Hurley,' the father-of-the-bride, and Fierstein himself as 'Winston,' the uncle-of-the-bride. It's a funny, poignant and oh-so-human tale of love and disaffection, and the tender and melodic score to A Catered Affair - expertly preserved on this original Broadway cast recording - explores both our need for love and the true meaning of family.

By BGM