publish time

05/03/2016

author name Arab Times

publish time

05/03/2016

This photo provided by O&M Co shows Sydney Lucas as Small Alison, Beth Malone as Alison, and Emily Skeggs as Medium Alison in ‘Fun Home’ at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York. (AP) This photo provided by O&M Co shows Sydney Lucas as Small Alison, Beth Malone as Alison, and Emily Skeggs as Medium Alison in ‘Fun Home’ at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York. (AP)
The Broadway musical “Fun Home” had fun at a different home when cast members went to Spotify’s New York headquarters and knocked out new takes on their Tony Award-winning songs. The result, available online Friday, marks the first time a Broadway show has participated in Spotify Sessions, the music service’s streaming program of intimate in-studio performances and conversations.

During the six-song session, Gabriella Pizzolo sang an a capella version of “Ring of Keys” accompanied by a seven-member choir; Beth Malone sang “Telephone Wire” with the show’s composer, Jeanine Tesori, on piano; Judy Kuhn performed “Days and Days” with a harpist; and Pizzolo, Malone and Emily Skeggs joined for the show’s finale, “Flying Away,” with harp and piano.

The session also included the song “Pony Girl,” a soft lullaby in the show that Tony-winning actor Michael Cerveris and his band, Loose Cattle, transformed into a violin-and-guitar foot stomper. And listeners will get a real treat with the seriously goofy “Changing My Raincoat,” in which Joel Perez raps and Roberta Colindrez beatboxes a hysterically funky take on the song “Changing My Major,” which was sung backstage to keep things loose. “It’s really fun because I love arrangements and when we were told about this and invited to revisit the songs, I thought, ‘Let’s really revisit them. Let’s let it be an opportunity,’” Tesori said afterward. (AP)