Osnes,Laura If I Tell You CD

Broadway's newest star, Laura Osnes - Tony-nominated for her leading role in Bonnie and Clyde and currently starring in the title role of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella - takes on the work of one of the Great White Way's most celebrated composer-lyricists. Laura Osnes: IF I TELL YOU (Songs of Maury Yeston) is the first solo album devoted to songs by the Tony-winning composer of Nine: The Musical, Grand Hotel, Titanic and Death Takes a Holiday. Yeston waited nearly thirty years before allowing a solo disc devoted to his work, but he found the perfect interpreter in Osnes, with her crystalline soprano, her delicate yet devastating way with a lyric, and her youthful effervescence and intensity. Drawn from Osnes's sold-out performances at 54 Below in November of 2012, IF I TELL YOU includes a generous selection of Yeston's musical theatre songs (including several handpicked for this album and receiving their first recording here), as well his ravishing December Songs. Following the 54 Below dates, a writer for Playbill.com hailed Osnes's "sophisticated powerhouse performance that had me weeping in public. " Now that memorable performance is lovingly preserved in a new studio recording.

1. If I Tell You 2. Shimmy Like They Do in Paree/I Want to Go to Hollywood [From Death Take 3. Danglin' 4. New Words [From in the Beginning] 5. December Snow 6. Where Are You Now? 7. Please Let's Not Even Say Hello 8. When Your Love Is New 9. Bookseller in the Rain 10. My Grandmother's Love Letters 11. I Am Longing 12. I Had a Dream About You 13. By the River 14. What a Relief 15. Only with You [From Nine] 16. I Still Hear the Music 17. Bon Soir [From Goya]