After a year of performing her cabaret act in various New York venues, three-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) wanted a record of her endeavors. “I was selling my old album [at performances], which didn’t really represent the [current] show so I said, ‘Let’s just go in and record it so we have this little memory of where we are in time,’” O’Hara told Broadway.com, “then of course once you get involved, you get so passionate and it becomes a much bigger deal.” The result? O’Hara’s new solo album, Always, which hits stores May 31.
Unlike O’Hara’s first solo effort, Wonder in the World, the new album is mostly composed of classic showtunes and standards. “I hadn’t really made a theater album for theater fans aside from original cast recordings,” she said of her song selections. O’Hara even decided to do a little gender-bending on the album by tackling several songs traditionally sung by men. “I haven’t heard a lot of recordings of women singing these songs. It just seemed like something a little different to do.”
Among the “male” songs O ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Kelli O'Hara on Her New Solo Album, Town Hall Concert and Those Funny Girl Rumors
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