SUSAN WATSON sings "I LEAVE YOU WITH A LOVE SONG" by WALTER WILLISON & JEFFREY SILVERMAN
- Duration: 5:09
- Published: 2010-04-17
- Uploaded: 2010-10-19
- Author: BroadwayGoldnAge
SUSAN WATSON sings "I Leave You With a Love Song" with lyrics by Walter Willison and music by Jeffrey Silverman, her show stopping eleven o'clock number from the hit musical comedy "FRONT STREET GAIETIES: Dodge City's Hottest Revue". When the show opened on November 11, 1980 at The Mayfair Music Hall, Santa Monica, California, Rick Talcove, of the Daily News, proclaimed "Susan Watson has one of the purest voices in the American theater, and her work on this occasion only confirms the matter." Critics raved about the show itself, as well. John C. Mahoney of The Los Angeles Times praised the score as "More than a dozen new, yet instant, evergreens by Walter Willison and Jeffrey Silverman." And Ron Pennington, writing in The Hollywood Reporter, summed it up as "An extremely clever concept, marvelously realized and staged and directed, with a number of delightful original songs."FRONT STREET GAIETIES" has a book & lyrics by Walter Willison, a Tony nominee and Theatre World Award winner whose Broadway appearances include "TWO BY TWO", "PIPPIN", "NORMAN, IS THAT YOU?", "GRAND HOTEL", "A CHRISTMAS CAROL", and the title role in Wright & Forrest "KEAN" Off-Broadway, in which he also costarred with Ms. Watson. After making her debut as Kim McAfee in the original cast of "BYE, BYE, BIRDIE", Susan Watson quickly became the quintessential Broadway ingenue of the 1960s, earning a Tony Award nomination for "A JOYFUL NOISE", followed by "CARNIVAL", "BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS", "CELEBRATION <b>...</b>