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Wonder In The World | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kelli O'hara
Label: Ghostlight
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 21777
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 83309
UPC: 791558330922
EAN: 0791558330922
ASIN: B00168PTDI
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED
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| Tracks:
| • | The Sun Went Out - Kelli O'Hara, Naughton, Greg | | • | Wonder in the World - Kelli O'Hara, Connick, Harry Jr. | | • | And So It Goes - Kelli O'Hara, Joel, Billy | | • | Here Now - Kelli O'Hara, OHara, Kelli | | • | And I Love You So - Kelli O'Hara, Mclean, Don | | • | Spooky - Kelli O'Hara, Buie, Buddy | | • | All You Get Is Me - Kelli O'Hara, Connick, Harry Jr. | | • | All the Way - Kelli O'Hara, Cahn, Sammy | | • | Fable - Kelli O'Hara, Guettel, Adam | | • | Slowly - Kelli O'Hara, Connick, Harry Jr. | | • | Fire and Rain - Kelli O'Hara, Taylor, James | | • | I Love You the World - Kelli O'Hara, OHara, Kelli | | • | I Have Dreamed - Kelli O'Hara, Rogers, Richard | | • | Make Someone Happy - Kelli O'Hara, Comden, Betty |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 This Gal Can Sing! November 13, 2008
Ms. O'Hara has a beautiful voice. She is also very versatile -- few vocalist's can go from a sultry hushed vocal like on "Slowly" (you're dead if this doesn't put you in an amorous mood!), to a modern pop song like "The Sun Went Out", to a standard pop tune like "All the Way", to raising the roof in an almost operatic version of "I Have Dreamed". Her version of "Make Someone Happy" leaves me with a tear in my eye and hope in my heart -- it's more beautiful than I can say! There are some unexpected gems like "And So It Goes" This record is a must have. Her intonation is superb. The arrangements courtesy of her musical collaborator Harry Connick Jr. are nothing short of stunning (see the Broadway Cast CD of the Pajama Game -- they pair up on that project too -- excellent CD -- it's actually a double CD set, check out "Steam Heat" -- Scorching!). Speaking of stunning, check out the recording... Wow. It's so natural sounding, truly Hi-FI, not all hyped up and drowning in reverb like so many records of this genre. You know this was recorded with the musicians all together at the same time, not piece-meal as are just about everything else these days... Old School, just magnificent, stunning sound! Kudos to the engineer, who I just noticed did many of HC Jr's Best sounding CD's... Makes sense... Mr Connick seems to surround himself with equal talents. Can't wait to hear the next one from this talented lady!
Lovely, sweet voice with much personality. July 15, 2008
Kelli O'Hara has a wonderful sweet voice and much personality with a technically well placed voice.
 OK June 16, 2008
I LOVE Kelli Ohara and think her voice is amazing. this CD is mostly pop style with a hushed approach. It disappointingly didn't show nearly what she's capable of. I wanted more variety, and really longed to hear her open up and let that voice go. There are a few interesting arrangements and songs. I actually like the ones she wrote. Harry Connick's vocals were a bit disappointing too. I'm not sure if the B- grade is due to her song selections, or to the arranging or producing, but I think it wasn't Kelli at her best.
I LOVED the arrangement and handling of "Fable" from "Light in the Piazza". Very interesting and sensitive and beautiful.
Kelli O'Hara-Wonderful! June 13, 2008
This collection of songs is new and refreshing. Having heard Kelli sing on Broadway in Pajama Game, My Fair Lady, South Pacific and others, I was well aware of her talent and passion! These selections by written by Harry Connick, Jr., Billy Joel, Greg Naughton (Kelli's husband) and Kelli, herself, are wonderful. Her voice is crystal clear and her beauty shows through and through. This is a cd that you will enjoy over and over.
A lovely album from a rising star May 22, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
In the past five years, Kelli O'Hara as emerged as one of the most talented stars of musical theater suggesting that we might finally be seeing a soprano heir to the thrones of Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews. After creating a few roles in musicals ranging from the brilliant and underrated (My Life With Albertine), to the dire (Dracula) Kelli's poignant portrayal of Clara Johnson in The Light in the Piazza made her a rising star and subsequent roles in The Pajama Game, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, and Sunday in the Park With George confirmed that status. I've been waiting for Kelli O'Hara's solo album since she announced that it was in the works back when she was doing The Pajama Game. Actually I've been hoping for it ever since I heard The Light in the Piazza OBCR. So does it live up to expectations? Yes and no. When it was announced that Harry Connick Jr. would be the producer I was worried that he would sort of take over and make it his project. That fear was unfounded. Yes, Kelli sings three of his songs, but she also includes one song penned by her husband, Greg Naughton ("The Sun Went Out"), one from her breakthrough musical ("Fable" from Piazza), one that her father requested ("I Have Dreamed"), two she wrote herself, as well as several covers. Of the Harry Connick Jr. songs, the title song "Wonder in the World" (which they sing as a duet) is the best. It's a pop ballad that has sort of a musical theater flavor. Another highlight is Kelli's original song "I Love You The World" as well as a cover of "And So It Goes". Kelli's rendition of Piazza's "Fable" isn't the same as the version Victoria Clark owned onstage. Rather it's a new arrangement by Connick Jr, that according to Kelli is how Clara might hear the song: it's a pretty, soothing, lullaby. It lacks the raw emotion of the stage version but it's in keeping with the mellow feel of the album. Ditto for Kelli's other musical theater covers. It's disappointing that she chose not to use her gorgeous head voice more on songs like "I Have Dreamed" and "Make Someone Happy" but that may have lent an intensity that wasn't appropriate to an album that has more of an easy listening feel. Overall this is a lovely album that I enjoy listening to. It leaves me wanting more which I guess can be seen as both positive and negative. Kelli has a BA in Opera and ample musical theater experience. We hear her jazzy, mellow, pop sound on this album. Hopefully on her next she'll let us see another side of herself. Just a side note: the CD booklet (I use the term loosely) comes with the cover art, some song info, and another picture of Kelli. Considering Kelli is a beautiful woman more photos would have been nice. Considering Kelli involved a lot of people close to her soe liner notes wouldn't have been amiss, and seeing how the album features several original songs, lyrics would have been nice. That's a relatively minor quibble though. The music is the important thing to me.
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