Laura Osnes - If I Tell You (The Songs of Maury Yeston) (2013)

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.

Tracklist:

1. If I Tell You
2. Shimmy Like They Do in Paree / I Want to Go to Hollywood
3. Danglin'
4. New Words
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
16. I Still Hear the Music
17. Bon soir