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Defying Gravity by Leslie Henstock
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fave it Piano | Musicals/Broadway
12 tracks | 36 minutes
Released Jul 2006
on Leslie Henstock
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:44 Not For the Life of Me lyrics BUY MP3 02:44 Not For the Life of Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:44 Not For the Life of Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:14 I Can't Make You Love Me lyrics BUY MP3 04:14 I Can't Make You Love Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:14 I Can't Make You Love Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:48 Windflowers lyrics BUY MP3 02:48 Windflowers lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:48 Windflowers
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:11 I Can Do Better Than That lyrics BUY MP3 05:11 I Can Do Better Than That lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:11 I Can Do Better Than That
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:05 Think of Me lyrics BUY MP3 03:05 Think of Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:05 Think of Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:33 It Would Have Been Wonderful lyrics BUY MP3 02:33 It Would Have Been Wonderful lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:33 It Would Have Been Wonderful
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:13 Feelings lyrics BUY MP3 01:13 Feelings lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:13 Feelings
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:54 Memory lyrics BUY MP3 03:54 Memory lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:54 Memory
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:22 Soon lyrics BUY MP3 01:22 Soon lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:22 Soon
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:49 Over the Rainbow lyrics BUY MP3 02:49 Over the Rainbow lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:49 Over the Rainbow
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:58 Defying Gravity lyrics BUY MP3 02:58 Defying Gravity lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:58 Defying Gravity
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 Time After Time lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 Time After Time lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 Time After Time
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Bio / Background
Thank you for your interest in my CD, "Defying Gravity." I'm an actress currently on tour as the Clara understudy in The Light in the Piazza, having recently toured the country as Cosette in Les Miserables. Rather than just rattle off the rest of my resume, I thought you might want to know a bit about what got me into theatre in the first place.
According to my family, I was always dramatic. (Go ahead and laugh, because I'm laughing even as I say that to myself!) I used to watch all the classic movie musicals and then proceed to act them out! My family has always enjoyed going to the theatre, so we used to go to whatever musical was in town. I always liked doing that, but it wasn't until we went to Toronto to see The Phantom of the Opera that I totally fell in love with musical theatre.
Eventually, I started going to some summer performing arts camps and taking many more dance classes. And for some reason my Uncle Rick asked me to sing in his wedding when I was about 13 years old.
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A great singing actress, a great selection of songsRayK wrote on March 16, 2007
Leslie Henstock. What a delight she is! A lyric soprano, a belter, a legit Broadway-type singer? Yes, Leslie is all these, but most of all she a singing actress; her songs sensitively interpreted more than simply sung. Listen to the verse of her very first song “Not for the Life of Me” a finely acted piece of storytelling before she rips joyfully into the chorus. Leslie shows her acting ability throughout, in the tenderness of “Wildflowers”, the ditzy humor of “Feelings” (not the old pop song, this is from the Adam and Eve section of the Broadway musical “The Apple Tree”), the edge of determination, toughness and anger in “I Can Do Better Than That”, the gentle warmth of “Time After Time”, and the aching longing of “I Can’t Make You Love Me”. “Think Of Me” from “The Phantom of the Opera” is often thrown off as a high-flying showpiece for sopranos. Leslie has the sweetness and purity of voice for it, and she thrillingly takes the high notes of the cadenza, but she also makes the words mean something. “Soon” from Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” works perhaps the least well of all the tracks, simply because it’s a difficult song to grasp out of context and the ending is so abrupt it feels unfinished. Still, it’s exciting when a singer takes a chance on a difficult, rarely-heard piece. Two other songs that have been heard perhaps too often are “Memory” and “Over The Rainbow”, but Leslie’s manages to make them sound fresh. She darkens her tone to bring out all the emotions of the first, then lightens it for the second, sounding like the young girl the singer is supposed to be. Her take on “It Would Have Been Wonderful” is touchingly wistful, and “Defying Gravity” builds to an electrifying climax. This CD leaves you wanting more…and more… Let’s hope it won’t be too long before Leslie has a follow up CD
I'm singing with her,... but I'm afraid to destroy that goddess voice.ParEtImpar wrote on December 22, 2007
A review above my says everything. Nothing more to add. I couldn't agree more. Let’s hope it won’t be too long before Leslie has a follow up CD.