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E-mail|Link|Comments (0)Posted by Louise Kennedy March 24, 2010 11:17 AM
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OK, I admit it: The first thing that hooked me on a forthcoming recording, "Poetic License: 100 Poems by 100 Performers," was the short list of said performers in the press release: "Patti LuPone, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tyne Daly, Christine Baranski, Jason Alexander, Charles Busch, Florence Henderson..." Just seeing Busch and Henderson in the same sentence made my day. But then I looked at the list of poems and got excited -- besides the usual suspects (Shakespeare, Auden, Donne) there's a Cavafy, a Pinsky, and Kathleen Turner reading Ariel Dorfman. The 3-CD set is due out April 2 (just in time for National Poetry Month) on Amazon and iTunes, but if you can't wait, here's Jason Alexander reading "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll, apparently with the help of a whole shelf of accent tapes.
01 THE WALRUS and the CARPENTER.m4a
And here's Kathleen herself waxing throatily poetic.
02 Kathleen Turner Interview.m4a
Oh, and Busch? He reads the brilliantly theatrical "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning. Perf