| Songs from the Stage and Screen | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Michael Crawford |
| Cover: | Michael_Crawford_Songs_from_the_Stage_and_Screen_album_cover.jpg |
| Released: | 1987 |
| Studio: | Angel (London) |
| Label: | Telstar |
| Next Title: | With Love / The Phantom Unmasked |
| Next Year: | 1989 |
Songs from the Stage and Screen is the debut studio album by English actor and singer Michael Crawford, together with the London Symphony Orchestra. It was released in 1987 on Telstar Records.[1]
The album features Crawford singing show tunes from various musical theatre and films, and was recorded and released during his successful time playing the award-winning[2] title role in the musical The Phantom of the Opera in London's West End.[1]
In a review for AllMusic, Steven McDonald gave Songs from the Stage and Screen two stars out of five, opining that the combination of Crawford, the London Symphony Orchestra, and "some of the best songs ever written for stage and screen" would be expected "to produce a driving, dynamic album", but instead he described it as "wimpy and weak", and "prone to sub-Anthony Newley moments.
Adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]
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