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Everyone loves the songs of award-winning lyricist/composer Adryan Russ! 15 of today’s hottest Broadway talents are featured on this CD, including Susan Egan, Juliana Ashley Hansen, Michelle Nicastro and Jason Graae!
Peter Filichia, New Jersey Star Ledger
Time for some CDs. I started with Everyone Has a Story: The Songs of Adryan Russ (the songwriter who, with Doug Haverty, wrote the 1994 Off-Broadway group therapy musical Inside Out). This album doesn’t include my two favorite songs from the show, “Let It Go” and “Do It at Home,” for they’re group efforts; but it does feature “I Don’t Say Anything,” in which a passive woman complains: “See how I turn the other cheek when my ass gets kicked?” In “Matters of the Heart,” Russ points out that “Life is not a science; it’s an art.” And “I Want to Live This Love” deserves not only to be a pop hit but a standard.”
Rob Stevens, Showmag Notes
Songwriter Adryan Russ, co-creator along with playwright Doug Haverty of the award-winning musical Inside Out, has just released a CD of her songs on the LML label, Everyone Has A Story. Uber producer Bruce Kimmel produced. Grant Geissman did the arrangements and orchestrations. Russ’ work covers a wide range of moods and emotions as her lyrics look at the human condition. But it’s mostly an upbeat, uplifting experience about the ins and out of love. Titles such as “Matters of the Heart,” “I Hate to See You Go,” “The Better Love Is, The Worse It Is When It’s Over,” and “I Want to Live This Love” give you an idea of the bittersweet, romantic nature of Russ’ songs. Russ and Kimmel have gathered a cornucopia of Southern California musical theater talent to bring the songs to life: Jason Graae, Tami Tappan, Sharon McKnight, Michelle Nicastro, Susan Egan, David Burnham, Lisa Richard and Cindy Benson are among the artists featured. Russ herself takes a turn behind the microphone with “Number.”
