The Leading Ladies – CD Credits and History

In 2002, John Sawoski arranged, orchestrated, played, conducted, and co-produced an album called The Leading Ladies (currently out of print). The CD featured Lisa Vroman and two other classically trained sopranos who had starred in numerous musicals (including nine Broadway shows) and had sung with symphonies and orchestras worldwide. All three had played Christine Daaé in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and across the country. For more information about the group, please click here.

The Leading Ladies CD (2002)

PERFORMERS: LISA VROMAN, SOPRANO, with TWO OTHER SOPRANOS

JOHN SAWOSKI, MUSICAL DIRECTOR / ARRANGER / PIANIST

DAVID TULL, DRUMS
DAVID R. STONE, BASS

PRODUCED BY: LL4 PRODUCTIONS

RECORDED AND MIXED AT:PRIVATE ISLAND TRAXHOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

RECORDED AND MIXED BY:BRIAN FRIEDMAN

MASTERED AT: 5.1 ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA

MASTERED BY: CHARLIE WATTS

PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID ENGEL

SELECTIONS:

1. It’s a Grand Night for Singing (1:56) Trio
Rodgers/Hammerstein

2. Come To My Garden / Lift Me Up (2:45) Duet with Lisa
Simon/Norman

3. If I Were A Bell (2:14)
Loesser

4. Many A New Day (2:41) Trio
Rodgers/Hammerstein 

5. So In Love (2:34) Lisa
Porter

6. Sing for Your Supper (2:35) Trio
Rodgers/Hart

7. Simple (2:39)
Yeston

8. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, All I Ask of You, Think of Me (4:06) Trio
Lloyd-Webber/Hart/Stilgoe

9. Never, Never Land (3:14) Lisa
Styne/Comden/Green

10. Baubles, Bangles, and Beads 
(3:27)
Forrest/Wright

11. Love Changes Everything, Once Upon A Dream, On My Own
 (5:34) Trio
Lloyd-Webber/Black/Hart/Wildhorn/Bricusse/Cuden/Schonberg/Nunn/Lucchetti/Kretzmer/Caird/Boublil

12. My Ship (3:07)
Gershwin/Weill

13. Memory (3:39) Trio
Lloyd-Webber/Nunn


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