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73, about his sixth recording.
"Everybody got into the project quickly
and enjoyed doing it. I can't remember
an unhappy moment..
ach 1949 graduate of Detroit's
"I chose the musical director, Alex
Central High School will get a
Rybeck, and the singers. The orchestra-
special gift when the class has
tions were done in Milwaukee after the
its Labor Day Weekend reunion. The
voices and piano performances were
presents come as part of a labor oftOve
for fellow alum Ralph Chicorel and will taped in New York."
be as current as the daily Oprah Winfrey • The audiotape, which has 30 songs
and instrumentals spread over 42
Show.
tracks, expresses many emotions
Chicorel, who grew up in Michigan
through Chicorel's music and lyrics to
and moved away to open the first
capture the love story of a married
Weight Watchers franchise in
woman
enchanted by a handsome
Wisconsin, has turned his retirement
count. It starts with the happy "Skate
into an exploration of his composing
With Me," becomes somber through
talents and recently produced the CD
Its a Terrible Omen," waxes dramatic
Anna Karenina, The Audio MusicaL
with "The Right to Leave" and ends
based on the Leo Tolstoy novel just
with the hopeful "Great New Joy."
picked by Winfrey as the summer
Chicorel, raised as part of Detroit's
selection of her book club.
Sephardic community
Any reader not
organized by his parents,
up to tackling
the late Jacob and Judith
the 862-page
Chicorel, wanted to be an
classic can pop
and d graduated from
Chicorel's ver-
the American Academy of
sion into a car
Dramatic Arts in New York
CD player and
after serving with the
experience a
Marine Corps during the
sense of the
Korean War. As he started
book in narra-
pursuing theater jobs,
tion supplement-
Chicorel's stage career was
ed by Broadway-
cut short by his father's
caliber songs.
heart disease, which
Performers are
Chicorers
musical
versi
on
of
'Anna
prompted a return to the
touring stage
Karenina"
contains
30
songs
and
Motor City.
pros, including
instrumentals spread ov er 42 tracks.
Not thinking
Lorna Dallas as
about Broadway,
Anna and Brian
Chicorel partnered
Noonan as Vronsky.
with his late brother
Dallas, who has appeared with the
David to open a
Metropolitan Opera National
restaurant and
Company to star in Showboat, has
lounge, the
worked extensively in London's musical
Kenwood, at
theater. Noonan, recently touring with
Telegraph and Five
Robert Goulet in South Pacific, has
Mile, in 1957.
been in the Broadway spotlight
During their nine
Phantom
of
the
through productions of
years of food serv-
Opera and Les Miserables.
ice, they main-
The recording (LML Music; $14.95) .
tained a dance floor
Ralph Chicore•
is narrated by Paul Stolarsky, another
"It took me about and hired bands to
former Detroiter. Stolarsky's Broadway
an hour a day for work weekends.
credits include Nuts, My Favorite Year
`After hearing
two years to get .
and The Front Page.
`Anna Karenina" the bands' routines,
"This has been the happiest creative
my
I began to
togethen"
experience of my life," says Chicorel,

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

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