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13 | 
 enlarge | Creator: Jason Robert Brown
Label: Ghostlight
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 668
Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 84413
UPC: 791558441321
EAN: 0791558441321
ASIN: B001G54702
Release Date: November 25, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED!
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| Tracks:
| • | 13 / Becoming A Man | | • | The Lamest Place In The World | | • | Hey Kendra | | • | Get Me What I Need | | • | What It Means To Be A Friend | | • | All Hail The Brain/ Terminal Illness | | • | Getting Ready | | • | Any Minute | | • | Here I Come | | • | Opportunity | | • | Bad Bad News | | • | Tell Her | | • | It Can't Be True | | • | If That's What It Is | | • | A Little More Homework | | • | Brand New You | | • | 13 (single version Bonus Track) | | • | A Little More Homework (single version Bonus Track) |
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Amazon.com
On paper, this tuner about, and played exclusively by kids (the title refers to their age and the bar mitzvah around which the plot revolves) seemed like an odd fit for Jason Robert Brown. This, after all, is a composer who made his initial splash with the somber Parade and the two-hander The Last Five Years, about the unraveling of a marriage. But surprise! Brown’s score, lightweight but very fun pop, is the best thing about the show - okay, along with the swell cast of freakishly gifted children. The book, about a NYC kid adjusting to life in a small Indiana town, is rather cliche?no wonder the characters are identified by one- and two-word descriptions ("outsider," "loser," "drama queen," etc.) on the booklet’s back cover. But on their own, the songs work well, and Brown proves adept at coming up with killer hooks ("Hey Kendra" is a really funny take on an R&B seduction number and "It Can’t Be True" has an unfortunate way of drilling itself into your head). The show pokes fun at Disney a couple of times, but it actually sounds not unlike a musical-theater take on the High School Musical franchise. -- Elisabeth Vincentelli
Album Description
A grown-up story about growing up, featuring the only all-teenage cast ever to hit Broadway! With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (The Last 5 Years, Songs ForA New World), 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.
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 We all loved the play! January 5, 2009
We took our 10 year old son to see the play, and he LOVED it!!! It is a wonderful coming of age story - bar mitzvah references notwithstanding! So glad to see the CD available here. Big mega-store didn't have it.
Unpretentious Fun December 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm still waiting for Jason Robert Brown to write a musical as worthwhile as his "Parade," but in the meantime, "13" is a fun diversion. It's not really ambitious, and it's a tad gimmicky (an ALL TEEN cast! WITH an ALL TEEN band!), but I'm thankful it's not pretentious, like his overrated "The Last Five Years."
The recording is solid from beginning to end, with no real clunkers-- it's a good score with smart lyrics, adding some freshness to what are really the usual teen cliches-- geek going for the popular girl, mean girls, sweet outcast girl who likes the new kid, everyone trying to "fit in," etc. When the jock character sings about giving the popular girl "the tongue" you can't help but smile--feels so quaint in comparison to the sexed up teens of "Spring Awakening"(and come to think of it, quaint in comparison to REAL LIFE 13 year-olds!).
Instead of the angst of "Spring," what we get here is a bunch of catchy, mainly upbeat songs sung by some very capable, and even charming, young performers. To be sure, a cd full of teenage singers (YOUNG teenagers at that) is not one I would expect to be replaying often. But what can I say? They won me over.
Surprising personal sidenote: According to my itunes, my most played song on the cd is "Opportunity," an infectious pop-rock tune sung with great style by the recording's vocal standout Elizabeth Egan Gillies. And wouldn't you know? Cut from the show.
 GREAT SONGS, WONDERFUL PERFORMANCES !! December 1, 2008
Energetic and catchy original songs from composer Jason Robert Brown and the performances by the all teen cast and band are first rate ! So much more enjoyable than the recycled pop hits that make up the score of many new musicals and the lyrics,too are clever and touching.
By the way ,the rhyme mentioned in a previous review is "exotic/ neurotic" not "erotic" and I do believe most 13 olds know those words and many more !
Why are we hating on JRB! This is AMAZING!!! November 30, 2008
Jason Robert Brown outdoes himself with 13. The only work he's done equal to it is Songs For a New World. I wish that more people could see the genius behind this work. I don't think everybody realizes how grown-up 13 year olds are. 8th or 9th graders know WAYY more that people think they do and can speak quite eloquently when they want to
BRAVA JASON ROBERT BROWN!!!!!
13 November 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Broadway Cast Album boasts some lively,tuneful songs by Jason Robert Brown who also provided the witty and clever lyrics...but perhaps a bit too clever and witty coming from the mouths of 13 year olds. It has been many moons since I was thirteen and perhaps times have changed but at that age I can't recall me or my contemporaries rhyming exotic with neurotic. The cast are all unknowns but they acquit themselves really well and have lots of energy but I was especially impressed with Allie Trimm who plays Patrice.
The main thrust of the show revolves around Evan a young Jewish lad from New York about to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah whose life is turned upside-down when his father leaves his mother for a stewardess. Mother takes Evan and transplants them to a small town in Indiana. Evan decides to gain acceptance faster by trying to impress the older and cooler kids at school. He also hopes this acceptance will make for more guests at his post-poned Bar Mitzvah. The rest of the story involves new friends, betrayal,and Evans scheme to arrange a date for a lunkhead school jock named Brett who is anxious to give Kendra a cheerleader, "the tongue".
The show has not caught on but who is the target audience? It's too grown-up for 13 year olds and too childish for grown-ups. This little red-riding hood of a show would probably be more suited to a small regional theatre than the big,bad wolf that is Broadway.
All in all this a pleasant listening experience but will never be a classic and probably will not be the type of musical I would listen to over and over again.
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