My First Affair

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2008's Love Letters was also in The Oak Room
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My First Affair

Release Date: April 6, 2007
Label: Skinny White Girl Records

MY FIRST AFFAIR from Lari White features the music debuted at the famed Oak Room Cabaret at The Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan, New York City, during her one week show in February 2007.

PRODUCED BY: Lari White
RECORDED LIVE BY: Chris Herles and Jean Pierre Perreaux

At the Metropolitan Room at Gothan, courtesy Chris Mazzilli
DIRECTED BY: Eric Michael Gillett
MUSICIANS: Don Rebic (piano); Steve Doyle (bass)
As premiered at the Oak Room in The Algonquin Hotel,
Manhattan , February 27 – March 3, 2007

©(p)2007 Skinny WhiteGirl Records

Track List

  1. Please Be Kind / Gotta Have Me
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  • Doatsy Mae
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  • Minor Changes
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  • Museums
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  • Forgiveness' Embrace
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  • Love Me or Leave Me
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  • Richard Rogers Medley
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  • Over and Over
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  • Yentl Medley
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    • click on track title for lyrics and song information

    Reviews for My First Affair

    A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Broadway
    July 2, 2007

    THE NEW YORK TIMES
    By STEPHEN HOLDEN

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    CDBaby Review for My First Affair
    May 22, 2007

    4 out of 5 STARS
    “My First Affair” is courageous and satisfying; further, it’s primed to add dimension to her already impressive resume.

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    Cabaret Scenes Review of "My First Affair"
    March 1, 2007

    There was a new sparkle in the Oak Room this season - and it wasn't the decor. It came from petite, vivacious Nashville singer, Lari White, making her Algonquin Oak Room debut. Displaying pop energy, engaging humor and a silver-toned voice, she offered a mix of pop, country, gospel and Broadway numbers, as well as a generous helping of songs by contemporary writers such as Steven Lutvak, Stephen Schwartz, Carol Hall, Lisa DeSpain -- and herself.

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    Grammy Winner White Mixes Nashville, Broadway in Cabaret Debut
    March 1, 2007

    Review by Jeremy Gerard for Bloomberg

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    Theater Mania - LariWhite: My First Affair
    February 28, 2007
    Reviewed By: Brian Scott Lipton · Feb 28, 2007  · New York

    If the director Bartlett Sher is in town and if he hasn't decided on his Nellie Forbush for the upcoming Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific, may I humbly suggest that he hotfoot it over to the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, where Grammy Award winner and (briefly) Broadway star Lari White is making a most auspicious cabaret debut in a show cheekily entitled My First Affa

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