American Theater Web Review
  2/17/2006

 -- Andy Propst

 Pretty Faces

  From the 2004 New York Musical Theatre Festival comes the recording of Pretty Faces. This show takes audiences from the
  start to finish of the "Miss Global Glamour Girl Beauty Pageant" – a beauty contest for "plus-size" women. The show, which
  boasts book, music and lyrics by Robert W. Cabell, comes across on the recording as warm and energetic cross between A
  Chorus Line and The Full Monty, a blend of "the I hope I get it" sentiment of the former show with the "overcoming stereotypes"
  throughline of the latter. Cabell's written a pop-infused score which often can be a true charmer. Some highlights on the disc
  include the poignant ballad "What's Missing in My Life," delivered smokily by Erica Jean, the comic, if slightly obvious, "Twirling
  for Jesus" (one of the talent numbers from the second act pageant) that Amanda Fackerell puts over with charming brashness,
  and the final triumphant "This Moment is Mine" which is delivered by all of the contestants. Although there's no synopsis for  
  "Faces" in the sharp color booklet that accompanies the disc, listeners will have no problem grasping who's who and what's what
   in this show, which sounds like it might be come a very popular attraction in the country's regional theaters.   

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