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by William Ruhlmann Broadway star Rebecca Luker has made two solo albums previous to this one. The contents of the first, Anything Goes: Rebecca Luker Sings Cole Porter (1996), are self-explanatory, while Leaving Home (2004) combined covers of pop songs from her youth and newly written theater songs she had discovered. Greenwich Time mostly continues the second part of that last description; as Luker writes in her liner notes, "Over the years, I've slowly collected these songs," which are "not only classics by some of Broadway's best, but many are also little-known treasures by the next generation of brilliant songwriters." Actually, most of the songs come from that next generation, and while only a couple are said to be from a specific show (only when that show has already had a stage production), it seems likely that most were written for shows.   » Read more