Neva Small has had an eclectic career as a Broadway, Hollywood, and recording performer. Her CD My Place In The World, with arrangements and orchestrations by Fred Barton, is a career retrospective including many rare songs never before recorded.  Neva, with her producer Walter Willison, combed her archives and uncovered many hidden treasures, including rare archival recordings, which were re-mastered and included along with the newly-recorded Broadway and off-Broadway repertoire.

"...A beautiful and beautifully orchestrated recording." – Stephen Schwartz

"..Small's voice is just as big, powerful, and distinctive as ever."– Ken Mandelbaum, www.broadway.com

"The CD is bursting with rare theater songs – many of which have never been recorded before – and will be of great interest to fans of musicals and vocals alike." – Steven Suskin, www.playbill.com

"...How well she cooks up this baker's dozens of songs. Neva Small continues to possess a real theater voice, and there's no greater compliment than that!" – Peter Filichia, Theatermania.com

"Neva Small is a great singer, and always has been.  Her CD My Place In The World is a wonderful presentation of Neva's talents.  Singing/acting some truly wonderful and mostly unknown songs, Neva gives full value to the lyric and the beauty of these unknown melodies. A truly beautiful presentation and most enjoyable recording." – Larry Blank, composer/arranger

"Neva Small has a vocal vitality all her own, and a superb way of interpreting a song and making it sound as if no one else could perform it as well." – Jeffrey Lyons

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SONGS

Arrangements/Orchestrations by Fred Barton except as noted.
"Here I Am" (Bob Merrill, from Henry, Sweet Henry):  Neva didn't sing this song when she starred in this Broadway show, but she sure does now.
"The Girl With Too Much Heart" (Bob Merrill, from The Prince Of Grand Street):  Neva starred with Robert Preston in this under-appreciated musical, which closed after its Boston try-out.  This was one of the outstanding Bob Merrill ballads he wrote for her, and this is its first recording.
"You Gotta Taste All The Fruit" (Fain/The Bergmans, from Something More):  This sizzler was cut from the musical Something More, in which Neva appeared at age eleven with Barbara Cook.
"When Messiah Comes" (Bock/Harnick, from Fiddler On The Roof):  Neva appeared in the film version of Fiddler On The Roof, and pays tribute to the piece with this rendition of a witty song cut from the original Broadway show.
"Cigarettes" (Papirosn) (Herman Yablakoff, trans. Levy, from The Golden Land):  Neva appeared off-Broadway in The Golden Land, and recorded this haunting song with the show's assistant conductor Michael Larson.
"The Portrait" (Amanda McBroom):  Amanda McBroom gave Neva this song while they were appearing together in Hoagy & Bix at the Mark Taper Forum; Neva recorded it with solo harp as a tribute to her mother, a harpist.
"I Go On" (Bernstein/Schwartz, from Mass):  Neva appeared in the original Bernstein Mass; Bernstein's lyricist, Stephen Schwarz, refers to the song as a "secret favorite," and when he heard this recording, he told Neva:  "I am delighted to have such a beautiful and thoughtfully rendered out-of-context recording of it."
"I Feel Like New Year's Eve" (Fain/The Bergmans, from Something More):  This was Barbara Cook's eleven-o'clock number in Something More, and Neva's recording has been hailed as a highlight of her album.  
"Riverboat Shuffle" (Hoagy Carmichael):  Neva sang this archival gem in Hoagy & Bix at the Mark Taper Forum; no cast album was made, but Neva and a handful of top musicians made this recording, arranged by Richard Sudhalter (Dave Frishberg on piano).
"Show Me Where The Good Times Are" (Jacobson/Rhoda Roberts, from Show Me Where The Good Times Are):  Neva appeared in this off-Broadway show, and gives its simultaneously wistful and rousing title song its first recording (excerpted here).
"Peach Ice Cream" (G. Wood, from F. Jasmine Adams):  Neva appeared in this musicalization of Member Of The Wedding, and Theresa Merritt introduced this haunting spiritual lullaby. Neva gives it its first recording.
"My Place In The World" (Bob Merrill, from The Prince Of Grand Street):  Bob Merrill once told Neva she was his muse; she and I both agree that he is an under-appreciated master of musical-theatre writing, both in his communicative lyrics and music.  This was Neva's big song in The Prince Of Grand Street, given its début recording here.