Darrin Baker, currently starring opposite Dick Van Patten in the world premiere burlesque musical Scandals, duets with several divas on his first CD release, "What's A Nice Girl Like You..." Lending their voices are Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line), Dee Hoty (Footloose), Karen Mason (Sunset Boulevard), Alice Ripley (James Joyce's The Dead), Liz Larsen (A New Brain), real life wife Mylinda Hull (Damn Yankees), Catherine Cox (Footloose), Liz Larsen (A New Brain), Christiane Noll (Jekyll & Hyde) and a semi-diva, La Cage Aux Folles' Harvey Evans. Tracks on the CD include the following numbers with Baker:
"All I Need Is A Girl/Hundreds of Girls" -- Hull, Larsen, Rosemary Loar, Noll, and Sandy Rosenberg
"I Won't Dance/Cheek To Cheek" -- McKechnie
"Side By Side" -- Noll
"It's Like" -- Cox
"A Room Without Windows" -- Hull
"You're Far From Home/Angelina" -- Mason
"Being With You" -- Larsen
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" -- Hoty
"No Words Need Be Spoken" -- Ripley
"With You On My Arm" -- Evans
Baker last appeared on Broadway in Footloose. Other credits include Sunset Boulevard, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Les Miserables and the Off-Broadway musical, Little By Little, opposite Larsen and Noll.
"What's A Nice Girl Like You" will retail for $16.95 and is available at Footlight Records in Greenwich Village, Midtown Manhattan's VirginMegastore, Tower Records on the Upper West Side and online at http://www.car-jam.com.
