XENA: WP v.3 -THE BITTER SUITE- -A Musical Odyssey- Varese Sarabande VSD-5918 TRACKS: 9. Music Composed by Joseph LoDuca. Copyright 1998.

Tracks: The Sweat Hut/Slapped Out of It/Xena's In Town, Horrible Drag/On the Edge/Song of the Fool, What's Still Unwritten (Song of Illusia)/Little Ditties/Into the Chandra/Joxer the Mighty/Prepping Gabby, War And Peace/Gab Is Stabbed, Melt Into Me/Let Go, Dead?/Hearts Are Hurting (Part 1), The Deliverer, Hate Is the Star (Song of the Torment)/Hearts Are Hurting (Part 2), The Way Out/The Love of Your Love/Passing Through.

Nostalgic highlights are not marked at all.
Because this volume's tracks are far too connected to be divided into a few highlights! :)

Personal fave: The Love of Your Love.
Intrumental: Horrible Drag/On the Edge...-track. (The Gabdrag is awful, but the dramatic music is damn good!)
Best musical number: War And Peace.

The Bitter Suite will always be known as the first and storywise most outstanding musical episode in XWP. The end of the Rift. Powerful lyrics. And they actually did it! How did it turn out? Well...

As a musical freak who worship Les Misérables, Kristina from Duvemåla and The Phantom..., I can't say that TBS can compete with any established works. It's astonishing to be able to produce an entire original score for a single TV episode. Under the circumstances TBS is an ok musical. Fun idea, some brighter highlights, etc. The symbolic meaning behind the lyrics made the album, the episode and the music.

Buy it! It's good, Lucy is in great shape, and it was the first XWP musical. To hear the actors sing is quite a thrill! (Even if Renee and Hudson are very much dubbed.)