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re: Extended Clip - Fantasia singing 'Sunny Side of the Street' in After Midnight

Posted by: richmurphy 09:28 pm EST 01/15/14
In reply to: Extended Clip - Fantasia singing 'Sunny Side of the Street' in After Midnight - DistantDrumming 08:32 pm EST 01/15/14

I had high expectations for AFTER MIDNIGHT, having enjoyed performances in the past by Fantasia, Cedric Neal, T. Oliver Reid, and Desmond Richardson. Those expectations were exceeded when I saw the show.

Why can't I find any information about a cast recording? I hope those wonderful performances can be preserved.

For that matter, after hearing Fantasia's take on "Stormy Weather" and "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (in addition to "Sunny Side of the Street"), will someone PLEASE have her record an album of standards? Extra points if the Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars were her backup band.


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After Midnight--cast recording??

Posted by: tocop 09:44 am EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: Extended Clip - Fantasia singing 'Sunny Side of the Street' in After Midnight - richmurphy 09:28 pm EST 01/15/14

How could this not be happening??


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re: Extended Clip - Fantasia singing 'Sunny Side of the Street' in After Midnight

Posted by: DistantDrumming 11:26 pm EST 01/15/14
In reply to: re: Extended Clip - Fantasia singing 'Sunny Side of the Street' in After Midnight - richmurphy 09:28 pm EST 01/15/14

I would love to see a Fantasia album of standards. She's clearly connected very deeply with this music. Whether or not this makes sense for her pop career right now, I can't say. Very often when artists record "standards" albums, it's because they're a bit, well, irrelevant to the current music scene and exploring the standards is a nice way to revive their careers and reach the PBS pledge drive crowd (no offense if that's your demo, folks). I would hope that if she does explore this further, she works with a producer who doesn't try to smooth out all of her rough edges. I think part of what makes her performance in After Midnight so successful is that it doesn't feel simply like pastiche -- like some slick, overly smooth adult contemporary take on these songs -- it feels raw, passionate and startlingly contemporary.

As for a cast recording, who knows if they have the funding? Perhaps they're going to try and do a recording with all of the featured stars later this year?


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re: Extended Clip - Fantasia singing 'Sunny Side of the Street' in After Midnight

Posted by: Zelgo 02:33 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: Extended Clip - Fantasia singing 'Sunny Side of the Street' in After Midnight - DistantDrumming 11:26 pm EST 01/15/14

While I love the clip and the thought of her cut an album of standards, none of these compare to actually seeing the magic she is live in After Midnight!

I just thought WOW! when I saw her.


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Agreed! I can't get that image of her bathed in a thousand lights at the end of 'Stormy Weather' out of my head!

Posted by: DistantDrumming 05:45 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: Extended Clip - Fantasia singing 'Sunny Side of the Street' in After Midnight - Zelgo 02:33 pm EST 01/16/14

Agreed! I can't get that image of her bathed in a thousand lights at the end of 'Stormy Weather' out of my head! That was certainly a 'wow' moment. Perfect blending of vocalist, band, direction, design (costume and lighting).


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re: What's that mean? Spoiler request.

Posted by: Guillaume 06:12 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: Agreed! I can't get that image of her bathed in a thousand lights at the end of 'Stormy Weather' out ... - DistantDrumming 05:45 pm EST 01/16/14

"Bathed in a thousand lights"? The lights are where I am wondering. Thanks!


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I'll let NBC New York's Robert Kahn explain...

Posted by: DistantDrumming 06:44 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: What's that mean? Spoiler request. - Guillaume 06:12 pm EST 01/16/14

... he does a much better job describing it than I do. And it's no spoiler. It's not exactly a coup de theatre -- just a beautiful synthesis of song, performer/musicians and designers.

"Lighting designer Howell Binkley (“How to Succeed…,” “In the Heights”) is charged with the unenviable task of setting more than two-dozen distinct moods, and rises to the occasion throughout, particularly during “Stormy Weather,” which sees Barrino bathed in an almost religious glow from 10 individual spots."
- From Robert Kahn's review of After Midnight

Link NBC New York's full review of After Midnight

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