| What are your favorite pieces of music left off cast recordings? | |
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| Posted by: GabbyGerard 02:08 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| I’m speaking of musicals that GOT recorded and are commercially available (so, “James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ doesn’t count!), but omitted material you love. So much material from the original Broadway production of Side Show didn’t make it on to the cast recording, and I love a lot of it. Some of it was recorded with the revival cast in slightly revised formats—for example, the interview before “Who Will Love Me As I Am?”—but I long for an official recording of Emily Skinner, Alice Ripley, Jeff McCarthy, and Hugh Panaro singing that music. I miss McCarthy’s “You Deserve a Better Life.” Without “Crazy, Deaf, and Blind,” the album doesn’t really convey how genuinely frightening Ken Jennings was. I also miss the recit before “Like Everyone Else” that would morph into “All in the Mind” in the revival. But what I most long for is the full version of “We Share Everything.” With the cut verses (“Ain’t it amazin’/even our phrasin’/sounds like it’s coming from one!/Nobody’s sweatin’/when we’re duetin’/‘cause we’re having such fun!”), we not only lose some of Russell’s wittiest and most charming lyrics, but a veritable MASTER CLASS in pastiche performance styles from Skinner and Ripley. In the section preceding “C’mon boys, build a barge...”, we also got some of the most thrilling belting from the ladies—in a musical chock full of thrilling belting—when they sang their “Ay, ay, ay, ays!” (Devotees of the original production will know what I’m talking about!) And speaking of Henry Krieger musicals, the Original Cast Recording of Dreamgirls suffered a similar fate...at least until its 2006 (?) reissue. I’m very happy that we now have It’s All Over, but I sure do still wish we had Heavy. What are your missing favorites? |
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