| re: Assassins CSC cast recording | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 07:30 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:46 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Assassins CSC cast recording - Chromolume 06:36 pm EST 12/28/21 | |
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| I'm happy to have any recording of a score I love, and to hear the performances of a cast I won't get to see live. That being said, nothing I've heard about this production makes me think we "need" a recording of it. Unlike, say, CSC's Passion which at least had an exciting vocalist playing the challenging lead role (Kuhn as Fosca) -- though of course I was surprised that got an album since we have 2 albums of the score already (and if they were going to record it again I'd have assumed it would have been the staged concert filmed for PBS starring the famous Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald and Michael Cerveris -- though at least Kuhn got more than 2 weeks of rehearsal time for her production). Assassins isn't a vocal-show-off score, and this production is not known for giving the score the orchestration is "needed"... we already have two sensational cast albums of this show. So while I hope they record it, I would not be at all surprised if they don't. (I'm a bit surprised they didn't record the CSC Pacific Overtures simply because so many changes were made, but frankly I'm VERY glad they didn't as I found the changes terrible and poorly thought-out and the entire production was something I'd love to never see repeated... a cast album is a fast way to make it a version of the show people want to produce. But Pacific Overtures already has *three* cast recordings, including the definitive and gorgeous original. If there was to be a 4th I'd have wanted the Japanese language production that came here, so we could hear it in Japanese ... it was the basis for the Roundabout revival, which was recorded in English with the bway revival cast obviously). |
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