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| And furthermore… | |
| Last Edit: ShowGoer 04:08 pm EDT 07/27/22 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 04:07 pm EDT 07/27/22 | |
| In reply to: Recent Cast albums on CD - Mrwedmatinee 10:33 am EDT 07/27/22 | |
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| Aside from Mr Saturday Night, Mrs Doubtfire, and A Strange Loop, you also left off the Broadway album of Six (recorded live I believe) as well as the off-Broadway albums of The Visitor and Trevor… all have had digital-only releases with no sign of a physical release in sight. With Paradise Square and The Music Man having been recorded but with no release information yet (and with Company not getting a new album due to contractual issues, and Funny Girl not being recorded - at least not yet - for obvious reasons), I believe MJ, Caroline or Change, Girl from the North Country and Flying Over Sunset are the only four musicals from this fairly packed season to have gotten an actual physical album that one can hold in one’s hands. Considering that nearly every movie that goes to iTunes or Netflix, and every new rock or pop album that goes to Spotify or Apple Music, still comes out in various hard-copy forms (compact disc, vinyl, DVDs, Blu-rays, 4K discs, etc.) it’s a dispiriting trend for aficionados and collectors of the original cast album. |
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| Last Edit: Chromolume 07:43 pm EDT 07/27/22 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:43 pm EDT 07/27/22 | |
| In reply to: And furthermore… - ShowGoer 04:07 pm EDT 07/27/22 | |
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| and Funny Girl not being recorded - at least not yet - for obvious reasons Has this been discussed at all, though? I would wonder if recording the album (with Lea) would be a huge mistake. |
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| re: And furthermore… | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 09:37 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And furthermore… - Chromolume 07:43 pm EDT 07/27/22 | |
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| I don’t think it would be a mistake at all, provided a) she’s good in the role and b) continues to sell as she’s been doing over the last few weeks. It may be that there’s language in the original contracts that would preclude it or make it even more cost-prohibitive (e.g. could people like Feldstein and Lynch have a clause stating that if an album is made they either have to be on it, or else get paid for the recording in any case as if they actually were?). Then too it’s possible, since Michele recorded a few of the songs for the various Glee soundtracks over the years, that some may view a new album even with her as less than essential. That said, if she’s well-received, and the production has anything close to the turnaround they’re obviously hoping for, I could see them trying to do it, as a way both of legitimizing the revival in the first place, and preserving for posterity the choice they made. It would obviously be “the new Broadway cast recording” as opposed to “the 2022 ‘Original Cast’ Recording. I’m trying to think… when new albums or even EPs have been issued, from Brooke Shields in Grease to Vanessa Williams in Spider Woman to Nick Jonas in How to Succeed to Laura Benanti in My Fair Lady, there was always a recording with the entire original cast that had already been released. Has there ever been an album that ONLY preserved a replacement and not the original lead? (The closest things that leap to mind are Julia Migenes stepping in for Teresa Stratas on the album of Rags, supposedly because Stratas didn’t think that particular record label prestigious enough, and in far more tragic circumstances, Brent Barrett recording Grand Hotel after so much time had passed negotiating the Byzantine contractual issues that Carroll had passed away while trying to record the album.) |
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| don't forget the Brooke Shields new cast recording of Wonderful Town revival... | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:53 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And furthermore… - ShowGoer 09:37 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
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| I think it was a big mistake to spend money on it. Not because she was bad, she was good in the role... but I can't imagine it sold much at all, and most people interested in having a cast album of this revival would have gotten (and likely preferred) the Donna Murphy OBRC. I'm assuming they just did the Brooke tracks are re-released them over what was already recorded, but I'm not sure. But what's worse is that Spotify doesn't have the Donna album, just the Brooke. (and the OBC, and the London recording, and the TV soundtrack...) |
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| BLOOD BROTHERS | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:18 am EDT 07/29/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And furthermore… - ShowGoer 09:37 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
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| Blood Brothers received a cast recording with replacements Petula Clark and the Cassidy brothers. The leads from the original Broadway cast had previously made a London cast recording so there was never a separate Broadway recording. | |
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| Posted by: Chromolume 10:48 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And furthermore… - ShowGoer 09:37 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
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| There's also the odd case of the Call Me Madam cast recording(s). | |
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| PAL JOEY | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:49 am EDT 07/29/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And furthermore… - Chromolume 10:48 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
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| Pal Joey received a studio cast recording with Vivienne Segal and Harold Lang. When Segal and Lang were cast in the '52 revival, another cast recording was made with Helen Gallagher and Elaine Stritch. | |
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| Last Edit: PlayWiz 12:05 am EDT 08/01/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:58 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| In reply to: PAL JOEY - BroadwayTonyJ 09:49 am EDT 07/29/22 | |
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| On the Lang-Segal "Pal Joey", Lang for some reason doesn't sing "Do It the Hard Way". It is sung and credited to Kenneth Remo as Joey for the song, who otherwise sings Ludlow Lowell on the recording. Perhaps Lang wasn't feeling well that day that he didn't record it? The song "Zip" has 3 verses; both Elaine Stritch and Jo Hurt sing the same first verse, but each only does one of the remaining verses (a different one on each recording). I own an old copy of the Lang-Segal recording, and listened just recently to the Helen Gallagher tracks on YouTube of the other recording for the first time. She sounds gloriously brassy -- one can almost hear her winning her first Tony with such a vibrant vocal performance. T hat Lang-Segal revival, with Bob Fosse understudying Lang, ran over 500 performance starting in 1950 and held the record for many years of longest Broadway revival. It was certainly more popular with audiences than the original production, who probably just weren't ready for its sophisticated but also kind of tawdry characters. |
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| re: And furthermore… | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:18 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And furthermore… - Chromolume 10:48 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
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| Also, restricting myself to principal roles, Song of Norway, Up in Central Park and Oh, Captain! | |
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| re: And furthermore… | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 03:48 am EDT 07/29/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And furthermore… - AlanScott 11:18 pm EDT 07/28/22 | |
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| Well, if we’re going back that far, Rex Everhart stepping in for Howard da Silva while he recovered from his heart attack during the original album of 1776! But those are all good ones. I was thinking more along the lines of clear starring roles - e.g., if there was a case I wasn’t aware of where, say, a Madeline Kahn hadn’t been recorded and the album was instead eventually issued with a Judy Kaye…. For example, his performance is so indelible due to the filmed documentary that it’s hard to believe Dean Jones’s run in Company was so brief - barely 6 weeks including previews - that by the time the album was actually released, no one picking up the record would’ve ever had a chance to see him actually play the part. So wondering if there was a case like that I was forgetting, where (in this hypothetical example) a Larry Kert had actually been on the ‘original cast’ CD instead of a Dean Jones. But then I realize I weakened my own question by bringing in an ensemble show like Grand Hotel. |
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