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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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| re: PAL JOEY | |
| 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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