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Oh, they sound sooo good. I don't care for the pause and then spoken (rather than sung) "my husband'" at the end of the "My Husband Makes Movies" clip, but otherwise that sampling of the show makes me ache that--I'm guessing--there will be no cast recording and there's no way I could get to D.C. to see it. Just sounds scrumptious. I love this score so much! Can't wait to read what people who get to see it have to say.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "joevitus said: "the only show Robert Russell Bennett wrote all the orchestrations for himself was The Sound of Music (which, incidentally, he considered the best score Rodgers ever wrote)."

Huh. I guess even geniuses have bad opinions sometimes ;)"

:)

MichelleCraig said: "
I don’t think we’ve had a truly great recording of CAROUSEL ever. "

I think both the OBC, despite being truncated for 78 discs, and the 1994 Broadway are indisputably great. 

CATSNYrevival said: "Why was it revised? It’s not even that different."

Don't know the answer. First I'm aware of the change is the film. Admittedly "hold your head up high" is easier on the voice, and sounds prettier, than "keep your chin up high" (plus you get a bit more alliteration), so it might have been about making it more comfortable to sing, but I don't know that was the reason.

Interesting they went with the revised "hold your head up high" rather than the original "keep your chin up high" for "You'll Never Walk Alone."

Please don't let it be awful like the Oklahoma! recording. What a waste! (Although the orchestra was lovely.)

How does anyone listen to/look at photographs of Mary Martin in the original production and read anything like "manic pixie dream girl"? How can one say her "edges have been sanded off" if that is the starting place? It's absurd. 

darquegk said: "I think TSOM lives and dies on its Maria, and so many Marias neglect the fact that Maria is a manic pixie dream girl. They play her straight, like an ingenue or a Disney princess.

Maria is strange, unpredictable and quirky. She is sexy in a bizarre way that is out of place in stiff-upper-lip aristocratic Austria. She's a role Julie Andrews played, she's not (the rather one-dimensional public image associated with) Julie Andrews herself."

SonofRobbieJ said: "joevitus said: "wiggum2 said: "I found my book and the Michael Bennet info

https://ibb.co/bzzLgFC"

Bennet says one thing, Sondheim another. Choose whomever you trust."

I need to go dig through my books to see what I (and you, joevitus) are thinking of. I wonder if it's in Everything Was Possible. I would (probably) trust Ted Chapin to be the ref on this."

You can find both views expressed in Sondheim and Co. Sondheim said he preferred Uptown/Downtown but Michael Bennet insisted on a new song for that spot to start fresh (and asked for a new song to replace "Bring on the Girls," leading to "Beautiful Girls," for the same reason). Bennet said he preferred Uptown/Downton and never knew why Sondheim replaced it, and that the song switch rendered the choreography meaningless. I guess Bennett repeated that comment elsewhere, or other biographers picked it up from Sondheim and Co. Sondheim, for his part, repeated the story on both the liner notes for the Paper Mill Playhouse cast recording of Follies and in his collection of lyrics Finishing the Hat that Bennett insisted on the song change to start fresh.

wiggum2 said: "I found my book and the Michael Bennet info

https://ibb.co/bzzLgFC"

Bennet says one thing, Sondheim another. Choose whomever you trust.

tomwsjr said: "Is anyone really surprised that Sarah isn’t up for the role? Some people are making her out to be a theatre icon, which she most definitely is not. I saw her in Phantom and yes her voice was lovely, but acting wise/stage presence, it had to be the worst performer I’ve ever seen on Broadway in all my 44 years of avid theatre going."

Thank you. I'm absolutely baffled. 

EDSOSLO858 said: "Track listing:

• ACT I
• 1. Overture / Soon As I Get Home (Preprise)
• 2. The Feeling We Once Had
• 3. The Tornado
• 4. He's the Wizard
• 5. Soon As I Get Home
• 6. You Can't Win
• 7. Slide Some Oil to Me
• 8. Mean Ole Lion
• 9. Ease On Down the Road
• 10. Be a Lion

Just irritates me that the revival cast recording is readily available, but the original cast recording doesn't have an iTunes release (and the CD is no longer in print). 

ljay889 said: "Audra played Mother Superior in The Sound of Music Live in 2013.

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Totally nitpicky (and with no relevance to the Gypsy discussion) but it's Mother Abbess not Mother Superior. 

Broadway Flash said: "FLOP"

This makes me think Maybe Happy Ending will be the next Chicago. 

EDSOSLO858 said: "Releases July 12! Music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls"

Great news, thank you!