THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Apr 7 2026, 10:41:08 PM
BroadwayBen said: "Why have they removed Kristin's photo from the streaming images? I've never seen what they're using before. Is it from Boston?"
Nope--Boston had the same image as Broadway and the pre-release for this album...
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BEACHES Previews
Apr 7 2026, 10:37:48 PM
Kad said: "The first iteration of the musical back in 2014 didn’t even have “Wind,” so clearly its inclusion now was an acknowledgment of reality.."
Out of curiousity, how many other examples can we think of, of shows based on movies with songs that become attached to them, that do NOT originally have that song in the musical, and then add them in later (and it feels almost inevitable.) Shrek and Zhivago come to mind immediately. &nbs
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Songs about men sung by women? Rop
Apr 1 2026, 01:22:43 AM
SkidRow82 said: "The song "A Man" from Weird Romance - super obscure, but it's exactly what you'relooking for."
Great minds (see my post earlier) ;)
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Gotta Dance! - American Dance Machine
Apr 1 2026, 12:44:53 AM
Very jealous of people getting to see this (just like with the old company, I wish more American Dance Machine things would be filmed for preservation.) I love I'm a Brass Band, though out of Sweet Charity Fosse numbers I probably would have picked the Frug or even Rhythm of Life instead--but I have to say the Tony performance of City Lights is a clip I've gone back to over and over (partly as a guilty pleasure) so it seems a great inclusion.
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ENCORES! THE WILD PARTY Review - 1 Minute Critic
Mar 31 2026, 08:01:42 AM
Kad said: "Unfortunately, Encores cast albums happen rarely. The question is: who would be generous enough pay for it? They're expensive to produce and basically guaranteed to lose money. The instances they do get produced tend to be for shows by artists with strong estates with a vested historical interest in preserving the score."
For a while there they seemed to have a deal with DRG to record them--that's how we got the handful of excellent Rodgers and Har
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Vampire Musical Memories - Anyone Else See Dracula, Lestat & Dance Of the Vampires?
Mar 31 2026, 07:59:32 AM
I saw Dance of the Vampires in revival in Austria so can't speak for the Broadway version, but the stagecraft/production values of those VBW produced Vienna musicals is simply outstanding (I also saw Elisabeth and the Stephen Schwartz musical Schikanader and really liked all of them.)
Saw the Lestat previews in San Francisco. I went with a friend who had never seen the Interview movie or read the books and he was *utterly* lost the entire time. I... kinda liked it?&
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Songs about men sung by women? Rop
Mar 31 2026, 07:51:05 AM
For some reason the song that first came to mind is the duet A Man from the Alan Menken/David Spencer off-Broadway show, Weird Romance. A bit obscure but fits what you want perfectly.
There are more obvious choices like I Know Him So Well, Every Day A Little Death...
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Cameron Mackintosh Says He's Done With Broadway‚ Is He Right?
Mar 28 2026, 04:02:03 PM
Cam Mac hasn't produced an original musical in over a decade now. I know he was close friends with Sondheim, but I wonder if they ever disagreed with that...
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Isherwood: ‘Going Bacharach’ Review: A Revue Done Right Off-Broadway
Feb 9 2026, 09:19:54 PM
I'm a massive Bacharach fan (I probably have even more Bacharach recordings than Sondheim and could go on and on about his underrated work like his 1970s albums Futures and Woman.) And from all I can read and see this revue would drive me a bit crazy--what with all the vocal (and piano) ornamentation to his music, something he hated, etc. John Pagano did tour with Bacharach for ages, but I don't think he's particularly good with a lyric, and when I saw him his singing
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Isherwood: When the American Theater Found Its Own Way, From Eugene O’Neill to Lin-Manuel Miranda
Feb 9 2026, 09:13:30 PM
Kad said: "This is a very cursory look at American theatre with no real thesis behind it or real insight into it. It gives short shrift to anybody who wasn't O'Neill, Rogers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, or Miranda and makes no mention of the various artistic movements or companies who built up the American theatre and, as sinister teashop implies, divorces it from a global artistic context."
Exactly. I was surprised Jesse Green didn't write it.
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HIGH SPIRITS at Encores!
Feb 6 2026, 06:29:59 PM
MezzA101 said: "‘High Spirits’ Review: A Ghostly Delight From Encores!
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/theater/high-spirits-review-a-ghostly-delight-from-encores.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KFA.bPYK.rpapaLseWofV&smid=nytcore-android-share"
I know headlines often suck, but this unreasonably bugs me: "A revival of a 1964 musical, which puts a supernatural spin on a Noël Coward play,"
Err... the Coward play *always* had a supernatural spin to it. They probably wanted to say "a musical spin" but had already used the word musical... I am glad they point out the new ending the musical has (which I actually prefer to the play's.)
As for people suggesting this might have a chance at a Broadway revival? Ha! :P
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HIGH SPIRITS at Encores!
Feb 5 2026, 10:55:22 PM
ER765 said: "
Bizarrely nondescript review in The Wrap, which I guess is mixed to positive?"
So in other words a very typical Robert Hofler review.
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Question about 1971 Tony Awards
Feb 5 2026, 10:01:25 PM
This always fascinated me and made me try to imagine what years there might have been a divide between best music and best lyric winners in those categories...
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Flower Drum Song Ballet based on original novel by CY Lee
Feb 3 2026, 05:48:35 PM
As stated, the stage musical has a different "dream ballet" which I don't think has ever been properly recorded--I wish it would be. (The movie has some good things, but I tend to agree with those that feel it actually accentuated Asian stereotypes that weren't in the stage show, and some of the choreography is included in this for me.)
There also was an extended, sorta fantasy "dance break" for Sunday on stage, most of which you can see in the great Ed Sullivan extended FDS performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYQaNHl2K8
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Upcoming Japanese production of GYPSY renamed as ROSE due to sensitivity regarding the original title
Feb 3 2026, 05:45:08 PM
I don't really know what to think of the title change, but as it's a foreign language production it doesn't particularly bother me one way or the other.
However, to those who say that this is obviously done to test the title for the Western market because Japanese productions haven't been all that racially sensitive in the past (the black face example) I have to point out that relatively very recently there HAS been a push to be more sensitive to this especially in
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London Loved It/New York Hated It
Dec 31 2025, 02:12:44 AM
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "The Trevor Nunn-helmed revival of Oklahoma!.
When it was in London, it received a ton of acclaim. Although when it eventually came to Broadway, it wasn't as well received."
Yeah, I always wondered why this was such a non event. I had seen Patrick Wilson in the tour of Carousel, I guess almost five years before he played Curly on Broadway--and he was terrific.
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Derek Klena Joins Savannah Bananas
Dec 31 2025, 02:07:19 AM
And he's a good fit. But does this mean he can't be on stage during their season? (do they even have a season?)
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London Loved It/New York Hated It
Dec 30 2025, 09:38:28 PM
Chess of course is an obvious example--but not only was the Broadway version a different production, it was a vastly different text as well. Does that make a difference? (I suppose that's true of Taboo as well.)
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London Loved It/New York Hated It
Dec 30 2025, 05:38:26 PM
everythingtaboo said: "
There was a period of transfers that were well-received in London, but underwhelmed critically or commercially here. I recall Jumpers andEnron, to musicals like The Woman in White,American PsychoandTaboo."
Woman in White was a baffling transfer as it was always struggling in London (and got very mixed reviews) ultimately running a year and a half (and I kinda have a soft spot for the
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London Loved It/New York Hated It
Dec 30 2025, 05:33:46 PM
TotallyEffed said: "I can’t be the only one who thinks Kinky Boots is trash."
I'm with Kad. I find it fine--it's basically a solidly constructed show, staged with typical Jerry Mitchell slickness but it's lacking for me any real *moments* (moments of anything really) if that makes sense. Everything is easy to predict and kinda perfunctory.
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