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Follies Cast Album is a Go!
jdtp12
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/10
#25Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 3:10pmNow if we could just get a filming of the show, it would be all the better!
#26Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 3:16pm
"Now if we could just get a filming of the show, it would be all the better!"
When I'm worried and I can't sleep
I count my blessings instead of sheep
And I fall asleep counting my blessings
When my bankroll is getting small
I think of when I had none at all
And I fall asleep counting my blessings
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#27Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 3:30pm
Yep, I stopped posting on ATC years ago, and I was a long time poster. This is a great example of why I stopped posting. Bitter bitter bitter.
Me, I am THRILLED about this great news. I love this production, I love the cast...I love the show, period. So, so happy about this.
"I chose and my world was shaken--so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on"
#28Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 6:30pm
Tommy Krasker has apparently confirmed that the cast recording will indeed happen to playbill:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/153855-The-Sun-Comes-Up-Follies-Will-Get-a-2011-Cast-Album
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#30Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 12:52amWhen Danny Burstein said it'd be the "full score", I hope he really meant it. I'd assume they'd need to do something to make it a full two discs, so dialogue seems like a reasonable possibility .
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#31Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 1:16amWhy would anyone be against this recording? If they didn't like the production, fine. They're obviously under no obligation to purchase the recording or even listen to it! All That Chat, and BroadwayWorld to a lesser extent, makes me realize that I'm not as picky and bitchy as I often think I am. Geez!
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#32Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 1:24am
Any new Broadway cast recording is good news. They're so expensive to record these days and they rarely return their investment. I understand that all the unions want to make sure their members are properly compensated, but I really wish something could be done to lower the costs and make it more economically feasible for more shows to record and make a profit. I'm glad PS Classics is sparing no expense and giving Follies the recording it deserves.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#33Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 1:42am
Alan Menken is Kvelling (sp)...
Updated On: 8/22/11 at 01:42 AM
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#34Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 12:24pmExcited to have the full score, though it certainly isn't that well-sung of a production. Saw it last Thursday and couldn't understand how anyone thought Bernadette could sing it in the first place. 'Too Many Mornings' was rough. Very rough.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#35Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 1:54pm
"PS Classics will record the new Broadway cast album of the Kennedy Center's acclaimed revival of FOLLIES on October 3 & 4, 2011 for a late November 2011 release."
At least we don't have to wait TOO long...
#36Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 1:55pm
The album is available to preorder on PS Classics site!
Album Release Date: November 29, 2011
They're really going to release it quickly. PS Classics normally takes quit a while to release their albums.
Updated On: 8/22/11 at 01:55 PM
#37Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 1:57pmThey probably want to get it in the theatre while the show is still running.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#38Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 2:03pmYup, that would make sense. It's good news for us impatient fans.
#39Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 2:07pm
I'm circling the date on my calendar as we speak. 
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#40Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 2:16pm
Another "Yay!" from me... 
I think I read here that Bernadette has been having allergy and voice problems - I hope she will be in fine voice by October. I have every faith she will deliver a flawless performace and preserve her portrayal at its very best.
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#41Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 3:22pm
Of course I'm also excited! What musical theater fan wouldn't be?
....but the world goes 'round
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#42Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 4:06pmJay-I saw Bernadette the other night and aside from transition to head voice from chest voice she sounded very good. And her performance is brutally honest and completely vulnerable and real.
#43Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 5:39pmRecording over two days - nice!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#44Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 6:38pm
They're totally missing my birthday by over a month with that release date, but I'll settle with an early Christmas present.
whitesnow
Swing Joined: 12/20/09
#45Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 7:27pm
wonder what label it'll be on. I'm guessing PS Classics, since they're the go-to for Sondheim recordings.
If that is the case, and Goldman's widow allowing, we'll undoubtedly get a very complete recording with dialogue.
Read more: https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1035876&dt=44&boardid=1#ixzz1VnroPnnB
bk
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/03
#47Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 7:38pm
"I'm glad PS Classics is sparing no expense and giving Follies the recording it deserves."
PS Classics has nothing to do with the expense. The expense is being borne by the producers - thank them for sparing no expense.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#48Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 7:49pm
NOVEMBER?????? Oy, I was hoping they'd be in the studio in a few weeks from now !
Waaaaaah. I am not a patient person.
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#49Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/22/11 at 7:50pmThe release date is November, meaning they will probably be going into the studio within the next few weeks.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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