Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
#1Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 6:40amWhat are the possibilities of them recording the upcoming revival? With Grammer's name attached this time around it might be easier to get a label to take the project...
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#2Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 9:10am
Judging only by the few clips I have seen from the London production and the promos with Grammer, I would have preferred for the 2005 revival to have been recorded. It was just a louder and more polished sound. Not that and less polished, smaller sound isn't suitable, but the OBC recording is low quality and difficult to hear those great orchestrations. The last revival would have been brought today's great sound quality to it.
But what's in the past is in the past and I would LOVE for this upcoming revival to have a recording!!!!
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#2Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 9:17amDo we really need Doug Hodge croaking out I Am What I Am on disc? By all accounts (even from those who liked it) this is not a "well-sung" production.
#3Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 10:12amI think Doug hodge sang the part BEAUTIFULLY and nailed the characterisation with it, I would of prefered the previous revival to have a recording as it had a full orchestra, but this would be AMAZING!
#4Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 10:57amI would have preferred the London revival cast to have been recorded. Too bad it didn't happen.
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#5Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 1:36pm
I hope they record it too, but I must say after revisiting the OBCR last week I think it still sounds great.
The original orchestrations are wonderful.
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Updated On: 3/12/10 at 01:36 PM
#6Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 3:52pmI've heard that, taz, but on my computer, it's the only album that plays in a lower volume and just sounds...old. I did burn it from a library copy, so perhaps it was the quality of the used CD itself?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
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#7Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 4:02pmCapn, my copy plays quietly, too. Not sure why, but it must have something to do with the way it was recorded. If you use iTunes, you can go into the settings for those tracks and adjust the playback volume. Or you can use the Sound Check option, which automatically adjusts each song so that they all play at the same volume.
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#8Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 7:42pmtbh, I LOVE this production but I would rather hav the 2003? 2005? revival record cuz I just ADORE Gavin Creel's Jean Michel, his 'Anne On My Arms'... I melt.
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#9Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 7:53pmBoth La Cage and Into the Woods play VERY quietly for me too...
#10Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/12/10 at 11:56pm
LA CAGE was one of the very first OCR's to be issued on CD, and it was heavily compressed. If Sony (who now own RCA's catalog) would go back and remix and remaster the original recording I suspect it would dazzle your ears. It was, I believe, RCA's first all-dgital cast album.
I find the levels VERY low not on on LA CAGE but all the others from the late 1980s and into the 1990s. TITANIC (which was only on CD - no Lp) is a VERY quiet recording. Not sure why.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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#11Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/13/10 at 1:16am
"TITANIC (which was only on CD - no Lp) is a VERY quiet recording. Not sure why."
YES. This has always annoyed me to no end. When it comes on my shuffle, I turn the volume up, which causes the next song to blow out my ears.
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#12Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/13/10 at 2:59am
Do you have the Into the Woods remaster? I don't notice the problem as I did with the original CD issue.
I'm a big Gavin Creel fan and I don't even remember anything from his performance except his long hair.
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#13Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/13/10 at 11:01amI recall reading that PS Classics/Nonesuch is planning to record it, but I can't find where I read it- so take that with many grains of salt.
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#14Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/13/10 at 11:07am
You cannot beat the OBCR. It had a very lush sound & the cast cannot be beat.
It is nice to hear the score played by a full orchestra & not the reduced sound of todays musical.
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#15Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/13/10 at 8:13pmThe Australian cast album (with Keith Michell and Jon Ewing) is an imperfect recording but it does have a very "theatre" sound unlike so many recent show recordings. Worth a listen if you can source it.
#16Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/15/10 at 4:46am
Kad:
Someone on the West End mentioned PS Classic/Nonesuch might be doing it when they were talking about the upcoming ALNM recording. Personally, I don't really see La Cage being a match for what has been released by PS/Nonesuch thus far, but with the way that recordings are these days, who knows.
Though, I can see if a different record label releases La Cage, maybe this will get Sony/Whoever to finally remaster the original Broadway cast album to cash in/compete with it?
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#17Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 3/15/10 at 7:26amChoitoy, if PS classics released the OBCR of Xanadu, I really don't see why they won't do a La Cage recording (which IS a classic, after all)
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#18Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 4/23/10 at 7:49pm
Anyone heard anything?
Each time I click on here or Playbill.com, I cross my fingers and hope to see an announcement (I know it just opened, but one can hope, right?).
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#19Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 4/24/10 at 12:35amI hope so. I very much prefer the sensitivity in Doug Hodge's voice to George Hearn's bombastic baritone. Also I think the score is very tuneful and would love to hear it in a fresher recording.
#21Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 5/25/10 at 2:12amIn that interview with Jerry Herman, he said no one has offered to record it yet.
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#22Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 5/25/10 at 2:57amUgh! Sony (preferably, but any other company will do) really needs to get on this. The show seems to be doing pretty well, and if it wins best revival (and tour later), they really do need to do a recording.
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
#23Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 5/25/10 at 3:11amSony already has the OBCR. I doubt they'd want another competing album.
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#24Are we going to finally get a new LA CAGE cast recording?
Posted: 5/25/10 at 3:13amYeah, it seems more like a PS Classics project. But I guess they aren't interested in recording it.
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