Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Follies Cast Album is a Go!
#1Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/20/11 at 11:44pm
Per Terri White's twitter page, Follies is getting a cast album!
Let the celebrations (and I'm sure some grumbling about inevitable cuts or casting quibbles) begin!
Terri White's Tweet
#2Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/20/11 at 11:49pm
I 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.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#3Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/20/11 at 11:58pmWould LOVE a recording with the Prologue/Overture dialogue!
#4Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 12:03am
WOW!
Danny Burstein
Got word today that we'll be doing a cast recording.
PS Classics is producing.
And they're doing it right. Two CD set. The entire score.
This production has such class.
#5Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 12:03amAccording to Danny Burstein's facebook status, it will be 2 discs with the entire score preserved.
#6Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 12:05amAs I was watching the show I was praying for this!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#8Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 12:17am
Bravo!
Peter's performance alone deserves this.
#9Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 12:17amYAY! This makes me soooo happy!
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#10Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 12:18amI'm positively beaming with excitement at the mere thought of hearing the overture on the cd with that orchestra...
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#11Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 12:20am
Yay! Finally, the Papermill recording won't be my only go to option for a complete recording. 
#12Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 1:17am
I second that, CATS.
I figured PS Classics would snatch it up, but it's great to have official word on it. So excited! This is 1 of Krasker's dream shows to record, so I imagine it will be spectacular!
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#13Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 1:28amI was also told today by a cast member that there will be a recording
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Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
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#14Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 1:32amAny chance a cut song or two will be a bonus track?
#15Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 1:36am
Any chance a cut song or two will be a bonus track?
I doubt it, as the Papermill recording documented/recorded many cut songs.
I just really hope Mrs. Goldman lets them use dialogue!!!
Of course, a few certain members on ATC are pissing all over this news. It never fails to amaze me how angry/bitter/grumpy some of those men are.
Updated On: 8/21/11 at 01:36 AM
#16Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 2:22amIndeed. I mean I do love the loveland-less OBC but how can this possibly be a bad thing?
"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
#17Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 4:03am
DIALOGUE PLEASE!!!!!!!!! So future generations will understand what the show is about.....
when I was a teen first addicted to Sondheim.... I had no idea what the fudge Follies was about... I read up on it, synopsis, reviews, recordings.... and was still pretty clueless.... DIALOGUE PLEASE!!!!
LOVE, the Night Music recording with Dialogue it makes everything so clear....
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#18Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 4:49am
I am overjoyed to read this! This weekend is turning out to be nothing but GOOD for me!
I love when that happens.
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#19Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 7:24am
I honestly, could care less about the dialogue -- I'm just thrilled that it's going to be a 2cd recording!
Guesses on when it can be released assuming they go into the recording studio before this month is over? I'm guessing October at the earliest? Thoughts?
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#21Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 10:15amNo
"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."
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#22Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 10:18am
There are three recordings.
There are no fewer than 7 recordings of Gypsy.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#23Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 10:27am
Follies has four recordings:
Original Broadway Cast
Original London Cast
Philharmonic Concert
Papermill Playhouse Cast (Complete Recording)
There was also an album of the jazz trio The Trotter Trio entitled "Follies... in Jazz", part of Bruce Kimmel's Sondheim in Jazz series.
#24Follies Cast Album is a Go!
Posted: 8/21/11 at 12:58pm
Count this angry/bitter/grumpy man (who rarely reads ATC let alone posts there) as delighted.
Someone put together an extended Overture/Prologue sequence on YouTube. Let's hope this recording keeps that entire sequence intact, as well as all of Loveland.
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