When I was listening to RAGTIME a while back, it was pointed out to me that during the opening number, while Emma is giving her speech, someone in the ensemble sings an extra "LA" the second time they do the LAs. I never picked up on it, but now I always hear it! Does anyone else know of cast recording mistakes??
If anyone has the rare cast recording of Annie Warbucks (Angel Records) the sequel to Annie little Kathryn Zaremba messes up a line near the end of the recording. It is during her speel to Sandy about the debacle at the wedding. I wonder why they never fixed that or the fact that Sandy is "barked" by Martin Charnin and not Cindy Lou...that is the albums BIGGEST mistake.
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE (OBC) Angela Lansbury jumps in early during a bandbreak in "I've Got You To Lean On"
HIGH SPIRITS (OBC) Beatrice Lillie starts to sing a wrong lyric in "Something is Coming To Tea"
HOUSE OF FLOWERS (OBC) Although not exactly a mistake, composer Harold Arlen sings one of the final notes for the ailing Diahann Carroll in "I Never Has Seen Snow"
Toward the end of Mandy Patinkin's album "Experiment" when he pauses you can hear a chair squeek.
There is also a mistake made by Danielle Ferland, but my brain is garbled and I can't remember which it was. I believe she comes in early in either "Sunday in the Park" or "Into The Woods". If I get time, I'll give a listen and confirm which show. (My brain is so garbled, I can't remember whether it's the cd or the video version. Hoo boy!!)
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Broadway cast recordings are made so quickly and for usually such a tiny budget, that mistakes usually go uncorrected. Still, some recordings are a little more hapless than others.
There are orchestra flubs all throughout The Producers cast recording, but particularly in the "Overture," "If You Got It, Flaunt It," and the "Prisoners of Love" finale.
Anyone Can Whistle also has a back-up boy add one extra "doo" during "Me And My Town".
A Dogpatch wife makes a wrong entrance in "Put 'em Back" from Li'l Abner.
There is a big brass section error in "A Beat Behind" from The Goodbye Girl.
Although I could be wrong, on the original off-Broadway ASSASSINS cast recording, there are certain parts were Terrence Mann (who played Czolgosz) definitely seems not to be singing, for it sounds like a completely different voice. Mann has a very distinctive quality to his voice, and he uses an accent for the role, but in certain places where Czolgosz has only one or two interjected sung or spoken lines, both the voice and the accent are different and don't sound like him at all, like someone was filling in for him. Anyone else notice this?
The most obvious one I can think of is on the OBC of Hello Dolly. In "Put on Your Sunday Cloths", on the line "Ermengard, stop snivilling, etc" Channing comes in early and is obviously cut off very quickly by the conductor, so all you get from her is a very quick, "Er..". Listen closely, your will hear it. Quite charming actually.
These aren't cast recordings, but two of the most noticeable (and funniest0 mistakes in the music industry are:
"I Saw Her Again Last Night" by the Mamas and the Papas. During the climatic moment, one of the guys came in with "I Saw Her" too early.
"Baby, You Got What It Takes" by Dinah Washington and Brooke Benton. Dinah and Brooke were supposed to record an album together with six duets. During the second verse of "Baby, you got what it takes", Brooke starts singing, and Dinah says "You're back in my spot again, honey!" He stops, so she sings her verse. "I Like you're spot", he says. When her verse is finished she says "Now it's you!" This is obviously upsetting to her. When the recording was finished a huge fight ensued. They recorded a second song "A Rockin' Good Way", and in the end they began ad-libbing. Dinah would say things like "Just stay outta my spot" - all tongue in cheek. He got angry, and even angrier that the producers kept it in the recording. They only recorded four songs together, as Dinah and Brooke never got along. The project was never completed, and the album only released four of the duets, while the rest of the numbers were solos.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
My favorite is during Lily's Eyes on The Secret Garden Recording. Mandy jumps in with an early "She" at the key change towards the end of the song. brilliant.
"There is nothing scary about life, if you are not attached to the results." - Conversations With God
On Idina Menzel's "Still I Can't Be Still" you can hear her clear her throat in the first few seconds of "Do You Think." Just proved to me that the clearing of the throat thing she does, was always around.
In Into The Woods (the original london cast recording), they sing "Into the woods to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying" If you listen, someone screws up which verse it is and says "wish" instead of "thing"
In Aida, when Amneris sings I Know The Truth and says "This should have been my time", there is a glitch on the word "my". Its not the singer's fault, rather something that happened technically during the recording.
You may know what you need but to get what you want better see that you keep what you have.
This is probably not a mistake, but the Tour of TMM had a lyric change from teh CD that i was accustomed to. I am pretty sure that it was "A life that's gotta be more than than a one light town where the light is always red." was something to do with "makin' babies till i die." Is this how the b-way show is (i saw a video clip somewhere and sutton sang the same lyric change). If you know whats up, PM me.
This is so minor it isn't even funny, but on Cooties on the Hairspray OCR, one time Laura Bell Bundy sings "cutie shot" instead of "cootie shot". Trust me, it's there.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
I know they change some lyrics on tours from recordings/original shows. The most obvious example I can think of is Rent:
"Smile for Ted Koppel..." is changed to "Smile for CNN..." and "You can take the girl outta Hicksville" is changed to "You can take the girl outta Jersey."
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
they don't change the rent lyrics to fit the actress's hometown. they change it for the tour because they assumed many tour audiences would not appreciate the humor of some of the more obscure references.
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Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her.
Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.
David Carroll sings "is there is no one in my life who will not..." Over the last note that Phillip Casnoff croaks -listen carefully and you'll hear it! Just horrible.
Yeah. Actually, they thought that many people might not think that Mark was talking about the New York town of Hicksville rather than a generic term for a place where hicks live.
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