Cast Recordings That Took You Years to Fall in Love WIth
Cast Recordings That Took You Years to Fall in Love WIth
#0Cast Recordings That Took You Years to Fall in Love WIth
Posted: 1/30/06 at 2:03pm
What recordings did you dislike at first purchase but love years later?
For me: Mystery of Edwin Drood. Took me years to full appreciate this brilliant score. Now, I can't get enough of it.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 2:53pmHairspray
<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 2:54pmIt is taking me alot to love The Light In Th Piazza. i really only LOVE the music in the context of the show.
kyguy78
Broadway Star Joined: 1/12/06
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 2:57pm
It took me a long time to get into Little Shop of Horrors. I still think some of the songs are clunkers, but overall it has grown on me.
I also felt the same way at first with Wicked.
MarkCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 2:58pmMost Sondheim recordings take some time to grow on me. Sweeney, Sunday, and Assassins are good examples.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:12pm
A Little Night Music ..which is now quite possibly my fav Sondheim recording
and Hello Again...took awhile, thought Marie Christine was much easier to get into.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:14pmMamma Mia. I saw it a few months ago and didn't really get into the music, but my little sister did. It's been a few months, but i'm starting to come around to liking it.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:16pmYOu hadn't heard any Abba music before Mamma Mia?
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:16pmWicked took my about a month....i HATED it at first....Then, well just look at my name!
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:17pmFloyd Collins took me a while to finally appreciate. I got it right after it was released originally..but didn't like it at first and I put it away. After I purchased and loved Guettel's Myths and Hymns CD about a year later, I pulled back out my Floyd Collins CD and then bgean to appreciate the music.
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cserannie
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:19pm
Wild Party - off bway.
I couln't stand Julia Murney's voice. Can you believe that, 'cause frankly I can't.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:21pmI just bought Pacific Overtures. I've owned the original LP for years but have never given it a chance. Last week I decided to buy the most recent recording and give it a try.
Dramatic_Irony
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/26/05
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:22pm
Well, more like a month, but Hair.
Also Light in the Piazza.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:23pmI love Pacific Overtures Chita, but I hate the revival recording. The reduced orchestrations and some blad performances don't do justice to the great score.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:25pm
Of all shows, Sweeney Todd. Several years ago when the concert version was aired on tv, I watched only a little bit of it before I shut the tv off. "This is CRAZY!" I said. And quite a few years laters, I really got into it.
I guess Assassins too. My friend lent me the cd, and I was like "how on earth could anyone like this musical? it's BORING!" Then I made myself go see the "revival" thinking I was going to be bored out of my mind. But it had a phenominal cast, and it was Studio 54, and I needed to braoden my horizens etc. I absolutely fell in love with the show. It was so clever, yet so entertaining at the same time. Every moment and every song was gripping. I guess it was then that I finally started to "get" Sondheim.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 3:50pm
When Pigs Ply
Pacific Overtures
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 4:06pmPacific Overtures
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 5:04pm
I couln't stand Julia Murney's voice. Can you believe that, 'cause frankly I can't.
Kind of beside the point, but you are the only other person I have ever heard that didn't care for Julia's voice. It's just not my cup of tea.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 5:10pmSomeone gave me the OBC of Company five years ago. I took it out during the opening number. I found the CD again last month while I was packing to move and put it in. Now, I can't get enough of it. I've been singing City of Strangers in my head all afternoon.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 5:13pm
The Last Five Years
I guess I just didn't have the patience for it a few years back. Now I can't stop loving Jason Robert Brown.
MarkCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 5:36pm
I couln't stand Julia Murney's voice. Can you believe that, 'cause frankly I can't.
Kind of beside the point, but you are the only other person I have ever heard that didn't care for Julia's voice. It's just not my cup of tea.
It still bothers me a lot. It's just the rapid and odd vibrato.
tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 6:12pmI can't stand Julia's voice on The Wild Party either. I thought she was wonderful in Lennon, but her vibrato drives me nuts. Julia's vibrato really could turn back time. I'm curious to see what people will think of her as Elphaba. I really can't say I'd be excited to hear her sing "Defying Gravity."
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 6:18pm
I don't mean to pile on the Julia hate, but I'm not a fan of her voice either. To be fair, I've only heard her in the Chess benefit. Her vibrato drives me up a wall.
Anyway, I'd probably say the Chicago revival recording took me a while to like. I still wouldn't say that I love it, but I absolutely hated it for a long time.
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 6:20pm
Listen to anything long enough and you will learn to "love" it, even WOZZECK.
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Posted: 1/30/06 at 6:25pmRENT took me a while. i loved seasons of love since the first time i heard it. but my aunt had given me a tape of it so i popped it in one day and it was all over the place so i couldnt really get into it. then i sat through it a few times and now i love it.
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