#2re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:29pm
'Hairspray' also. The new songs rocked my world, and I did like Nikki better.
And 'Camelot'. It's lacking a lot of the songs, and the cast aren't really singers, but it breaks my heart every time. ;_;
And 'West Side Story'. I get confused and offended if I hear WSS and it's not the movie (singing XD) cast.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#2re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:31pmOverall, I liked the sound of the Chicago soundtrack better than the cast recording; however I enjoyed some songs from the cast recording better such as "We Both Reached for the Gun."
Mekroth
Broadway Star Joined: 2/23/08
#4re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:33pm
I third "Hairspray".
And I also like "Fiddler on the Roof"'s soundtrack better than any cast recording.
Updated On: 7/28/08 at 08:33 PM
#5re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:37pmI have both the revival and the film recordings of Chicago and I find myself reaching for the film version over the revival.
#6re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:48pm
Definitely Hairspray
The Sound of Music (Love Mary Martin, but Julie Andrews IS Maria Von Trap IMO)
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#7re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:51pmAbsolutely West Side Story and The Sound of Music.
#8re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:52pmRENT: it rocks harder than the OBC.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#9re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:56pmAside from one or two songs, there is no entire soundtrack that I think does a better job than the OBC.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#10re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:58pm
Sound of Music
Mary Poppins I know some of the songs are different, but I'll always prefer the movie soundtrack.
#11re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 8:59pmWith the dreadful OLC recording of Mamma Mia!, the films soundtrack is a breath of fresh air. "Does Your Mother Know" is now on par with what you see on stage.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#12re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:01pm
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Oklahoma!
Carousel
Flower Drum Song
Mary Poppins
South Pacific
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#13re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:08pmOh good, I'm not the only one who enjoys the WSS soundtrack more than the cast recording!
brochatkid
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/08
#14re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:22pmJesus Christ Superstar. Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson rock!
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#15re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:23pmOh, yeah, JCS is another.
#16re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:29pmAll of the Disney soundtracks that have become musicals.
#17re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:34pmSame for me with WSS and Chicago. And honestly, I don't think I have ever heard the OBC of Sound of Music. I grew up my whole life listening to the soundtrack and I can't imagine hearing it any different!
#18re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:40pm
Hairspray, Rent and Chicago I find are much stronger in the film versions.
As much as its understandable, it gets irritating when you go back to listening to the cast recordings and they appear to plod along at a snails pace in comparison to the film soundtrack.
#19re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:55pmChicago
#20re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 10:09pm
Paint Your Wagon
Damn Yankees (ONLY because it's in stereo)
#21re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 10:12pmLittle Shop of Horrors, i love the soundtrack.
#22re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 10:45pmWow, I thought I was going to be alone and killed for mentioning Hairspray. The pros to the OBC: Kerry Butler and Laura Bell Bundy definitely were better than Amanda Bynes and Brittany Snow. However, I really feel that Nikki Blonsky sings better than Marissa Janet Winokur. I think I liked James Marsden better too. The music was also just a little more fun sounding in the movie.
#23re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:18pmMamma Mia. Because the on the OLC, Sophie is SOOO whiny. It makes me cringe. And her accent seems really fake to me.
robinandmarty
Swing Joined: 7/27/08
#24re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:20pmMarieanne2, I 100% agree with everything you said! Hairspray...no contest!
#25re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:28pm
I third the West Side Story Soundtrack. Not only is it better than the original cast but it is superior to all subsequent recordings of West Side Story, including Leonard Bernstein’s own. Also the 1962 soundtrack of Gypsy has the biggest orchestra and best orchestrations of any recording of this score. And the soundtrack of the film version of Oliver is played and sung with a level of brilliance that far outclasses any stage recording.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, Flower Drum Song, The King and I and especially Carousel are gigantically superior to the original cast versions. No Broadway album can compete with the 65 piece orchestras and expanded orchestrations and choral arrangements used in these films.
In a class by itself is the 1958 soundtrack to South Pacific. It is simply the greatest recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s score ever. Sure, most of the singing was by voice doubles, but on a recording who cares, especially when the singing is this magnificent. Also the singers were hand picked by Rodgers and Hammerstein themselves. Mitzi Gaynor, who did do her own singing, has the perfect voice for Nellie Forbush and Ken Darby’s choral arrangements and Robert Russell Bennett’s expanded orchestrations blow away all other recordings by a mile, including the new 2008 Broadway revival. The lush atmospheric orchestrations, played by the 100 piece 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra, augmented by many exotic instruments conducted by 9 time Academy Award winner Alfred Newman, leave every other recording of South Pacific in the dust. Also Giorgio Tozzi, who sings Emile de Becque and Bill Lee, who sings LT. Cable on the soundtrack, are far better and more expressive singers than Paulo Szot and Matthew Morrison on the new 2008 revival recording. Lee’s performances of Younger than Springtime & Carefully Taught are the best vocals ever of these songs. Richard Rodgers himself said, at the time of the film’s release, that the 1958 soundtrack was the most perfect recording of South Pacific ever. I agree.
Other soundtracks that I think are better than the Broadway originals are: Finian's Rainbow, Call Me Madam. The Pajama Game, Bells are Ringing, L'il Abner and Fiddler On the Roof.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#26re: Movie soundtracks you liked better than cast recordings
Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:30pm
basically what everyone else has said before me.
WSS - God bless Marni Nixon.
The Sound of Music - how could you EVER beat Julie Andrews?
all Disney. ever.
there are some aspects of the Hairspray soundtrack (Nikki Blonsky, James Marsden) that I like, but I'm partial to the OBC.
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