Do the 2 disk CDs currently sold in Barnes+Noble have that disgusting volume peak issue (Gypsy 200 or has this been fixed now?
"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
The IN THE HEIGHTS album is wonderful, but THE LITTLE MERMAID, really? Ugh.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Also note the presence of Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald in the Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording categories, for their "Mahagonny" recording in Los Angeles. I believe that if the recording wins, they would get Grammys as lead artists on the recording. I think that's how those specific categories work. Crazy, right?
And the Best Musical Tony winner wins the Grammy about half the time, actually.
But this is an interesting year for the Musical Show category, no?
the Mahagonny thing has me confused: is there a CD of it? or...does it count because it's on DVD? I'm very much not in the know with the Grammys.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
I have a feeling South Pacific will take it. It has received rave reviews from just about everyone, it's the first time the score has been recorded as a major studio album since the movie (which is terrible), and the use of the original orchestrations with the high quality sound of the modern technology is sure to tug at the heart strings of the grammy voters. I have a strong feeling SP takes this one. If not, it goes to In the Heights.
Is that how I should vote, bjh? I'm a voter.......and I think there are other posters who are voters as well.
We had a good thread going (lol to "Merrily We Roll Along") in the fall about who the nominees should be, and it was pretty much in agreement that it should be SP, G, ITH and "Passing Strange." Well, guys, we got three out of four.
The fifth nominee was a total toss-up, but TLM and YF were strong contenders.
There would be distortions at high volume spots on the album.
"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
>it's the first time the score has been recorded as a major studio album since the movie<
What of... The 1967 Lincoln Center recording with Florence Henderson and Giorgio Tozzi? The 1986 studio recording with Kiri Te Kanawa and Jose Carreras? The 1988 London cast recording with Gemma Craven and Emile Belcourt? The 2-disc complete recording with Paige O'Hara and Justino Diaz? The 2002 National Theatre recording with Lauren Kennedy and Philip Quast? The 2006 Carnegie Hall recording with Reba McIntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell?
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
However, the point that "South Pacific" has only been Grammy-honored in a Hall of Fame sort of way (the OBCR and "Some Enchanted Evening" separately as well, I believe) would lend some credence to the sentiment behind bjh's post.