A TALE OF TWO CITIES PianoVocal Songbook Now Avaliable

You're stretching the board, hun.

Wow! You guys are tooo quick for me with your comebacks! =O

Better now?

Updated On: 12/19/09 at 01:05 AM

Cats, from what I infered, I think the products might be packaged and sent by them (meaning the creative/producing team), not a third party. They are probably trying to keep the budget going, and doing a lot themselves.
I know what you mean about the waiting, because I ordered mine a while back, and still have no clue when I will get it. When budget is tight, things might not run as smootly, unfortunately, and they might not even know themselves when they can put the CD out, exactly.
I just want to get mine already...maybe then I will answear my own question :I

Oh good, so now we can sing and play along with the music that has no melody.

Ok Cats, Bway Babe and company - i'm home for 24 hours on a rare break from cd post production and able to do a little catching up - what do you wanna know?

First, no discourtesy has been intended in our not releasing specifics and we're certainly not getting any sick pleasure out of torturing anyone- we truly have not known the specifics previously. Secondly, Bway Babe you're on the money about the nature of the endeavor - we're producing, editing, designing ourselves and there are literally 2-4 people doing all of it - so I'm sure you can imagine! I myself have been basically living at my orchestrator/co-producer/engineer/mixer's (yes this man can do it all!) house for the past 2 weeks. My feeling is that you all would rather have the very best recording we can give you and not just one that's rushed out the door to get it in the mail to you - I hope you guys will agree and can be patient a little longer. It's also my understanding that everybody who's called to pledge PBS was told 6 to 10 weeks for delivery - and so that's the deadline we've been working under - and unless the people who do the actually shipping (we don't have to do that THANK GOD) drop the ball, everybody should be getting their stuff no more than 6 weeks from the date they order it and probably sooner.

Here's the track list as it currently stands - though in just the past 24 hours it has changed again due to the fact that we have more music that we would have liked to include than the 80 minute format will allow us to include. So we're still trying to figure things out in that dept. this list comes out to about 79 minutes and 50 seconds!

SONGS

ACT I
1. THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE
2. WHO ARE YOU
3. YOU’LL NEVER BE ALONE
4. ARGUMENT
6. THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE (London)
6. NO HONEST WAY
7. THE TRIAL
8. REFLECTION
9. LETTER FROM UNCLE
10. THE PROMISE
11. I CAN’T RECALL
12. RESURRECTION MAN
13. NOW AT LAST
14. IF DREAMS CAME TRUE
15. OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND
16. LITTLE ONE
17. UNTIL TOMORROW

ACT II
18. EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME
19. THE TALE
20. IF DREAMS CAME TRUE Reprise
21. WITHOUT A WORD
22. THE BLUFF
23. LET HER BE A CHILD
24. DREAMS REPRISE/THE LETTER
25. DEFARGE GOODBYE
26. FINALE
27. NEVER SAY GOODBYE (bonus track)

thank you so much jill!
will there be extra footage that was cut out of the concert on the dvd?

I agree with CATS, that would indeed be GREAT if whatever material does not make the CD due to space constraints, be available to us for download. Myself, and many others I know, would buy the tracks in a second! If not iTunes, maybe mp3 downloads from the website, I remember through the "online store" at talemusical.com you could order the original concept through paypal. Maybe just offer the tracks extra tracks as mp3 downloads on there and charge through paypal.:) I'm sure broadwayworld.com would announce such a thing too. Just a suggestion. :) Thanks so much Jill.

I am very happy that it looks like most of the material is on there though. The only things I notice that aren't present are Shadows of the Night, the little Christmas tune "Bless This Night", I Always Knew (Darnay), and wasn't there a little reprise the of "The Way it Ought to Be" after Reflection? I assume this is the cut material we're speaking of? Was all of that recorded?

Updated On: 12/19/09 at 04:22 PM

Wasn't "Bless the Night" just another little tidbit of "Round & Round"?

"The Way It Ought To Be" Mme DeFarge reprise was after Reflection from what I remember!

THanks for posting the song list Jill! Upsetting it won't be here before Christmas, but atleast it's coming !

"Merely your opinion, Yankee. I, and many, many others (including overseas, it seems), happen to appreciate the hauntingly beautiful melodies Jill's music possesses."

You are obviously a shill for the hopelessly untalented wanna-be of this swill.

The show closed. What could possibly be gained from shilling? There hasn't even been any sort of confirmation on an official release for the CD and DVD except to confirm that everything is still up in the air. I don't see the advantages of a shill at this point.

Thanks for the update JillS! I can't wait for everything to come out! And that's amazing that there are only 2-4 of you guys doing it, what a task! Do you know if the rights to Tale will ever be released for amateur productions?

"Do you know if the rights to Tale will ever be released for amateur productions?"

madscientist: There was a regional production in Cherry Hill, NJ (across the river from Philly) using the Broadway sets, costumes, etc. put on by mainly high school and college students. I can't comment on the future of the regional rights, nor do I know if Jill can, but it seems like they'd be released eventually! I hope so anyway!