A Tale Of Two Cities Concert DVD

I checked on Amazon & it is not listed. Ditto for Talkin Broadway

Any idea when it will come out?

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The Jekyll & Hyde Resurrection CD was released ages ago.

Well, P, I guess "two out of three ain't bad"?

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"And the Dracula concept album is a Google search away pretty much."

I've been looking all over Google for it and can't find it anywhere! am i being really stupid or something, i really wanna hear some of this music! It's Wildhorn so i'm guessing there are a few audition-friendly ballads

Not anymore. At least not here. It was only available on my local pbs website for a few days after the broadcast.

Or an itunes release date? I want the bonus tracks too!

Well I PM'ed her a while back and this is what she said:

re; additional tracks - i'm not entirely sure yet, but probably the opening of the show, short overturish Out of Sight instrumental and the Prologue Dr. Manette sang (briefly in previews that was cut by the time we got to opening night) and the little ditty sea shanty Dover and Gabelle's Letter and I Always Knew. Though we'll need to go back into the studio and finish mixing that stuff separately at a later date - so i really have no idea when that would happen.

I'm personally glad that Never Say Goodbye is gonna be a bonus track because I just think Without A Word is a better song (plus Jill actually wrote that one).

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Also, didn't Frank write a show called Never Say Goodbye? And now it's a song in a concert of a show that he didn't even write? It's confusing as hell. It's a good song, but I don't think it belongs in A Tale of Two Cities.

Why would Frank have written a new song for Jill Santoriello's "Tale of Two Cities"? That's what I don't understand? Even if he did work on a version years ago, and that's the first I've heard that story, why would he suddenly get involved with this? And I wasn't surprised when I heard "Never Say Goodbye" was completely different to the version from the show of the same name. Remember the title "I Was Born To Love You" appears in both "Dracula" and "Rudolf" and Jack Murphy has a habit of using the word "Man..." or "Woman..." in his titles (Count how many times the word "Woman" appears in the songlist for "Carmen". Yeah, you can tell I'm not Jack's biggest fan... Go Nan!)

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Updated On: 1/9/10 at 05:17 AM

rockfenris2005, I'm not a big fan of Jack's lyrics either. Most of the time they don't even sound good like some other bad lyricists!

All I know is that Frank wrote the song for Brandi specifically for the concert. Remember, Frank and Brandi were still engaged during Tale's Broadway run (or atleast the beginning of it), so I would assume this is how he and Jill became friends. For all we know, he could have said "if "Without a Word" doesn't fit, I have a song you could fit in there" and sent her the music or whatever. Or Jill could have asked, or Brandi/James Barbour could've suggested it!

Just got my DVD in the mail!

Bonus features are Brandi Burkhardt performing "Without a Word" (literally, same staging as "Never Say Goodbye," but that one is more of a melancholy song and WaW is more angry). Also, the interview with Dickens' relative!

No CD though still!