About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

#1

About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

Posted: 8/5/06 at 9:04am

Hello there !
I'm french and I love musicals (I worked on "Fiddler on the Roof" in Paris the last season).
Well, I would like to know if a new cast recording of the revival "La Cage aux Folles" was available ?
Thanks !
Sébastien

#2

re: About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

Posted: 8/5/06 at 9:04am

No, it went unrecorded.

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#3

re: About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

Posted: 8/5/06 at 9:06am

And that's too bad.
I thought it was great and I did see the original production.

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#4

re: About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

Posted: 8/5/06 at 9:09am

Not like we all didnt try our best to get this to happen. It was a great revival, who had passionate fans. The Marketing & Producers behind tried to kill it at every turn they got, and eventually succeeded.

#5

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Posted: 8/5/06 at 9:09am

I think though that it was in better hands, vocally, with the original cast.

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#6

re: About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

Posted: 8/5/06 at 9:18am

I saw the original in 1984, and it was splendid!

The 2005 Revival was wonderful, totally enjoyable, and should have had a long run!

#7

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Posted: 8/5/06 at 9:21am

Truly one of my favorite shows- - - - - -

#8

re: About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

Posted: 8/5/06 at 10:16am

I much prefered the original orchestrations though.

#9

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Posted: 8/5/06 at 10:19am

I liked this show a lot, the only orchastration that I didn't care for was the opening, which sounded like a banjo in the revival.

And a great cast too!!

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#10

re: About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

Posted: 8/5/06 at 11:31am

I loved this show! but it seemed to be doing poorly at the box office when it closed. Too sad.

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#11

re: About La Cage Aux Folles Revival

Posted: 8/5/06 at 12:08pm

Sadly, it went unrecorded. While I cannot and will not discredit the original cast recording, it still infuriates me that this phenomenal score (and with another phenomenal cast in the revival) cannot have two English recordings. You can get ten different versions of some, but La Cage didn't even get it's second.

To me, that's really sad.

#12

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Posted: 8/5/06 at 12:15pm

The original recording is good, but it sounds... old. I wanted a newer version with the cast that I saw to remember the wonderful time I had in the theatre that day.

#13

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Posted: 8/5/06 at 1:26pm

I love this opera ! And I find that's very very sad that a new cast recording was not available...Well you know, here in France, we had also the musical version of "La Cage Aux Folles" in 1999 (I think that is right).
And the show was a flop (even if the cast and the production was great !). I've some songs from the french cast, but the sound is terrific !!

#14

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Posted: 8/5/06 at 1:37pm

opera?

#15

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Posted: 8/5/06 at 1:41pm

"The original recording is good, but it sounds... old"

I feel the same way, it really deserve a new recording


"I love this opera"

Say what?

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#16

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Posted: 8/5/06 at 2:17pm

Oups, I would like to say "show" not "opera" !! (I'm working at the opera actually so I hear this word every time for (almost) every thing !!)