Addams Family OBCR (EDIT: Samples of Entire Cast Album)

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Addams Family OBCR (EDIT: Samples of Entire Cast Album)

Posted: 5/28/10 at 7:26am

http://bln.kr/GV1/

This is just a preview of the opening number, but this thread could also be used as a discussion when the rest of the previews become available.

Updated On: 5/29/10 at 07:26 AM

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Posted: 5/28/10 at 10:37am

The balance between the orchestra and the cast is pretty off, it sounds.
Like they're almost trying to drown each other out...

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Posted: 5/28/10 at 10:51pm

That was a pretty horrible clip to choose for any kind of preview.

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Posted: 5/28/10 at 10:53pm

Agree - the lyrics are ver indstinct. At first I thought they were singing "When you're an ADULT..."

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Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:26pm

This is one of the few numbers I've come to enjoy from the show and this does not sound good.

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Posted: 5/28/10 at 11:35pm

Who produced this? Yikes. I hope it's just the clip.

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 12:10am

You can really hear Jackie Hoffman though!!!

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 12:27am

Haha... I noticed that Jackie Hoffman seemed especially loud. I'm not complaining though.

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 5:32am

why cant you hear bebe and nathan when they are leads????

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 9:14am

Samples for the entire cast album were released:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Addams-Family/dp/B003O5I1R2

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 9:37am

There are some good ones... and some "meh" ones... But Carolee sounds FIERCE in "Waiting." "Pulled" also sounds great.

(On another note, I LOVE Jackie Hoffman's interjections in "Let's Not Talk About Anything Else But Love (Reprise)! They're so perfect and gives her the opportunity to show (not enough but) that little bit of her goofiness to add to the album.)

Updated On: 5/29/10 at 09:37 AM

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 10:10am

One Normal Night, Full Disclosure, Waiting, and Crazier Than You sound amazing. But I do agree, some of them sound ehh.

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 10:19am

One Normal Night, Full Disclosure, and a few other numbers sound great. I agree that many of the songs aren't too good, but the good numbers are making me excited to buy the OBCR.

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 12:34pm

They sound much more powerful live. But I'm still looking forward to get this album..
I still adore them and their show, haha :)

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 1:53pm

"I still adore them and their show, haha :)"

As if there were a doubt in our minds.

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Posted: 5/29/10 at 2:49pm

Okay so it was just the way that clip. Sounds much better, though much of this score is just a bore.

And Krysta Rodriquez is the most irritating thing on Broadway right now.

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 2:46pm

IT'S OFFICIAL... "Clandango", the original opening number from the Chicago pre-Broadway tryouts will be a bonus track on iTunes. Though, the article is old, it is glad to hear the 'news'. lol.

http://www.playbill.com/playblog/2010/04/celeb-playblogger-kevin-chamberlin-april-21/

I figured it'd be this song, but you never know. Some people would have guessed "Passionate and True" or "Second Banana". However, some of you BWW-users who saw the show in Chicago said that the latter song was not very good.

Updated On: 5/31/10 at 02:46 PM

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 5:01pm

Is the Passionate and True theme still prevalent in the instrumentals and dance sequences? Was it recycled into one of the new songs?

Plus, am I correct in believing that Morticia is an evolution of "At Seven?"

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 5:04pm

As long as they have Terrance Mann's big second act number, In The Arms (Of A Squid), I'm fine.

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:46pm

Does anyone know if there's going to be a cast CD signing?

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:06pm

"Is the Passionate and True theme still prevalent in the instrumentals and dance sequences? Was it recycled into one of the new songs?"

Yes, the theme is the basis to Where Did We Go Wrong? and the theme of At Seven has become the theme of Morticia

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:12pm

I listened to a few of these snippets and the score sounds like any one of the "Grade B" musicals that used to be on Broadway in the 60's. You know, HOW NOW DOW JONES and SKYSCRAPER and that ilk.

It doesn't make me want to see this show.

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:15pm

"Passionate and True" also resurfaces just before the final build of the tango sequence at the end of the show (when Nathan runs to get the rose to give Bebe), and said tango sequence begins with underscoring taken from "Tango Tango Tango" -- a not particularly effective (but lyrically clever) number for Bebe and Carolee that was cut soon after previews began and which was a part of their current book scene where they look through family photos together.

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:51pm

Dolly, Addams Family makes Skyscraper sound like Carousel in comparison.

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Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:02pm

Just to clarify, Fester's "Let's Not Talk About Anything Else But Love" production number was also cut?