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#26

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/2/06 at 5:52pm

the nonesuch website has the tracklist:

Disc 1
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
No Place Like London
The Worst Pies in London
Poor Thing
My Friends
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
Green Finch and Linnet Bird
Ah, Miss
Johanna
Pirelli's Miracle Elixir
The Contest
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
Johanna
Wait
Kiss Me
Ladies in Their Sensitivities
Kiss Me

Disc 2
Pretty Women
Epiphany
A Little Priest
God, That's Good!
Johanna
By the Sea
Not While I'm Around
The Judge's Return
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd



Updated On: 1/3/06 at 05:52 PM

#28

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:23pm

Is that a full list? I haven't seen the show yet.

With the enormous amount of acclaim this show is getting, especially for the way the music is done, you'd think they'd do a full CD.

Is it really that much of a financial risk to record all of the songs as opposed to most of them?

I don't know anything about how all of this works, but it seems a bit absurd.
#30

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:29pm

Missing:
Barber and his Wife
Parlor Songs
City on Fire
Searching
Beggar Woman's Lullaby
Final Sequence

(as per a song list I found online)

Updated On: 1/3/06 at 06:29 PM

#32

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:35pm

But...I mean, this is the show's mark for the rest of time after it closes...what's the point of excluding just a few bits like that?

I can almost understand if you're a real cheapskate and will only produce a highlights album, but why make a CD and leave just a few pieces out?
#33

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:36pm

They Cut Parlour Songs?! And A Barber and his Wife?! That Blows Majorly.
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
#34

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:37pm

I have a feeling "The Judges Return" will include when Sweeney *SPOILER* kills Lovett *SPOILER.*

I hope so, because it's a great moment - musically & lyrically.

The only cut that is perplexing me is the cut of Sweeney's "Barber and His Wife."

Otherwise the cuts are VERY understandable. None of those are major songs besides "Barber and his Wife." There shouldn't be much complaining, because most of the score was recorded.

Updated On: 1/3/06 at 06:37 PM

#35

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:43pm

Maybe "No Place Like London" will actually be "No Place Like London" AND "The Barber and His Wife."
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth
#36

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:49pm

Good point, Jasonbres. That's a great possibility.

I completely understand cutting "Parlor Songs" because it's mostly dialogue. And the other songs cut are minor songs that are intertwined with dialogue.
#37

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:49pm

Good point, Jasonbres. That's a great possibility.

I completely understand cutting "Parlor Songs" because it's mostly dialogue. And the other songs cut are minor songs that are intertwined with dialogue.
#38

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 8:37pm

"Beggar Woman's Lullaby" is not in this revival.


so, other than "city on fire" and "parlor songs", both of which may not have owrked on disc due to the staging of this production, sweeney's "barber and his wife" is that only major cut.

and Jasonbres has a good guess in that it could be included in the track titled, "no place like london"

i'm glad to see that so much made it on the disc. in a comepltely superficial note, it will be interesting to hear a song come immediately following "a little priest"

#39

not to beat a dead horse but....

Posted: 1/3/06 at 9:27pm

I'm so excited. I got tickets today to see the show (in case you are following my posts... my plans changed, I'm going to NY next week, not this week)

But, anyhoo, I'm relieved to read that it is going to be 2 disks. I'm even more excited!
#40

well...

Posted: 1/4/06 at 12:40am

Updated On: 2/23/06 at 12:40 AM

#41

well...

Posted: 1/4/06 at 1:59am

Ok, I retract my earlier outburst. I understand the cuts completly, but I just love how Alex did Parlour Songs.
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
#42

well...

Posted: 1/4/06 at 11:00am

Incidentally, I wonder how they recorded the album. Did they record the music and then the vocals separately or both at the same time?
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth
#43

well...

Posted: 1/4/06 at 12:54pm

jasobres that was my question....did they play there instruments or did they just sing?
#44

well...

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:09pm

I just sent an E-mail to amazon stating the weird error and asking them to fix it.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth
#45

well...

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:15pm

The actors definitely played their own instruments on the recording. They have pics for the recording session on Broadway.com

The instruments are just as important as their singing for their roles in this revival.
#46

well...

Posted: 1/4/06 at 6:33pm

whoa, this is exciting! im glad its 2 disks, hey, at least it has more songs than the highlights cd!!!
and i really hope this comes out the same day as the color purple cd- it would make my shopping experience so much easier...
and they better not postpone, and keep on postponing the release date cuz that gets annoying when you really want a cd!!!! :P
#47

SWEENEY TODD on CD

Posted: 1/6/06 at 2:08pm

While I am glad this cast is getting recorded (even slightly truncated) and look forward to getting the album when it is released, I do feel that somehow two major needs in the SWEENEY discography are being missed:

1. We NEED a good single disc of highlights
(RCA originally issued SWEENEY on CD in 1985 as highlights to get the 2 LPs down to one cd. Finally in 1988 they replaced that with the 2 CD edition that has been in print ever since.)

2. SWEENEY needs a full "symphonic" Cd of the entire score including the sections normally cut for performance.

Back when Cd's were new, there wre a number of "opera" cast recordings starting with Leondard Bernstin conducting WEST SIDE STORY. The orchestra on this was fine but the cast headed by Kiri Te Kanawa and Jose Carreras was awful. Still the CD sold really well so the same two stars were cast in SOUTH PACIFIC. (That Carreras is a tenor, not a bass as the role was written for Ezio Pinza, and that the character of Emile is French ...not Spanish seems to have eluded the record producers.)

Imagine a studio recording of SWEENEY (Brynn Terfel in the lead?) with a full opera orchestra of 51, large chorus and singers who can act, recorded under optimum conditions (not a "live" recording) and produced with the same care and attention to detail that goes into leading Opera recordings.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

#49

SWEENEY TODD on CD

Posted: 1/6/06 at 4:32pm

CDuniverse info is release date 1/31
sale price =$13.99
#50

SWEENEY TODD on CD

Posted: 1/6/06 at 5:00pm

After seeing the show, I don't mind the cuts that much; it seems like the themes are repeated through the show so much that everything has little snippets of something else in it;

I will miss Parlor songs and Barber and His Wife, however.

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