Audio Clips for DRACULA Concept Recording Now Online

I like it.

I'll probably buy it.
DRACULA Audio Clips

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Take off your popupblocker. That may be the problem. Otherwise, click on the link of the song and click save target..that may work as well.

not the pop-up blocker. Won't work for me either....

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If you're not using firefox, netscape, or safari as a browser, it won't work for you.

It doesn't work with aol's browser or internet explorer.

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Works fine for me and I think they're awesome! Although I never saw the show... This is a great concept cast.

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This album sounds INCREDIBLE. Norm Lewis sounds unbelieveable. I've never heard him before and DEEP IN THE DARKEST NIGHT sounds like the best song in the show.

Found a scripting error, and the site has been fixed. Please let me know if it doesn't work for you anymore. Thanks.

if they were entire songs there'd be no point in them selling the CDs now would there be?

and why does Lauren Kennedy sing "Me soul was floating..." for THE MIST? Is Lucy Irish??? I mean, I know she was in the Bram Stoker's Dracula movie, but she wasn't Irish in La Jolla... was Lucy Irish on Broadway?

I just listened to all of the clips and I CAN'T WAIT to buy the CD. I never got to see the show on Broadway so I don't have anything to compare it to but they all sound amazing to me!!!

No this does not resemble the broadway production, thanks to the producers and director. This is much closer to Frank's original vision of the show!

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>> the orchestrations are almost identical

Not really.

I started from scratch on most of it -- I may have based the arrangement of a couple of the songs on my work for the demo, but when we hit the studio for the album, we wiped the slate clean - acoustic musicians replaced the MIDI, we approached different singers in different ways, and played to their strengths. Yes, the demo has my sound all over it (FYI, the Broadway producers asked me to produce all the music for their advertising campaigns) -- and through the compression of low-bandwidth internet sound, you may not hear all of it, but believe me, we treated this from scratch... the only exception being "The Mist" -- Lauren's vocal was so good, we chose to use the demo -- a similar situation to Celine Dion for "My Heart Will Go On" -- we kept her vocal, replaced everything else...

I can't wait for the album to ship (we had a meeting with our soon-to-be announced distributor today - looks like a late Jan/early Feb. release slot) - and we can discuss the artistic elements in detail, after everyone actually heard the final. Discussing 30-second clips doesn't lend itself to more than comments on the 30 seconds... and the songs are much longer than that!

I appreciate everyone's interest and I hope to share more about the process in the coming months.

Jeremy

I love how they cut the rhyming of "ideas and fears" in A PERFECT LIFE and just replaced it with music... hehe... much better choice...

>> Mina should NOT be belted

Really? Why not?

Frank wrote Mina for someone besides the 2 actors you've seen do the role... and as each actor brings something to their job, Frank will adjust his writing to the actor... and he did this for each US production.

When it was his turn to cast anyone he wanted for the recording, he chose Kate. And Kate and I worked out arrangements that we felt helped her tell the story. Her story. Her character.

Different than the 2 actors you've seen do the roles on stage? Yeah, a little.

Please reserve judgment on Kate until you hear her sing the songs from beginning to end - there is an arc and a story to each song - we're not auditioning here... no need to make it work in 16 bars. We just took a semi-random 30 seconds. I'm certain you will feel differently when you hear the finals.

I am interested to know why you feel "Mina should NOT be belted" though...

And thank you for the kind words re: the orchestrations.

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Updated On: 9/28/05 at 05:17 PM