CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 12:28pm
Broadway Records announced today the forthcoming release of Assassins (The 2022 Off-Broadway Cast Recording). The album will preserve Stephen Sondheim's full score with the recent Classic Stage Company cast with direction by John Doyle. Assassins is available for pre-order at Broadwayrecords.com. The album will be available digitally on March 18, with a physical CD release date of April 15, 2022.
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#2CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 12:36pm
Exciting. If Assassins could make it happen, Company better follow!
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#4CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 12:38pm
I’m surprised. When did they record this?
AllThatJazz2
Broadway Star Joined: 6/15/17
Kimbo
Featured Actor Joined: 4/8/08
#6CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 1:00pm
CATSNYrevival said: "I’m surprised. When did they record this?"
Why surprised? What was the last major Sondheim revival that didn’t get a recording? (Asnes this one makes more sense than others, since by all accounts we should unofficially still stay tuned for news about the show’s transfer.)
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#7CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 1:17pm
Is this our first major cast album to be recorded in our - sad to say - post-Sondheim era? 
Ravenclaw
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/17
#8CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 1:22pm
I hope some of the dialogue--particularly Andy Grotelueschen's monologues--gets recorded for this album. I thought it was a phenomenal production all-around and I look forward to listening to it!
Also hoping we get an announcement about Company getting recorded soon.
#9CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 1:25pm
CATSNYrevival said: "I’m surprised. When did they record this?"
They probably haven't recorded it yet. It's less expensive to record an album after a show has closed.
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#10CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 1:30pm
Check Broadway Records' social media posts; it may be being recorded as we speak, or had some parts of it recently recorded.
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#11CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/8/22 at 2:26pm
itsjustmejonhotmailcom said: "CATSNYrevival said: "I’m surprised. When did they record this?"
They probably haven't recorded it yet. It's less expensive to record an album after a show has closed."
If it's years later...maybe (under certain circumstances). Just weeks later...nope.
aja
Swing Joined: 2/4/10
#12CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 2/9/22 at 10:54am
Very excited to hear this news. I wasn't able to get to NY in time to see this production, but I had an odd question for those that did. Did Steven Pasquale as Wilkes Booth not sport a mustache? In photos I dont see one and it struck me as odd. Forgive me if this has been discussed elsewhere.
Updated On: 2/9/22 at 10:54 AM
#13CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/17/22 at 7:17pm
First listen to "Unworthy of Your Love" is available now on Playbill.com.
https://playbill.com/article/get-a-first-listen-to-adam-chanler-berat-and-tavi-gevinson-singing-assassins-unworthy-of-your-love
The full album is slated to be released digitally tomorrow, March 18.
rattleNwoolypenguin
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/11/11
#14CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/17/22 at 7:35pm
Performances are great but Ooo.
Really really missing the brass. Especially in the bridge.
I think it's actually a very necessary orchestration element of this show, and especially the sort of Carpenters, 70'sey song this is supposed to be a riff on that brass is what makes it.
#15CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 1:13am
rattleNwoolypenguin said: "Really really missing the brass. Especially in the bridge."
If I remember correctly the orchestrations were greatly expanded for the original cast album. I’m not sure Assassins has ever been staged with an orchestra that large and I don’t believe the show really cries out for that treatment. My biggest issue is the amount of artificial reverb in that video but listening to the album now that is happily not the final mix I’m hearing.
#16CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 1:19am
Listening to a few songs right now and loving them, but I need to get some sleep. Excited for a full listen tomorrow!
#17CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 7:36am
CATSNYrevival said: "rattleNwoolypenguin said: "Really really missing the brass. Especially in the bridge."
If I remember correctly the orchestrations were greatly expanded for the original cast album. I’m not sure Assassins has ever been staged with an orchestra that large and I don’t believe the show really cries out for that treatment. My biggest issue is the amount of artificial reverb in that video but listening to the album now that is happily not the final mix I’m hearing."
That is true, but the 2004 Broadway production had 13 musicians, and it sounds very full on the cast recording.
Also, why can’t I find this new recording on iTunes or Apple Music?
#18CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 9:03am
So far I only see it on the Broadway Records website and Spotify.
#19CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 9:38am
Hi there... Robbie from Broadway Records here. For some reason, Apple is taking their sweet time ingesting it into their system, which is wildly frustrating. It is, however, everywhere else - here's a handy link of everywhere you can get it, that is updated as other platforms ingest.
https://www.broadwayrecords.com/assassins-1
#20CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 10:09am
As an update, the album is now on iTunes / Apple Music!
https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/assassins-the-2022-off-broadway-cast-recording/1614294844?itsct=music_box_link&itscg=30200&at=10l8Nk&ls=1&app=music
#21CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 10:09am
Thank you, Robbie! Can’t wait to listen.
#22CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 10:32am
I'll never turn down a new recording of my favorite Sondheim show, and I loved this production, but this won't supplant the Roundabout album for me. I really miss that final gunshot at the end of the show - obviously, in the live production that was covered by
footage of the Capitol riots,
but I don't think it works without the gunshot. While I vastly preferred CSC's production to the 2017 one at City Center, I was disappointed that both of them fell into the trap of trying to do something "current" with the ending instead of keeping the original.
#23CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 10:38am
I adore the way the band sounds like a seedy, roadside side show band. We already have a lush Assassins (two actually!).
#24CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 1:41pm
Always happy for a new recording of Assassins. The accompaniment is really well done, I particularly appreciate the vibrant down-home vibe (feels like it's being performed in the actual bar the assassins meet in), and the vocals feel much less cartoony than the Broadway recording, which is welcome. I will say, I do kind of miss the game show vibe of the Broadway recording, particularly for the moment where Guiteau's corpse is just swinging there and the orchestra is going wild. Those moments of gleeful, violent juxtaposition are my favorite element of the show. I'm also convinced that Something Just Broke is unnecessary, but it's pretty and the use of the vibraphone is fantastic in this one.
thirtythirtyninety
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
#25CSC’s ASSASSINS to receive cast album
Posted: 3/18/22 at 4:19pm
This might be the best sung recording of the score to date; very pleasantly surprised! Now I’ll be kicking myself for missing the production in person.
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