Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
#1Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 6:01pmI loved this show, is the CD worth purchasing? Thanks.
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#2Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 6:23pmWell if you loved the show, then.....
#3Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 6:51pmI was actually really disappointed when the Carrie cast album turned out to contain none of the music from the show, so I would recommend against it.
#4Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 6:53pmExcept that it did. Did you buy the wrong thing?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#5Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 7:02pmNo, it's the right thing. It's just Marin Mazzie complaining about the temperature in the room and then 72 minutes of a vamp from Into the Woods. Really disappointing for fans of the show.
#6Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 7:05pmOh, so you were trying to be funny? Many of the songs are very close to the original songs from the musical (CARRIE, EVE WAS WEAK, EVENING PRAYERS, UNSUSPECTING HEARTS, I REMEMBER HOW THOSE BOYS COULD DANCE, WHEN THERE'S NO ONE)..so I think it's confusing/misleading to say that "The Carrie cast album turned out to contain none of the music from the show".
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#7Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 7:10pmI don't think that made anyone laugh. Fail!
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#8Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 7:14pm
It's just Marin Mazzie complaining about the temperature in the room and then 72 minutes of a vamp from Into the Woods.
I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW
Updated On: 12/15/12 at 07:14 PM
#9Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 7:42pmAnd on the second disc you just hear her eating a buritto bowl from Chipotle for 20 minutes. And it ain't pretty.
#10Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/15/12 at 10:19pmSeriously, I listened to it a lot when I first got it, and now the only song I listen to with any regularity is When There's No One. The score doesn't really hold up to frequent listening.
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#11Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/16/12 at 5:12am
Speak for yourself :P. There are a few tracks I frequently listen to. Not the biggest fan of the second act, though.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#12Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/16/12 at 3:31pm
I've enjoyed it, too. The only number I find uninteresting musically or dramatically is "Why Not Me," which is too ruminative and subdued to pinpoint the sense of the expectation of a teenager; it also meanders on without its hook catching. Even if "I'm Not Alone" was tonally wrong, it had more youthful hope. The rest of the score holds up well enough, or features songs that contribute to the story ("The World According to Chris" does its job nicely, and is catchy). If you ever liked any aspect of the score, this album is a must. What struck me is how much of the story has been musicalized. Many colleges and others will try to produce this, thinking the story a slam dunk, but I think it's deceptively complex.
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Updated On: 12/16/12 at 03:31 PM
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#13Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/17/12 at 8:51pmThe entire off Broadway production is posted on YouTube in like 5 or 6 parts. Just FYI.
#14Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/17/12 at 8:54pmWhoever posted it there should rot in hell.
#15Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/17/12 at 9:28pmI'm one of the few Broadway aficionados who hadn't heard the score until this album came out (I like bootlegs only if I'm already familiar with a score). I now totally get why people are fascinated by this show. I don't think a lot of the songs necessarily hold up (I find "The World According to Chris" extremely jarring after "Eve Was Weak" and "Unsuspecting Hearts" makes me roll my eyes, but I get why people like them), but oh my God, some of the songs are as good as something from a Sondheim musical. Both "Eve Was Weak" and "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance" (the Margaret section, the "Mama, don't you think it's time..." section and the end should have been separated into a different track just to have the song as a solo for Mazzie) are absolutely thrilling musical theatre. Mazzie is spectacular as Margaret on the recording, I eventually listened to the original bootleg and love Buckley in those numbers as well, both of them great in their own way. I definitely recommend getting the album, it's pretty fascinating stuff.
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#16Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/17/12 at 9:54pm
"... I'd rather be shot, because life just doesn't begin, doesn't begin, doesn't begin, doesn't begin, doesn't beginnnnnn, until you're in."
Sondheim does leap right to mind.
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#17Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/17/12 at 10:28pm
I think Sondheim is a stretch, especially since the lyrics range from the effective to the abysmal - "I prayed this day would never come I might have know. Now I'm alone."
The harmonies in In are killer, though.
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#18Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/17/12 at 10:55pmOh, definitely the lyrics are not Sondheim-level, I guess I was referring more to the ability to musicalize an entire scene and establish a dramatic relationship between the characters, something I think Sondheim is an expert at. Total overkill to compare it to Sondheim, I was trying to say that those songs are incredibly effective dramatically speaking, and they're sort of unconventional in their style (they're not just arias, like say "When There's No One" or some of the more traditional numbers).
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#19Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/18/12 at 12:03am
I know what you mean though, ray.
I first 'got into" musicals because I saw Sweeney Todd and thought wow, I can't believe how the composer (who obviously I later learned was Sondheim) used music to so effectively tell a story for so many of the songs (e.g. MY FRIENDS, EPIPHANY) - it really made me understand why the music was necessary and without it I knew something would be missing.
And I really think that some songs in CARRIE (specifically EVE WAS WEAK and perhaps THOSE BOYS) are that good in terms of musicalising a scene, drama etc..
This clip is just terrifying:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LnP3qg_Djk&t=1m8s
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 12/18/12 at 12:03 AM
#20Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/18/12 at 3:29amI bought it and I like it a lot!
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#21Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/18/12 at 4:08amI thought the musical was great fun. Shakespeare it was not, but I was never bored watching it. And while I like the original bootlegs better, the new Carrie CD is a welcome addition to my collection.
#22Carrie, The Musical 2012-Recording
Posted: 12/18/12 at 9:04amI would listen to this sophomoric score again, but only if I were paid no less than $10,000. And that would be ONE listen only.
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