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Posted: 3/16/10 at 4:27pm

Any moments on Cast Recordings that make you cringe inside?

I've got a couple, but the main one has to be 'In the Heights'

In the opening number when
Vanessa: "You owe me a bottle of cheap champagne!"
Usnavi: Are you leaving?

Usnavi's line is so cringe, it sounds kinda out of tune and just grates everytime! lol

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Posted: 3/16/10 at 4:53pm

During The Tommy Steele Scrooge cast recording (which we had to rush to record) in the middle of December 25th, one of the ensemble gets a bit carried away and sings "deccember...." and then realises shes wrong and it was removed during the mix down - god it annoys me everytime i listen to it!

The Artist Formally Known As 'Anon2'

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Posted: 3/16/10 at 5:13pm

CD 1 and CD 2 of 'Love Never Dies'

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Posted: 3/16/10 at 5:43pm

I enjoyed LND but the cast recording mixing and mastering is awful....it sounds like your listening to it thru a biscuit tin...

The Artist Formally Known As 'Anon2'

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Posted: 3/16/10 at 8:07pm

Rocky Horror Show The Whole Gory Story, when Rocky says hello to everyone its like...just so...bad...

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Posted: 3/17/10 at 1:32am

The film soundtrack of HELLO DOLLY! - Aside from Barbra, nobody can sing! (Maybe she wanted it that way.) Ok, Matthau sounds gruff and its in character but Michael Crawford has a terrible time with the top notes. The Barnaby is awful, and the chorus sounds dainty instead of enthusiastic.

On a proper cast album Gordon Polk's climatic note on "Don't Tell Me" (HAPPY HUNTING) is a clinker made all the more painful because 5 seconds later Ethel does her opening song and blows him and everyone else out of the water.

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

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Posted: 3/17/10 at 4:25am

The Streidnd 'Hello Dolly' was awful(Crawford has never been able to muster a credible American accent). Channing was better but the best still is Pearl Bailey and the black cast. It's far superior in every way.

Mind you, the 'Time' soundtrack was cringeworthy as the show.
Judge: 'What do you do on earth?'
Cliff: I'm a rock star
Judge: A rock star? Stars are in the sky, not on earth.

Please get me my Ibupofen!

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Posted: 3/17/10 at 8:00pm

My sister and I have been listening to the Streisand "Dolly" ever since Wall-e, and we both thought the same thing. Even in the same song, there are miles of differences between everyone else's vocals vs. Streisand's. "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" is one glaring example. Everyone else sounds like they were recorded with the microphone on one side of a large hallway and the chorus on the other, while Bab's vocals sound like they were recorded intimately in a cushy sound booth.

It's the strangest thing.

Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!

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Posted: 3/18/10 at 3:45am

There's a fantastic bum note from a member of the brass section on the Overture from the Original London Cast Recording of Hans Andersen with Tommy Steele.

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Posted: 3/18/10 at 7:16am

OBC HELLO, DOLLY! when Channing comes in early (in Sunday Clothes) and stops short. Even when the Deluxe Version was released they didn't omit it.

#11

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Posted: 3/18/10 at 9:32am

Oh another one; on the 2005 Sweet Charity recording, in Big Spender the last time they say "I don't pop my cork for every guy I see" one of the girls really stands out when she quivers on the see, and she is really loud too. I've heard it once, now I hear it every time haha!

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