Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

#1

Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:22pm

You guys have spoiled(I don't think that is the right word) me! I learned that it was cast recording from reading this message board, and now I go nuts whenever anyone says 'Wicked soundtrack', or 'Avenue Q soundtrack,' which happens often in my theatre class. I try to correct them without being mean, but they just don't get it!

---

"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.

#2

re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:24pm

same with me. The first post I did, I said "soundtrack" and it was like I said "Sondheim is satan." I mean, everyone jumped on me. But, now it bugs me to no end when someone does it.

---

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

#3

re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:25pm

In the 1980s, the idiot DJs who played the DREAMGIRLS OBC on pop radio stations called it a "soundtrack."

---

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#4

re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:32pm

Whenever I shop on British websites, however, it seems that the convention in England is to call show recordings "soundtracks." Any Brits out there who can shed light on the confusion?

---

"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"

#5

re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:37pm

Bothers me too.

---

"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

#6

re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:48pm

1) Thank you for saying it, Elphie.

2) OH NO FLAME WAR OMGWTF!!!1!

#7

re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/8/04 at 12:04am

It makes me furious when I try to take cast recordings from my local library and they're grouped with the movie soundtracks. No, I'm not interested in the "Titanic" soundtrack, dammit! My library has 3 copies of it for no discernable reason.

#8

re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/8/04 at 1:09am

god save us from the literal minded

#9

re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack

Posted: 10/8/04 at 1:20am

I get kind of excited when people say "soundtrack" because I know that some fun, cynical comment is on the way.

#10

UK websites

Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:49am

Unfortunatly, most UK shops lump cast recordings in with soundtracks on the shop floor, so they just extend this priciple to their internet sites. Only the largest stores (ie those in London) actually separate them out. It is annoying if you just want to browse but I suppose that very few people acutally go with the intention of buy a cast recording - for many, the soundtrack (for example West Side Story) will do just as well. Their loss :)

#11

UK websites

Posted: 10/8/04 at 5:27am

I don't see the problem with calling them soundtracks. It has little effect on the day to day running of my life.

Go on, shoot me down.

#12

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 2:06am

hey plum,
titanic was also a pretty good broadway musical-if that's what yr library has-check it out....

#13

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 9:08am

I get scared when people say soundtrack because I think of the barrage of negativity they will receive and how they might just not know. I wonder if someone has ever said soundtrack and NOT gotten thoroughly criticized for it. Ahhh, what would it be like if people were so critical??? One can only wonder.
Nick

---

A ripple on the edge can be a tidal wave; no matter what the size. Anything can be, depending how you see when you're looking at the world with brand new eyes. ---Prodigal

#14

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 12:14pm

Why aren't we allowed to call them soundtracks? If so many people call them soundtracks, why can't we just say either works? At least half the people who speak English pronounce the word "word" often in correctly, but we let them do it because so many do and there's nothing you can do to change it.

#15

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 12:48pm

I got corrected for calling The Woman in White a soundtrack to me they have always been soundtracks I was in the music business now cast recording? When people came in they asked do you have the soundtrack to Phantom or Into the Woods etc.?

---

MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH!!!!!*******************

#16

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 1:08pm

...who cares?

#17

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 1:09pm

brillant.

---

NYC's Most Retarded Drag Queen The Mimi Show: hosted by Mimi Imfurst features Broadway stars Tuesdays @ 10:30pm Weekly! June 13th: Hairspray's Michelle Dowdy, June 20th: Aida's Lori Ann Strunk, June 27th: Composer Katie Thompson No Cover- No Drink Minimum OW BAR: 221 E 58th Street (between 2nd and 3rd) www.owbar.com

#18

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 1:09pm

Hi JakeB,

I'm taking aim!

An apple is not an orange.

An OBC is not a soundtrack.


You wouldn't call a theater a warehouse, would you? :)

---

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#19

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 5:22pm

dunno,maryethel....ever been to the gershwin?

#20

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 5:36pm

Hi Capn,

Unfortunately, I haven't been to Broadway since ... well, let's just say it's been a while. :)

But refresh my memory. Wasn't the Gershwin originally called the Uris? (whatever the heck that means :) )

---

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#21

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 5:36pm

That's a good one...
But all my friends call them soundtracks.
It bugs me to no end, but I keep my mouth shut.
Usually.

---

We can't all come and go by bubble...

#22

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 5:45pm

yes ma'am,maryethel,
The gershwin was indeed the Uris(I have no no idea who/what that was either),but it's a HUGE theatre!

#23

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 5:53pm

Hey Capn,

I remember now. The show that opened the Uris was SEESAW.

I still remember Tommy Tune (with about three pounds of hair) on Tonys singing "It's Not Where You Start."

---

"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."

#24

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 6:00pm

..."it's where you finish..."...good memory maryethel!

#25

UK websites

Posted: 10/9/04 at 6:03pm

As a Brit, it's because we don't have enough cast recordings of musicals in the record shops to warrant an individual section (except in the big stores ) even then they're still lumped in with the films) - mostly you have to order stuff in specially except for the really well-known cds.

And many, many Brits don't know the difference - a lot of British people are "casual" theatregoers - i.e. they'll go see a LLoyd-Webber or tribute show but have no strong feelings about musical theatre.