Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack
Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
#0Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack
Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:22pmYou 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!
Wishes come true, not free.
#1re: 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. 
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#2re: 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."
#3re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack
Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:32pmWhenever 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?
#4re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack
Posted: 10/7/04 at 11:37pmBothers me too.
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#5re: 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!
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#6re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack
Posted: 10/8/04 at 12:04amIt 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.
capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
StrStruckDreamr9
Featured Actor Joined: 5/11/04
#8re: Cast Recording, NOT Soundtrack
Posted: 10/8/04 at 1:20amI get kind of excited when people say "soundtrack" because I know that some fun, cynical comment is on the way.
#9UK websites
Posted: 10/8/04 at 4:49amUnfortunatly, 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 :)
JakeB
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10UK 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.
capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
#11UK 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....
#12UK 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
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#13UK websites
Posted: 10/9/04 at 12:14pmWhy 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.
BroadwayBallyBoo
Understudy Joined: 10/4/04
#14UK websites
Posted: 10/9/04 at 12:48pmI 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.?
Mimi Imfurst
Broadway Star Joined: 10/9/04
#16UK websites
Posted: 10/9/04 at 1:09pmbrillant.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#17UK 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? :)
capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#19UK 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 :) )
defy_gravity
Stand-by Joined: 9/12/04
#20UK 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.
capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
#21UK 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!
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#22UK 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."
capnkidd
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/04
#24UK 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.
Videos