Cast Recordings You HATE
Cast Recordings You HATE
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#0Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:19pm
What cast recordings do you own that you hardly listen to? It would probably be The Boyfriend and Big River for me...
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
Updated On: 1/21/06 at 08:19 PM
#1re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:22pm
man of La Mancha with Stokes
Saturday night Fever
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
#3re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:27pmFlowers for Algernon (I liked the book, so it didn't seem like such a bad idea . . .)
#4re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:43pmOk, hold up. Is this a thread about cast recordings we hate? Or is it about cast recordings we hardly listen to? 'Cause I know there are certainly cast recordings I hate, but I still listen to them. (C'mon, we're theatre folk, we're weird like that.) Anyone feel the same way?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
bare_nakedlady
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#5re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:51pm
Don't kill me but...
WICKED
I was so excited for it and bought it the first day it came out!
I can't stand to listen to it. I'm seeing it in MAY so I hope that makes me enjoy it more!
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#6re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:55pmI hardly listen to Wicked as well. I don't dislike it, but there is better stuff to listen to.
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
bohemianqueen
Understudy Joined: 1/18/06
#7re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:56pm
RENT
Sherry - The Musical
The Pajama Game
Nothing really matters, anyone can see, nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me....any way the wind blows
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#9re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:11pm
Hairspray
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Cats
The Scarlet Pimpernel
These are all recordings I barely listen to... Because any that I HATE, I simply don't buy! =)
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#10re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:21pm
sweet charity (2005 revival)... although i did just see the debbie allen one (with bebe as nicki, which is why i want it) at tower for 12 bucks so i might try another version out
man of la mancha
beauty and the beast
aida
the lion king (hmmm theres a common factor between these 3 i think)
cabaret(revival)
sweeney todd (don't kill me, i listen to it jsut not in full too often)
cats
phantom
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#11re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:23pmNo a Disney fan, Jon? I refuse to buy B&TB and Lion King but love Aida... in fact "A Step Too Far" is playing now!
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
EVIE
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#12re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:27pmBy no means do I hate them, but I hardly ever listen to Phantom, Miss Saigon, Piazza, The Hutchback of Notre Dame and the Rocky Horror Revival CD.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#13re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:35pmAnnie and Bye Bye Birdie.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#14re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:36pm
i listen to aida on occasion, and there are tracks in the beauty and the besat i enjoy (especially "me", singing it is so much fun) but there is just so many other things i'd rather be listening to. I also have flat out refused to purchase the following;
the light in the piazza(disclaimer: its just because i don't sing that high and i prefer cd's with a part i can sing along to)
spelling bee(i'm sure its hysterical in person)
the woman in white
any jukebox musical (if i want to hear and elvis song i'll listen to elvis sing it)
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#15re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:30pmOk ok, I'll jump in. I hate Caroline, or Change. It's a task and a half to listen to those two, long, dull, CDs. I wish they had made a highlights version that cut out all of the little rich boy's whining. Ugh!
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#16re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:32pm
The Producers.
Sure, it's cutesy pootsy when you see it in person, but I don't enjoy it that much on its own...without Nathan or Matthew I should say!
"Needless to say the crew is well acquainted with my ass and that's ok because they are the coolest guys ever."
- Idina Menzel
Bwaybaby109
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/03
#17re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:38pmthe original Godspell recording. hate the voices. love the 2000 off bway cast cd tho and the London studio recording.
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
aegeusrocks
Featured Actor Joined: 3/20/05
#18re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:39pmI know people will disagree, but I simply cannot stand listening to Avenue Q. I try, believe me, I try, but it's so musically repetitive and uninteresting that I just give up. I'm sure it's hilarious on stage, but honestly, it just doesn't work for me on the CD.
#19re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:40pmI must admit, whenever I do listen to The Producers (rarely), I usually get pissed off because The Full Monty so deserved Best Score that year. So I switch it off and put on my Patrick & the boys.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#20re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:53pm"Hate" is such a strong word.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#21re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:56pm
OK... can't stand.
That better?
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
broadway_freak2
Stand-by Joined: 10/2/05
#22re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/21/06 at 11:01pmI can't stand Urinetown. I think it's just horrible. The vocalists are fine. it's the lyrics... I can't stand it.
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#23re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:03am
the producers
kiss of the spider woman (OLC)
cats
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#24re: Cast Recordings You HATE
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:17am
Hair
Godspell
The Producers
Hate isn't the right word, but I hardly ever listen to these.
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