Cast Recordings You HATE

[DramaDork925]

Cast Recordings You HATE#0

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

[Pippin]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#1

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."

[sidneybruhl]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#2

Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:23pm

The Producers

[Jenny1284]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#3

Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:27pm

Flowers for Algernon (I liked the book, so it didn't seem like such a bad idea . . .)

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#4

Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:43pm

Ok, 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)

[bare_nakedlady]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#5

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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#6

Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:55pm

I 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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#7

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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#8

Posted: 1/21/06 at 8:59pm

The Lion King
The Producers

[overthemoon419]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#9

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.

My avatar: Yummy, no?

[jonartdesigns]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#10

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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#11

Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:23pm

No 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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#12

Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:27pm

By 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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#13

Posted: 1/21/06 at 9:35pm

Annie 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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#14

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

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#15

Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:30pm

Ok 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)

[hyperchet]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#16

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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#17

Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:38pm

the 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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#18

Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:39pm

I 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.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#19

Posted: 1/21/06 at 10:40pm

I 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)

[jasobres]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#20

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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#21

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]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#22

Posted: 1/21/06 at 11:01pm

I can't stand Urinetown. I think it's just horrible. The vocalists are fine. it's the lyrics... I can't stand it.

[broadwaybelter]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#23

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:03am

the producers
kiss of the spider woman (OLC)
cats

[ihearttheatre]

re: Cast Recordings You HATE#24

Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:17am

Hair
Godspell
The Producers

Hate isn't the right word, but I hardly ever listen to these.