Cast Recordings you regret buying

I do not like my Company 1995 cd aside from Boyd Gaines "Marry Me A Little" and the 2006 Sunday in the Park London revival. Worst orchestrations I could ever have heard befall such a gorgeous show.

By the way, are those getting used for the revival this Fall?

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OT, but I agree with C is for Company about the orchestrations. I don't think they're THAT bad, but they are a little slow for my taste.

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C is for Company, I agree about the 1995 Company recording. I hated it. I had my brother go in the store and say he received it as a gift and didn't like it, and then exchange it for Taboo lol I can't think of any others at the moment I regret buying though.

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I agree with '95 Company..."Marry Me a Little" is the only track I listen to from that CD on a regular basis.

Ditto for OBC of "Les Mis" and the London "Evita" (both the orginal and the new one...Elaina Roger sounds like shes screeching to get out some of the high notes in "A New Argentina", effectively ruining my favorite song in the show).

The latest CD I bought that I now regret is "Spring Awakening". Maybe the music in the context of the show does something, but on CD, it just came off as cliched and monotonous save for maybe two songs.

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Fiddler on the Roof (Alfred Molina revival)

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The Sound of Music (New London Recording)

I have well over 300 cast recordings, I enjoy them for better or worse. But in my 25 years of buying them, I have only returned one to the store simply because I hated it and that was Bright Lights Big City. I found nothing on this recording to draw me in. Bad subject matter, even worse music, and a complete waste of some wonderfully talented performers. And although I like the arrangements on the new Evita recording, the actors aren't capable of singing the score, and i do kinda regret adding it.

LA recording of SUNSET BOULEVARD
BROOKLYN
BOUNCE
MISS SAIGON -- the complete recording

The Complete Miss Saigon recording? HJow could anyone not love that?! Devotee?!?!


I have The Color Purple, I bought it the day after I saw the show. i didn't love the show, but I like he CD. I'll admit, I only listen to bits, I couldn't listen to the whole thing.

I also have the 1995 Company, and I like it, but then again, I've never heard any other recording of it. Getting Married Today is good.

And I don't mind the 2006 Sound of Music or Evita, both of which I have, but I prefer the older versions, and in the case of Evita, I prefer the film. Not sure about the Sound of Music.

Shows I have and never, ever listen to?

AIDA
CATS
GUYS AND DOLLS (Don't know why)
HAIRSPRAY (I listen to the Beginning and End, skip the rest)
HIGH SOCIETY
HONK!
SUNSET BLVD.

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JANE EYRE
WICKED (sorry, guys, but it's a thin little score saved by great big visuals)
The Nathan Lane FORUM (the original was fun, this one just tries too hard to be fun)
The Japan tour of FANTASTICKS

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Annie OBC. For some reason, my version has spots where the vocals just disappear into the ether, especially on Hard Knock Life. It's like the microphone for one of the orphans was off, so you can sort of hear it in the background as picked up by a a microphone that the actor wasn't singing into. Don't know if its my CD or the recording itself.

Dreamgirls OBC. I regretted it, because I'd hoped that it had restored full versions of the songs, rather than the truncated vinyl recording. But, it was the same as the vinyl.

CATS