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Posted: 5/25/06 at 12:46pm
With the chance that the just-recorded LESTAT will not be released, I got to thinking about other cast recordings that have never seen the light of day.
BONANZA BOUND - recorded by RCA Victor while playing a pre-Broadway tour in 1947. The show folded on the road and RCA never released the records. Many years later, Box Office Records (a bootleg label) issued the sides on Lp.
BITTER SWEET - as part of a series of studio cast recordings onf previously un-recorded scores in the early 1950s, Goddard Lieberson at Columbia Records produced an album of this Noel Coward score. Coward was reportedly unhappy with the result and the album has never been released.
ROSE MARIE - In the early 1980s Smithsonian issued a complete recording of Victor Herbert's NAUGHTY MARIETTA using the original score and orchestrations. As a follow-up they recorded anotrher old operetta, Friml's ROSE MARIE. The recording was completed before a chnage in management resulted in cancellation of the whole project and the album was never issued.
CAPEMAN - Paul Simon was unhappy when the Broadway community did not recieve his show enthusiastically, and has refused to allow teh cast album to be released. Copies were sent to Tony voters (many of whom promptly sold them on E-bay for great profit.)
ROMANCIN' THE ONE I LOVE - this musical comedy based on TAMING OF THE SHREW (updated to the late 1930s) has had a few regional stagings (including Toronto in 2000.) A studio cat album was made by the authors and is sometimes sold at performances, but has never been commercially issued. (The show is now offered under the title CRAZY LOVE.)
Anyone know of others?
BONANZA BOUND - recorded by RCA Victor while playing a pre-Broadway tour in 1947. The show folded on the road and RCA never released the records. Many years later, Box Office Records (a bootleg label) issued the sides on Lp.
BITTER SWEET - as part of a series of studio cast recordings onf previously un-recorded scores in the early 1950s, Goddard Lieberson at Columbia Records produced an album of this Noel Coward score. Coward was reportedly unhappy with the result and the album has never been released.
ROSE MARIE - In the early 1980s Smithsonian issued a complete recording of Victor Herbert's NAUGHTY MARIETTA using the original score and orchestrations. As a follow-up they recorded anotrher old operetta, Friml's ROSE MARIE. The recording was completed before a chnage in management resulted in cancellation of the whole project and the album was never issued.
CAPEMAN - Paul Simon was unhappy when the Broadway community did not recieve his show enthusiastically, and has refused to allow teh cast album to be released. Copies were sent to Tony voters (many of whom promptly sold them on E-bay for great profit.)
ROMANCIN' THE ONE I LOVE - this musical comedy based on TAMING OF THE SHREW (updated to the late 1930s) has had a few regional stagings (including Toronto in 2000.) A studio cat album was made by the authors and is sometimes sold at performances, but has never been commercially issued. (The show is now offered under the title CRAZY LOVE.)
Anyone know of others?
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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