Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
kissynose
Understudy Joined: 10/1/08
#1Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/4/08 at 11:39pm
Anyone else out there love a cast album of a show you hated?
I would have to say:
South Pacific
Sweet smell of Success
Curtains
Aida
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#2re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/4/08 at 11:40pmRENT
kissynose
Understudy Joined: 10/1/08
#2re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/4/08 at 11:42pmI have to add Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#3re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/4/08 at 11:58pmI hate the Wicked OBCR but I love the show. Oh wait I think I got that backwards.
bwayfan9
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/08
#4re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/5/08 at 12:03amno one listens to cast recordings to shows they don't like
#6re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/5/08 at 12:10amCOLOR PURPLE!!!
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#7re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/5/08 at 12:18ambwayfan9, I do.
kissynose
Understudy Joined: 10/1/08
#9re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/5/08 at 7:12am
Well, I saw 'Marguerite' but would never choose to see it again. But as most of the problems were with the book and the melodrama and the flinging paper around, and the score was the stand-out part, I would definitely listen to the cast recording over and over again.
MamasDoin'Fine
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/08
#10re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/5/08 at 7:16am
Oh yes they do! Almost every day!
Weez gives a classic example ('Maruerite'), great to listen to but not nice to see!
#11re: Cast albums you love..from shows you hate
Posted: 10/5/08 at 8:06am
I liked several of the songs from the Wicked cast recording (especially the opening number, "What Is This Feeling," "Dancing Through Life," and "Thank Goodness"). But I was really disappointed when I saw the show, because I thought it would be amazing based on what I'd heard. The script was really annoying, and the characters behaved in strange, illogical ways, and then there was all that stuff about animals.
Then there are two shows that have it the other way around-- shows where I liked the live show but didn't like the cast recording. One is "Hairspray" (I have issues with some of the leads' vocals) and the other is "The Lion King" (still terrific, but it's such a visual show that just listening to the recording is missing something).
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