DEATH BECOMES HER Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread — Page 2

I love when cast albums include music like DBH’s Prelude and the staircase music, that would otherwise go unrecorded or easily on the cutting room floor.

Observation said: "TheatreFan4 said: "Spring release for a cast recording that is already recorded is eye rolling."

Except it wasn't already recorded?"

Well the tracks on this that were already released during previews definitely sound like the exact same recordings so...

I saw the show back in November and the disappointing thing for me was the music. I couldn't recall one song or should say not one song stayed with me.

I just finished listening to the cast recording from start to finish and sad to say, I still feel the same way. I thought I might appreciate it more by just listening to it.

That’s so interesting. I’ve loved the score from the first listen. I think it’s catchy, laugh-out loud-funny, and gives the performers ample opportunity to show off their comedic and vocal gifts. The only numbers that are skips for me are Michelle’s, but I imagine they’d be great too with a more charismatic performer.

I was telling my friend I feel like this score is simultaneously very catchy and also quite forgettable. What it does is enhance the experience in the theater because I do think they nailed down the right idea, but in listening to it on the album outside of some clever lines and great delivery, I don't necessarily find myself wanting to listen to any particular parts again, though maybe it'll grow on me more.

I think it's a very enjoyable album and it's nice to be able to sit with the score and the adaptation choices.

I will say, though, that the second act is much more thin musically than I remembered- there's really only 4 full-length numbers.

I'm just not seeing enough love for 'Falling Apart'. I think I like it more than 'For the Gaze'.

I wish I felt differently, but I find a lot of the score frustrating. They're having great fun with every musical theatre trope, and while some of it lands, most feels like a retread of something that was once much better written by composers a bit more talented. It's like David Yazbek washed through a couple of times. Can't blame the stars -- they sound great, and everything they can. But with so, so, so many patter/list/plot heavy songs they really don't get to show more than one color. The problem is probably the source material -- it's a shallow comedy about shallow people wanting shallow things. There's nothing to grab on to -- it just has to keep moving so you don't think and then hit the next LAUGH!

BossBroadway said: "I really love this cast album and score. I think it serves the source material very well; it was never intended to be a score like a Sondheim or JRB musical. We need musicals like this. It's fun, campy, and gay, and it sounds amazing when listening through the car speakers."

Couldn’t agree more. I think it’s such a delight of a score and I love this album.