DEATH BECOMES HER Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread- Page 2

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 11:34am

Don't Say I Didn't Warn You is Michelle's best number, that and Tell Me Ernest are my favorites in the score

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 1:33pm

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. 

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 2:00pm

jacobsnchz14 said: "I love whencast albums include music like DBH’s Prelude and the staircase music, that would otherwise go unrecorded or easily on the cutting room floor."

This. Shame on Great Gatsby for not including their delightful Prelude/Overture music.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 7:28pm

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...

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 8:37pm

TheatreFan4 said: "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..."

  According to the booklet:

RECORDED AT The DiMenna Center for Classical Music on September 20 & 21, 2024 and January 13, 2025. Recording services provided by Audiosmith Digital Solutions, New York, NY

[Huss417]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 8:49pm

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.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/17/25 at 9:04pm

I feel similarly. I wish the material was as strong as the performances.

[NOWaWarning]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 11:35am

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. 

[DaveyG]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 11:45am

CATSNYrevival said: "I feel similarly. I wish the material was as strong as the performances."

Same. Two decent tunes and the rest just meanders. Disappointing. 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 12:10pm

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.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 12:42pm

I’ve listen to it twice, and I find it quite enjoyable. 

[Kad]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 1:29pm

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.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 2:01pm

The big numbers in this show are what holds it up. There's really only about four songs in this show I can listen to over and over (For The Gaze, Don't Say, Alive Forever and Perfection).

[RW3]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 3:21pm

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

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 4:21pm

RW3 said: "I'm just not seeing enough love for 'Falling Apart'. I think I like it more than 'For the Gaze'."

That song is the reason I've been waiting for the cast recording, especially since the...ahem, available recording from the Chicago run was an early version without the "Wrinkled, wrinkled little star..." section. That song, "That Was Then, This is Now," and "Let's Run Away Together" are the ones I've had on repeat.

I will say I do find the recording a little underwhelming. At first I thought it was because I was so used to the way they perform so many of the lines and bits live that the different ways they do many of them on the recording feel "off"...but I'm not sure that's entirely it. I do think the choices of which lines of dialogue to include and which aren't aren't always effective (the "Tell Me Ernest" (Reprise) is one example; the ending feels a lot more abrupt without her full bit; also, the "Chance" bit in "Falling Apart"). Maybe it will grow on me.

[BroadwayBen]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 6:08pm

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]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 6:32pm

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. 

[ElephantLoveMedley]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 6:54pm

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. 

[Kad]

Posted: 4/18/25 at 8:31pm

BroadwayBen said: "There's nothing to grab on to -- it just has to keep moving so you don't think and then hit the next LAUGH!"

I don't know- that seems like a feature for a very silly comedy, not a bug. The show lends with its leading ladies literally laughing the idea of a deeper lesson off the stage.

Updated On: 4/18/25 at 08:31 PM