Posted: 9/24/17 at 3:13pm
I had to ask.
I personally love the 2011 recording. Though others may disagree, Sutton was a fantastic Reno. Plus the recording sound was more modern and clear.
Updated On: 9/24/17 at 03:13 PM
Posted: 9/24/17 at 3:35pm
Patti.
The 2011 album sounds like it was recorded in a shoe box. Also, Foster has the most grating voice that I've ever heard in my whole life.
Posted: 9/24/17 at 3:36pm
Still love the off-Broadway recording from 1962 with the inimitable Eileen Rodgers and the young Hal Linden. As every production screws around with the original Cole Porter score, it hardly matters. Not even sure what was in the original score...
Posted: 9/24/17 at 4:00pm
jayinchelsea said: "Still love the off-Broadway recording from 1962 with the inimitable Eileen Rodgers and the young Hal Linden. As every production screws around with the original Cole Porter score, it hardly matters. Not even sure what was in the original score..."
It's irritating that they keep switching songs in and out of the show. It makes it hard to keep track of who sings what and where a song's placement goes.
Posted: 9/24/17 at 5:21pm
The 1987/Lupone version, by far, with the 1989 London/Paige recording a close second. The 2011 one is so dry and arid, I listened to it once, and put it on the shelf, never to be heard again. The studio recording of the original score is interesting, but a little polite - not quite the loud, jazzy sound as we're used to hearing it. There's a 2003 London recording with John Barrowman that is also quite good. I do enjoy the performances on the 1962 Off-Broadway production, especially Eileen Rodgers, but those orchestrations - "Boom clunk! You're the top! Ba-dunk, ba-dunk. Honk, braaap! You're the Coliseum!" - are the pits.
Regarding changes to the score, the 1962 Off-Broadway version is the production that played pretty fast and loose, with numerous interpolations from other Porter shows. The 1987 version restored five of the original songs - "There's No Cure Like Travel," "They'll Always Be a Lady Fair," "The Gypsy In Me," "Buddy Beware" and the cut "East to Love" - although in some cases, they were given to different characters. The 1987 version also retains "Friendship" and "It's Delovely," added to the score in the 1962 version.
Updated On: 9/24/17 at 05:21 PM
Posted: 10/5/17 at 11:43pm
hi OP, as the resident cole porter nut on this board, I have listened to all of the known recordings including the surviving transferred from Ethel Merman and some OBC cast members.
I like the 1962 recording and performances a lot, and I enjoy patti's 1987 turn, and the london cast revival of 1988 is great, and the 2003 london revival is pretty good. I have to agree with you that song for song the performances and lively 2011 orchestrations of the 2011 revival keep bringing me back over and over. I admit some bias having seen the 2011 cast.....
rank
2011 bway obc
1962 off bway
1988 london
1987 bway patti l
2003 london
1934 recordings from obc
