Dogfight Cast Recording?

[broadwayguy20012]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 1:00am

Just saw the show tonight. Great score. Really catchy. Beautiful ballads and just all-around solid, tight guy songs with amazing harmonies! (how often does THAT happen these days?...) Just wondering if there has been any talk of a cast recording for the show? Perhaps Sh-K-Boom if you're listening...

[SomeoneInThisDress]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 3:42pm

It's more of a possibility if it transfers after 2nd Stage.

Any news on that??

[broadwayguy20012]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 4:57pm

I haven't officially "heard" anything as of yet regarding a transfer. I think it is way too early to tell at this point. But the audience last night was very vocal about the show and LOVED it by all accounts. I loved it myself and am really hoping for a life for the show after 2nd Stage and to that end, a recording of some sort.

[SomeoneInThisDress]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 5:17pm

I'm seeing it on the 3rd and cannot wait! :)

[Polka Dot2]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 8:55pm

I saw it last night and loved it. So refreshing and honest. I hope it has life after its run at Second Stage.

[broadwayguy20012]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 10:16pm

Amen Polka! I agree 100%.

[Bwaydide92]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 10:40pm

If it transfers it will most likely get a cast recording. Probably not going to happen if it dies after 2nd Stage, but that doesn't seem likely.

[broadwayguy20012]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 10:52pm

Right.

[perfectliar]

Posted: 6/30/12 at 11:31pm

It's always possible... Vanities got a recording even though it never transferred after 2ST.

[mjroberts972]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 12:17am

I will die if "Pretty Funny" is professionally recorded

[Wynbish]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 12:23am

Leslie Kritzer's "Pretty Funny"

[deck925]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 3:07pm

I saw the matinee yesterday, and as I bought the poster asked if there was any talk of it having life after this run. I'm not sure who it was that I spoke to, but he basically said it was too early to tell.

I hope the audiences continue to love it, because mine sure did as well. I would love to see it have a life, and a cast recording after this. Lindsay Mendez was heartbreaking during "Pretty Funny" I hope a recording of her pops up soon because it was beautiful. The male songs are also wonderful, I agree with all that was said above!

[AGermano]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 4:41pm

Hey deck, you mentioned that you purchased the poster at the show yesterday? I was at the first preview and they weren't selling anything but do they have official merchandise now? Any idea of what else they are selling/prices?
Thanks :)

[deck925]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 5:37pm

I just went to where they were selling drinks and stuff, noticed they had a poster out there advertising the show, and asked the girl behind the counter if they were selling them. It was only ten dollars, not sure if they had any other merchandise!

[AGermano]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 6:16pm

Good to know, thanks!

[mjroberts972]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 11:28pm

Kinda off topic but has anyone tried getting student rush tickets for this? What time should I go to the theatre?

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 7/1/12 at 11:36pm

STudent rush is sold an hour before. Depending upon availability. If they are sold out, there is no rush. If you get there when they start selling you should be fine.

[deck925]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 12:58pm

mjroberts I got there maybe 10-15 minutes before rush started and was the third person in line, the two girls ahead of me walked in only a few minutes before me.

[AGermano]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 1:01pm

Where were your seats?

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 1:31pm

For everyone wondering about the student rush, the seats appear to not really be in the theatre at first. They are stools behind the box seats off to the side. Once the show is about to begin, we were able to move up behind the lower chairs and the view was fairly good. Most of the action happens stage left or center so you don't really miss much. The show was sold out tonight so hopes of moving were dashed. I'm not sure if there are other rush tickets aside from the stools (of which there were about six).

[deck925]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 1:49pm

I was in Row D to the left, they were excellent seats!

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 7/2/12 at 2:14pm

I saw the show over the weekend, and as much as I wanted to love it, I didn't.

The film is an incredibly hard piece to musicalize because of how incredibly mean spirited the central male characters are. Because of that, whenever the action is focused on them (which is far too often,) it's virtually impossible to get into the show. The tunes are always catchy, but it can't distract you from the horrible nature of what they're conveying, and that's a problem. When the attention shifts to Birdlace and Rose and the complexities of their relationship, mostly in the second act, it's beautiful and engaging and heartfelt and everything the rest of the show isn't. Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena are giving honest, well-rounded performances, and I left the theater wishing there'd been no other moments to take me away from them.

I'm interested to see how the show develops over previews, because I found it to be screaming to be trimmed to two hours with no intermission. The group of male friends had the same song that covered the same ground three of four times alone, and Annaleigh Ashford's number in the first act is almost unlistenable. They also really need to overhaul the set and the lighting, because I was shocked at how low grade both were, especially for Second Stage.

There's lots of promise there, but I didn't find it to be anywhere near fully realized.

[DayOfTheShow_Yall]

Posted: 7/3/12 at 5:08pm

I completely agree with you, somethingwicked, and am glad you so eloquently put in to words what I was having difficulty verbalizing.

It wasn't that I had a "bad" time, either... a lot of the music WAS very catchy, touching and memorable and the show was definitely watchable with polished performances that masked what irked me.

The biggest qualm I had with the show was the source material and what it was saying, or trying to say. I felt like I was asked to care about what happens to someone (not to mention his buddies)in the last 20 minutes of the show, when the whole first act and most of the second act, our protagonists were fairly terrible people with barely hinted at inner-justifications. I'm not saying everyone has to have a direct moral compass, but if people are going to behave that way so prominently in the scope of a stage piece it would serve the drama and conflict to expound on the reasons why, so the audience can learn what we as a society have done to create, foster, and perpetuate that behavior.

The subject matter was uncomfortable in how it objectified women, but then the piece wasn't even really about that which made it more offensive. As an audience member in the 21st century I wanted THAT to be explored.

Again, they barely hinted at it being something that their fathers and their grandfathers did, and maybe I would have been more invested if it explored further the passing down of misogyny and need to be a hero, and what it means to "be a man," but it didn't. It was just sort of a suggestion of being there in the background over a thin, for want of a better term, "love story."

This is also going to be a very strange back-handed compliment, but perhaps the actor playing Birdlace is almost too (universally) good looking? Maybe the relationship between the two leads and overall piece would be more successful and ironic if the male lead was more or less an average looking guy?

I don't know, these are just rambling thoughts... One opinion out of hundreds, but hey, a new musical made me think beyond leaving the theatre doors, so, kudos.

Updated On: 7/3/12 at 05:08 PM

[wicked1492]

Posted: 10/1/12 at 10:01am

I seriously still can't stop thinking about those beautiful, rich chords and harmonies and would love to hear them again. Any news about DOGFIGHT's future or a recording?

[newintown]

Posted: 10/1/12 at 10:27am

I thought the score had nice music, but I didn't care for the lyrics or script. Lots of clichés and banalities, fake "butchness," lack of subtlety.