Douglas Sills & Music in the Air

Broadway.com posted a clip of the cast of Music in the Air. Douglas Sills introduces it and we get to hear a bit of him singing w/ Kristin Chenoweth. He, along with the rest of the cast, sound AMAZING! :]

http://www.broadway.com/Broadway-com-VIDEO-ON-DEMAND-In-Rehearsal/broadway_information_html/5015933

This is the one of the most beautiful scores in the history of music.

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Old-fashioned? Okay. Creaky? Music in the Air is one of Kern's melodic masterpieces and it will be a joy to hear the entire score once again. AND, the entire score as written in 1932, not the 1952 revision. One of the most beautiful songs in the score, And Love Was Born, was dropped in the revival and it will be wonderful to hear it again. It is a major shame that this show never had a full length recording (ditto Cat and the Fiddle, another Kern gem). The Jane Pickens version just doesn't cut it at all and the radio transciption from the early 1950s is not in good sound, truncates the score and is indifferently sung. Would that this would be one of the Encores! productions that got a recording.

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I've been a bit 'off' Kristin since she went all squeaky and "Hollywood" in recent years - but, wow..that clip of her singing "The Song is You" made me fall in love with her all over again.

The is the one ENCORES! I've been most looking forward to.

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"Would that this would be one of the Encores! productions that got a recording."

Is there any chance of it? I'd be first in line!

Just saw the clip -- Chenowith really surprised me (favorably). When she goes into The Song is You, she's right on target and sounds like the diva she's playing. I can't wait for this!!!!!

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My word, this needs to be recorded for CD! It's a beautiful, historic score that has yet to be fully or properly documented on disc and, good God, what a cast!

Anyone seen any info on a possible recording? I'm thinking about contacting PS Classics, Ghostlight, and DRG to see if any of them have looked into it.

No, they've been recorded onto stone slabs and used as the Ten Commandments.

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