Dracula CD Delayed Again

Only by a few days, according to the Global Vision newsletter....

3. "DRACULA, The Musical - The Concept Recording" is expected to ship on
April 18, 2006. Starring James Barbour, Kate Shindle, Lauren Kennedy, Rob
Evan, Euan Morton and Norm Lewis.

"throwing their money out the window?"

Um actaully if you look at amazon.com sales this cd is selling and its not even released yet.

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This cd will turn a profit. There's very little question. The cd was done in Jeremy's studio, to keep costs down. The show is selling out every night in Swizz, about to open in Asia and another production in Europe.

Also, its a cd not a broadway show. It doesnt matter how long it takes to sell cds. The fact that they are selling is whats important.

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This final delay was all of 2 weeks. If that is all it takes to back you out of buying a cd. That's not very much.

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While you may be waiting a long time for the 2 cd set of capeman. Dracual concept is being sold and is in the finished state, just waiting KOCH records to release it.

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I'll believe it when I see it. I think the world can go a few minutes without another WIldhorn cd.

Updated On: 2/27/06 at 05:57 PM

Look guys...

We're a startup... we could have bootstrapped this, and had it on the street a year ago... instead, we're thinking long-term, and globally. We have aligned ourselves with the LARGEST independent media distributor in the world. These guys know what they're doing. Anyone can get their CD sold by Amazon, but it takes a machine to get the records into stores, worldwide, and that is what Koch does.

With that said, maybe we shouldn't have shared the target release dates -- we were pretty firm on April 4, there was a minor issue that delayed Jekyll by one day, and since we want to roll both CDs out on the same day, that kicked us back 2 weeks. This is how it works with the big boys.

If you're looking to beat us up for this, in the future, we can ship then announce, but then you'll be screaming at us because you didn't see it coming.

There are MANY people working hard to get this puppy shipping -- my work has been done on this for a long time...

In our e-blast, we stated, "expected to ship" -- yes, I left a hole in case something happens.

The difference between a deadline for a product such as a CD, with NO forced deadline, means you can take your time to get it right... we do not have to rush it out for an arbitrary deadline set by "the man". When we do shows, at 8pm, the people will be there, you better be ready... and if not, you do your best... we don't have to do our best... we can wait and make it right.

How many of you are performers who have gone on stage under-prepared for an opening because you had to? You'd be lying if you didn't admit to it.... wouldn't it be nice to get an extra month of rehearsal or tech?

In our case, we could have simply rushed it out, but instead, we're letting the experts in distribution do their job. It doesn't effect us, except for a little reputation smear on the promised date. I will hope that most of you will get over it once the CD ships.

We're very proud of the music and the performances.

Can't wait for everyone to hear it!

Thanks,

Jeremy
http://www.globalvisionrecords.com/

>> DRACULA was a mess.

That's part of the reason we made this recording.

Frank didn't get what he wanted from the bway production, so we went and recorded the music, with a new creative team, from scratch.

This recording has NOTHING in common with the broadway production... please don't forget that!


http://www.globalvisionrecords.com/

Are there really only 15 tracks on this CD? I am not sure if the clips are just part of the songs or represent the full CD.

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He could not afford to make a recording with the original cast due to restrictive union rules. He had no choice. As much as I wanted a recording of the show with the original cast, I knew it could not happen. He had no choice but to do it this way. He is protecting his work & this was the only way to do it. The critics will not give him a fair shake so he had go another route
He had to do what was best for him which I understand

Actors can work again but composers like Frank must do what they have to to survive

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That is quite simply nonsense, Roxy. Somehow others manage to do it. Blaming the unions is simply an easy excuse. And a poor one. And he certainly could have bypassed the unions and still used the original cast if he'd wanted to. He simply had to wait til the show was closed. Seeing as the CD still isn't out yet, I think he might have been able to manage that.

And to what do you attribute Wildhorn's deliberately leading the cast to believe that they were doing the recording, while all the while he was planning this "concept" album? Auditioning other actors. WHILE THE SHOW WAS STILL RUNNING. Behind the casts' backs. I can assure you this is true. They only found out because some else told them. This was poorly, poorly handled. The actors were badly treated. And what do the critics have to do with this?

Updated On: 2/27/06 at 07:45 PM

Can't wait for this.

Uh oh.

Anyway, in short:

Am I unhappy this recording doesn't have the original cast? Yes (minus one person - thanks for Norm!)
Am I unhappy with the track list? Yes.
Am I unhappy with the orchestrations? Can't tell. But as of now, No.
Am I unhappy they swear this is completely different than the Broadway show, yet they are using the same logo? HEH...YES.

I wanted a recording of the show, not just the music. And you know there IS a difference.

But, alas, I will buy the recording not to support anyone - but because I do like the show.

Like I said. Collectible.

And, if you cannot tell, I am holding back quite a few things I would like to say - such as no wonder Wildhorn is usually so poorly received. He is passionate about what he does, but not the execution. Every time it's "Let's do something different." No, Frank, people just didn't like the show. But there ARE those of us who did. And who still do. And by the choices made in creating this CD, it is obvious those people were not important.

Oops, I slipped.

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Updated On: 2/27/06 at 10:44 PM