No "Jerry Springer" because I'm using my real name and only speaking about actual, factual events.
Ghostlight2: I challenge you to post the facts, not rumor or innuendo, using your real name.
You can't, as you don't know them.
Frank and his collaborators were working around the clock trying to get them an OBC -- but every effort failed.
Every effort was made -- every record company refused, without underwriting by the producers. The producers refused to participate financially (use marketing budget to pay for cast recording).
Here are some facts:
1. While in previews, Frank started re-writing with his collaborators, Don Black and Christopher Hampton. These new songs were never put in.
2. On Sept. 13, Frank came over to my studio and we started demo-ing the new songs that he wrote for the show, We did about 8 days of work on the new songs (on and off). He took these demos to the producers and director... unfortunately, they refused to put the new songs in the show.
3. About this same time period, Frank asked me to submit a budget for the OBC -- as he was trying to get a record company to release it, and he was lobbying the producers to fund it.
4. When it was very clear that the producers would have nothing to do with funding the OBC, the AUTHORS had to consider their options... they had the rights to record the music, without the production.... the European producer, Stage Holding, agreed to buy the first 10,000 copies of a concept recording, to give away, thinking it would help the show and get it through the winter...
If Frank is guilty of anything, it is being an optimist... for those of you who know him, he is one of the most optimistic people you will ever meet. He fully expects things to work. He expects people to follow through. He doesn't know the word "can't" and he is always supportive of his team... if he implied to a cast member that there would be an OBC, it was because he really thought he could pull it off. When the money simply wasn't there, and NOT A SINGLE RECORD COMPANY was interested in the product, he did what any author would do -- along with his collaborators, they found a way to get their work recorded.
Was the cast upset? Yeah... I would be too... but the "blame" cannot be directed at the authors -- they're doing what they have to do. The authors have every right to record what they want and how they want it, and to use the recording to keep the health of their copyright going.
The producers and director walked away from this show... but the authors did not. The new production in Switzerland last year was an overwhelming success (no flying, addition of the new songs, etc...) - and there are new productions slated for Asia and Europe.
Our recording really has little to do with Broadway -- and more to do with Frank's vision of the score... without the constraints of the physical production - and with the new songs the author's wrote...
Ghostlight2: if you are going to call me a liar in public, you better have your facts straight. I was in the middle of this, and I'm putting my reputation on the line. If you were in the middle of this, then speak up -- who are you? If you weren't in the middle of this, what gives you the right to fabricate a story?
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