Encores Kismet Recording
Encores Kismet Recording
#0Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/22/06 at 5:36pmI just spoke to someone at Encores and was told that a record company has approached them to record Kismet. Nothing is final but it is possible! Yeay!!!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/22/06 at 8:15pmWouldn't that be great? I'd love to have a recording of Mazzie's and Stokes' vocalizing in this one. Musically it was one of the finest evenings I've had in the theater in a long time.
#2re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/22/06 at 8:32pm
Except we don't need another KISMET recording.
There is already the OBC (SONY); the film Soundtrack (Rhino); Studio Cast with Robert Merrill & the Mantovani Orchestra (London); the 1965 Lincoln Center Revival (RCA); the 2 CD studio cast set (TER/JAY) and the 1991 studio cast with Sam Ramey (Sony.) As they are all fairly complete and well sung versions we hardly need anoter one!
Especially when there are so many shows that have never been recorded.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#3re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/22/06 at 9:28pmThey haven't recorded City Center Albums in a while, so maybe this is a good thing.
#4re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/22/06 at 10:32pmWell for someone who had a ticket and wasn't unable to attend due to the snow storm, it would be a dream come true!!!
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#5re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/23/06 at 12:06amI'd buy it! We really haven't had a recent album of this score. I don't rate the TER/JAY CD very highly. I'd would really love to hear this recorded with all the technical advances we now have. The Lincoln Centre Revival was not recorded well.
#6re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/23/06 at 3:33am
I suppose it depends on one's definition of "recent." I still think of the Sony studio cast with Sam Ramey as "recent" even thoigh it came out in Dec 1991! It is an all-Digital recording with excellent sound and even includes "My Magic Lamp" (a cut song) and "Bored" which was written for the movie but is now often included in stage productions.
The RCA disc of the Lincoln Centre revival doesd have a rather harsh sound (so did the LP editions.) but it does offer a stereo recording of Alfred Drake in the role. Still I prefer Columbia's mono original.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#7re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/23/06 at 9:26amAs long as they cast someone else as Marsinah (ANYONE else). I liked the combination of Mazzie and Stokes, though - they sounded great.
#8re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/23/06 at 10:53am
It's been too long since Stokes has been on an album of any kind (Man of LaMancha last, right?) For that alone it's worth buying!
showbiz
Understudy Joined: 7/27/05
#9re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/23/06 at 10:59amThat is great news! I saw the show twice and loved it. Especially loved Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marcy Harriell, two of Broadway's finest.
#10re: Encores Kismet Recording
Posted: 2/23/06 at 11:05pmI'd love to be able to hear it. I was stuck in San Francisco that weekend because of the blizzard and couldn't get back to see it. Luckily, the ticket was stuck to my refrigerator so I gave it to my sister as a thank-you for walking the dog. She enjoyed it but not as much as I would've. I love the score
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