Encores! A New Brain to get recording!

[Kad]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:17pm

"This new release will be a deluxe, two-disc recording that captures the 95-minute musical in its entirety. More than 15 minutes of previously unrecorded music (unheard on the original 1998 Off-Broadway cast album) will be included here for the first time."

A Feb. 5, 2016, release is expected

A New Brain, With Jonathan Groff, Will Get New Two-Disc Cast Album

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:20pm

Wow! Unexpected but exiting!

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:21pm

So random, but so great! Will definitely snag this.

[Cupid Boy2]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:22pm

I SCREAMED when I read this. I'm pre-ordering now. 

[Actriz2]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:42pm

Exciting! Hoping Little Shop and Wild Party (just for Pasquale's performance) get one too.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:54pm

OH MY GOD! YES!

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 3:54pm

Who's paying for it?

[Fantod]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 4:04pm

And yet the Paint Your Wagon one seems to be cancelled!?

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 4:18pm

"And yet the Paint Your Wagon one seems to be cancelled!?"

 

Wait. What? Where did you hear that?

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 4:19pm

They recorded the Paint Your Wagon one didn't they?

Either way, whichever albums get recorded and which ones don't is all about money. Somebody put up the money for this.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 4:23pm

I'm curious if they are going to update the licensed version to reflect the rewrites that are getting preserved here.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 4:43pm

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!!

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 4:48pm

I'm so excited!!!! 

[TerrenceIsTheMann]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 5:10pm

Incredible. I will be buying this ASAP.

[smidge]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 5:52pm

Great news! I missed 45 minutes of the performance thanks to a late bus. Now, at least, I can listen to the whole thing 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 8:39pm

Weird. I posted this a couple of weeks ago when I found out but it was deleted.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 9:37pm

neonlightsxo said: "Who's paying for it? "

 

The playbill article linked says: "Broadway producer and New York City Center board co-chair Stacey Mindich is funding the recording."

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 10:06pm

Jordan, are you really surprised? BWW is known for deleting threads that actually matter and keeping accounts like the pinto thing around without batting an eye.

I'm excited about this, not because I am fond of the music, but because I need more records featuring the wonderful Ana Gastayer in my life. I love that she got such great reviews for this and can't wait to listen to her rendition of "Mother's Gonna Make Things Fine" and "The Music Still Plays On." 

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 10/19/15 at 10:19pm

I'd assume Jordan's post was deleted because clearly they didn't want word out about it till the official announcement.

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 10/20/15 at 7:03am

What a nice surprise!

[StageStruckLad]

Posted: 10/20/15 at 9:34am

I hope PS Classics programs the CD so that the dialogue is on separate tracks and can easily be skipped. I love the score to this show (especially Jason Robert Brown's fantastic arrangement of "And They're Off"), but I doubt I'll want to hear the dialogue over and over.

Updated On: 10/20/15 at 09:34 AM

[Kad]

Posted: 10/20/15 at 9:57am

There is almost no dialogue in this show and there are no separate dialogue tracks indicated on the prelim tracklist.

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 10/20/15 at 2:22pm

Wow, I cannot wait.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 12/23/15 at 1:14am

I just pre ordered this and it's now coming out on February 5th, but I noticed that the description said that Christian Borle is featured on it.  I'm pretty sure that he wasn't in the Encores! production.  Does anyone know if he replaced Fogler on the recording? 

[gypsy101]

Posted: 12/23/15 at 1:56am

icecreambenjamin said: "I just pre ordered this and it's now coming out on February 5th, but I noticed that the description said that Christian Borle is featured on it.  I'm pretty sure that he wasn't in the Encores! production.  Does anyone know if he replaced Fogler on the recording? "

 

Hm, that's very strange. It does seem like Christian Borle will be playing Mr. Bungee on the recording (simply based on Dan Fogler's absence from the list). I didn't see the production, sadly, but I feel like I heard mixed opinions on Fogler's performance.