Ever experience this?

[Demitri2]

Ever experience this?#1

Posted: 4/19/09 at 5:19pm

Seen SHREK twice and enjoyed the musical numbers which I felt were lively and serviceable. Listening to the CD now I find I really don't care for the score at all outside the show. Usually due to a poor book, I've attended many shows I haven't enjoyed live yet have cherished the musical scores afterwards. For me SHREK is just the opposite. So my question is..."What musical scores have you enjoyed hearing in the theatre yet have no fondness for the original cast recording? The closest I can come up with is "Wicked" yet in that case I didn't care for the score PERIOD.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Ever experience this?#2

Posted: 4/19/09 at 5:29pm

I don't like to listen to a lot of songs from The Music Man on their own at all, but I love the musical as a whole.

And well, I wouldn't say NO fondness, but there are few songs from Broadway version "The Lion King" that I like to listen to on their own, just because it's such a visual show. I loved seeing the show, but some of the numbers drag when I'm simply listening to them.

And in The Litte Mermaid, "Les Poissons" was my favorite number in the theatre, but my least favorite number on the disc.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[kchenofan]

re: Ever experience this?#2

Posted: 4/19/09 at 5:32pm

I know exactly what you're saying about "Les Poissons". I can't listen to "One Step Closer" on its own either.

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[little_sally]

re: Ever experience this?#3

Posted: 4/19/09 at 6:29pm

Spamalot

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[scott68]

re: Ever experience this?#4

Posted: 4/19/09 at 6:48pm

For me, the Doyle Sweeney Todd revival. Not because of the score itself, of course, but because the cast recording is so incredibly badly produced that I find it unlistenable.

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[madbrian]

re: Ever experience this?#5

Posted: 4/19/09 at 6:56pm

The Color Purple, and to a lesser extent, Spelling Bee.

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[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Ever experience this?#6

Posted: 4/19/09 at 7:13pm

I agree to some extent with both little_sally and Not-Scott. There are songs from both that I love to listen to on their own, but I don't like the recordings as much as I thought I would.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[philly03]

re: Ever experience this?#7

Posted: 4/19/09 at 7:18pm

I agree with the majority of Spamalot. To a much lesser extent: EVITA. It's just such a spectacle IMO once you see it live to hear it and see it...(if it's done well!). The dancing, the direction, etc.!

[millie_dillmount]

re: Ever experience this?#8

Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:06pm

I like the score to Spelling Bee better if I see it rather than just listening to it on CD.

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[LiveUnscripted]

re: Ever experience this?#9

Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:27pm

I agree with The Color Purple. And Xanadu. The cast recording is just a little too cooky to listen to on its own.

"That was the most offensive thing I've seen in 20 years of teaching. And that includes an elementary school production of Hair." -Glee

[little_sally]

re: Ever experience this?#10

Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:33pm

I agree with Xanadu. Other than a few songs, I just can't listen to it.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[COOOOLkid]

re: Ever experience this?#11

Posted: 4/20/09 at 6:10am

Billy Elliot
Titanic
Caroline, or Change

"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" -Family Guy

[KirbyCat]

re: Ever experience this?#12

Posted: 4/20/09 at 6:14am

Yeah, for me, it truly has to be Billy Elliot. Loved it in the theater, but listening to it at home, it has almost a lackluster score.

[bwaylvsong]

re: Ever experience this?#13

Posted: 4/20/09 at 10:26am

I actually think the Spamalot recording is superior to the show.