FINDING NEVERLAND OBC recording — Page 2

Jordan Catalano wrote: "Maybe Harvey is keeping the lid very tight on it's existence until the day it comes out just so he can drive up sales of this wretched concept album. So whenever anyone goes to look for FINDING NEVERLAND, that's the only thing they see until the other is actually released."

That makes sense to me. Everything about FINDING NEVERLAND is so clearly about the bottom line that there's no room for artistry.

But perhaps we'll still be lucky. Maybe the good taste fairies will spirit away all evidence of the show to Neverland, and nobody will ever have to endure this show or be dumbed down by it again.

"I might be in the minority but i have a audio bootleg of the version from Leicester and I quite like the score. It's beautiful. I look forward to the new cast album though."

 At Jeremy Jordan's shows in SF this weekend, he sang Neverland from that version, it was the first I'd heard any songs from that original score, and while I like the current version of Neverland, I have to say, the Leicester Neverland was GORGEOUS, I liked it even better than what there is now, it was a beautiful song and I was thankful to have been exposed to it. Makes me curious to what the whole score is like, and just what it is that Harvey scrapped. 

Is the Leicester version of the song "Neverland" online (sung by anyone)? I'd love to hear it.

I admit to having a FN bias -- it is tied with The Audience as the show I enjoyed the most this season.  I am also looking forward to the OCR, but I decided to purchases he concept album anyway.

Much to my surprise, I love it.  I know that the songs are sung very differently from the way they are done in the show, but that adds to the fun.  I agree that a few of them are definitely overdone.  As an example, I would cite Matthew Morrison's; but I love the way it is done, nevertheless.

I could see several of these songs becoming hits, which would benefit the show, so I am all for the concept album.

I haven't seen the show yet or heard much of the music besides a couple of the songs but I am really looking forward to "When You're Feet Don't Touch the Ground" on the OBCR as I really enjoy Gary Barlow's performance of the song that they had used in commercials for the show and everything and can be found on you- tube.

I was also listening to SiriusXM to hear the cast recording and I was not impressed. Mathew's voice just does nothing for me. It lacks the passion and rawness that Jeremy's voice had. 

Why would they push it back when the show has already been open for a while?

That's the only reason I can think of. It must be selling relatively well and Harvey wants to milk it for as long as possible.

Yeeeeeeaaaaaaah, I didn't love the original score.

I was looking forward to buying it next week but I guess I will have to wait.

I am doing a lot of car traveling this summer (unusual for a Manhattan girl like me)  and there is nothing like a show album to pass the time.

It feels like this nearly month-long delay in releasing the OBC album has something to do with this other 'A-List Celebrity' album that Harvey Weinstein has been trying to push into everyone's faces. I've been waiting for nearly 2 months for the June 23 release date, so this is really disappointing. I couldn't care less about the other album.

While there might be bootlegs, there is no official recording of the ART cast. (To the best of my knowledge)

No one NEEDS any recording.  Lots of records push back release dates.

They said on the Facebook page a "big announcement" is coming June 30th... I wonder what they've got up their sleeve now.