First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording

I can't get it to work, either. It's almost as if they didn't upload the tracks but just created the article.
I hope it works soon because I'm excited for this album as well!!

I don't love the score, but I will absolutely be buying Alex Newell's "Mama Will Provide." It's one of the most thrilling Broadway vocal performances in a long time.

Updated On: 2/21/18 at 10:14 AM

It sounds incredible.

I love everything about this show and have been listening all day... the music sounds great, but is some of the balance off for anyone else? (I.e. in the beginning of "We Dance," the first "please Agwe, don't flood my garden" seems less sharp/clear than the other lines in that segment.) I'm going to assume that this is SoundCloud and/or my ear buds and/or the fact that I'm listening at work with people talking around me, and that it'll be great in the real thing that's released on Friday... but just curious if anyone else is noticing this? There were a couple of other spots that I felt like the balance was weirdly off. (Like, in the same song, the grands hommes singing "how fine our clothes are/how fast we drive/we dance at parties..." - is that meant to be "distant"? I don't remember that choice in the actual show.)

Not that this will prevent me from listening to it at all, haha. Still my favorite production in a long time.

A most Amazing recording of a real game-changing Production. Bravo to ALL!

The new orchestrations are beautiful. Some really nice new vocal layering.

I am not even fully though the playlist but I have lost count of how many times I gotten goosebumps. This recording is simply fantastic!

I agree Norm Lewis seemed a bit stronger than what I hear on this recording. Is it me or is Tamyra Gray a little bit more intense/darker in "Forever Yours" (Reprise) than the person on this recording? Maybe it was different in person.

Token grumpy-pants post for this thread: I wasn't blown away by the album. The cast sounds good, but I was hoping the new orchestrations would be more different, in an interesting way, compared to the originals. And it seems a little weird to me that the last part of the climactic Ti Moune's Choice scene wasn't recorded, as it was for the previous albums. I mentioned in the previews thread that I have reservations about how that scene ends, but like it or hate it, it's a pretty vital moment in the show as written.