Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Fun Home will receive updated cast album
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 12:54pm
Michael Cerveris just posted on his Facebook page that he is at Avatar recording new sections for an updated Fun Home CD.
Cupid Boy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#2Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 1:02pm
Seems kind of unnecessary (the Off-Broadway recording is perfect, minimal changes have been made & most of the principle cast is the same), but I'm all for it! Another recording of an amazing show.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#3Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 1:03pm
Well, this is a nice surprise. If nothing else, the cover art will be better!
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#4Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 1:04pm
Fantastic News!
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
#5Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 1:06pm
What changes have been made? The only ones I noticed Wednesday night were "Al for Short" being replaced with dialog & a few sung lines and "Maps" getting a revised half-verse.
My avatar = A screencap from Avatar, arguably the greatest animated show of all
#6Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 1:35pm
Personal preferences aside, Emily Skeggs would now have her voice as Medium Alison instead of Alexandra Socha in the off-broadway album. For a show that's made it to broadway, I think that in itself is a reason for a new album.
Kudos to the team who made it happen!
AngInFL79
Understudy Joined: 1/16/08
#7Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 1:37pm
This is fantastic! I currently cannot stop listening to the cast album they have out now.
Anyone else also think maybe this is something they thought of that will put them in the running for possible Grammy contention next year?
#8Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:17pm
I'm not surprised since PSClassics did the same thing with Grey Gardens. Hopefully they're just recording a few new tracks and not an entirely new album. That money would be better spent marketing this thing.
I doubt a Grammy is even on their radar. That will likely go to the Finding Neverland concept album given the voters usual favoritism toward names they recognize outside of the Broadway community.
#9Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:23pm
Do concept albums count as cast albums by Grammy rules?
Hrmm--I kinda the that this means losing Al For Short (though I'll have both CDs so I guess I don't care.) Maybe it could be included as a bonus--it's short and pretty self contained.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#10Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:23pm
Happy for them, but they announce a second album for Fun Home before a first for The Visit!? :)
#11Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:25pm
And they are milking this (good for them)
From PS's website...
"Fun Home
Original Cast Recording
Only 20 units left! And then?"
#12Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:34pm
I remember when I bought the Grey Gardens Broadway cast album they sent along a copy of the Off-Broadway cast album as well. I think it was an additional five dollars for both.
#13Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:38pm
The only musical I can think of that's done this sort of thing where they record the new stuff is Grey Gardens, but those two albums have very different things and the new album made sense for posterity. From what I've heard, not much is different from the original production, but I guess they might as well get theirs while they can. Now I just want a recording of The Visit!
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#14Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:42pm
And Doctor Zhivago. I love Fun Home but if they get two cast albums and The Visit and Doctor Zhivago go unrecorded I'll be a little disappointed.
#15Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 2:49pm
"And Doctor Zhivago. I love Fun Home but if they get two cast albums and The Visit and Doctor Zhivago go unrecorded I'll be a little disappointed. "
I don't think there's a possibility of The Visit not being recorded. Between K&E and Chita, it's a sure thing. It's just a matter of when and who's recording it
#16Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 6:36pm
Someone still has to pay, and given the grosses I wonder if they would use money budgeted for a recording to keep the show open (if that's even a thing). Personally, I always think it's better to spend the money on a recording because the recording will keep the show alive in future, not an extra couple of weeks on Broadway.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#17Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 9:32pm
The Visit will in all likelihood be Kander & Ebb's final new Broadway show since from what I've heard (the demo), All About Us AKA The Skin of Our Teeth is not very good. I can't imagine them not recording it. I'm less worried about them recording Dr. Zhivago and It Shoulda Been You!
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#18Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 9:43pm
I have the demo for The Skin of Our Teeth and I think it's really great. Rain is a favorite. I can't remember who, but someone told me the current problem with the show is that Thornton Wilder's nephew pulled the rights for the musical.
#19Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 10:10pm
Yep that was confirmed in the old K&E thread on this page 
I like it--I think I like it more musically than Visit, actually. Though Skin of Our Teeth is a damn unruly play (often brilliant but its message is also somewhat dated.)
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#20Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 10:20pm
It also requires a very talented director and actors for the play to even begin to make sense. I would (respectfully) disagree with you about its message being dated, though. I think it's a testament to the will of the human spirit. One of my favorite plays, though every production I've seen of it has been a serious mess.
#21Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 10:35pm
They should have done this with Sister Act...
Haven't seen the FUN HOME updates yet, but I was hoping for a new version of EDGES OF THE WORLD... and I don't really think the new artwork is that much better than the old artwork...
... and for the record I'm a FUN HOME super fan... can't wait to see it on Broadway, so these comments are coming from a place of love.
#22Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 10:48pm
Maybe I'll give the demo another chance! I love the demo of The Visit, and I got them around the same time, so maybe I wasn't as fair to Skin.
I agree re: Sister Act. I would absolutely love Victoria Clark's rendition of Mother Abbess.
I'm looking forward to the new recording of Changing My Major, I've heard great things about Emily.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#23Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 10:59pm
Gypsy- Could you PM me? I'd love to hear those demos if you're willing to share :)
Also, I think you mean Mother Suprior. Mother Abbess is from The Sound of Music
#24Fun Home will receive updated cast album
Posted: 4/10/15 at 11:01pm
Hahahaha yes, Mother Superior! I don't know why I thought Abbess. Victoria would be perfect singing Climb Ev'ry Rainbow though!
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
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