GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread

Releases next Friday on digital platforms. The first track has been released today by Legacy Records: "Like a Rolling Stone," led by Tony nominee Mare Winningham (Casa Valentina). Link is below.

Of note, this recording features Colton Ryan, who will not be returning to the show this fall due to TV and film conflicts. The album was recorded just days before the Broadway shutdown and held off its release until the show announced a reopening date.

As previously announced, Girl From the North Country will return to the Belasco Theatre on October 13. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxLDPV5VqM

 

I loved this show at both the Public and on Broadway. I am very excited for the cast album. The single track they released sounds incredible. 

The CD is now available digitally and physically! 

Full track listing (I won't separate by act this time - can somebody remind me what the Act One closer was for this show?):

1. Sign On the Window
2. Went to See the Gypsy
3. Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
4. Slow Train / License to Kill
5. Ballad of a Thin Man (Instrumental)
6. I Want You
7. Blind Willie McTell (Instrumental)
8. Like a Rolling Stone / Make You Feel My Love
9. Like a Rolling Stone (Reprise) / I Want You (Reprise)
10. What Can I Do For You?
11. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere / Jokerman
12. Sweetheart Like You / True Love Tends to Forget
13. Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Instrumental)
14. Girl from the North Country
15. Ballad of a Thin Man (Radio)
16. Hurricane / All Along the Watchtower / Idiot Wind
17. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Instrumental)
18. Duquesne Whistle / Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) / Is Your Love In Vain? / License to Kill (Reprise)
19. Lay Lady Lay (Instrumental) / Jokerman (Reprise)
20. Clair de Lune (Instrumental)
21. Forever Young
22. Pressing On

Just listened all the way through... what a GREAT recording! It sounds so good.

I saw it at the Public and thought that it was a nuanced piece that set a somber tone. I liked the staging, lighting and performances. It doesn’t play like a jukebox musical. They fit his songs to complement the depression era mood of the piece.

Auggie27 said: "Has Mare Winningham been back in this week? I fear it might close in January, and having seen her (truly superb) cover, Jennifer Blood, want to see it again with Winningham."

Winningham was in when I saw the show again on Monday night and nothing online has indicated she was out. Worth noting they’ve had a 9 show week and some may be out due to COVID or rotating for a night off - I had four understudies on Monday for Kimber Sprawl, Austin Scott, Caitlin Houlahan, and Matthew Harris (who was playing Scott)

The show was off my radar at the time of the shutdown. When I saw it two weeks ago, I went in almost cold. Blindsided by its power. Going back.

I enjoyed a few of the songs on the album - Like a Rolling Stone in particular- and decided to catch the show Monday night.

I thought the plot was muddled and most of the drama unearned, though I enjoyed watching Luba Mason in the second act.