GYPSY 2025 Broadway Cast Recording Thread- Page 2

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 4:07am

joevitus said: "Listening to that track, I still think her voice is wrong for the role. Was hoping--readingall the love from those who've seen the show--that the recording would show some development from her concert rendition of "Rose's Turn" demonstrating she could mold her voice to the material. Apparently, that never happened."

Nope

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 4:12am

joevitus said: "ColorTheHours048 said: "Dolly80 said: "CATSNYrevival said: "Remember when people were insisting that photo of the cast around the trunk was placeholder artwork? Now it's the album cover."

Perfectly illustrated how lazy this production is creatively."



Uh, Iwouldn’t exactly call this award-winning design. I can’t believe some people care thismuch about a promotional photoshoot."

That's a pretty bad comparison. I guess you could call the above art lazy (photoshop Patty over the title and done). But it actually connects to the show, to what it's about. That's a big Rose gesture, Rose is the essenceshow, and so it works. You see it and you have some sense of what the evening is about.

The photo of the new cast connects to the show not at all. It looks like the actors are about to attend an awards cermony or something. No one is posed or costumedin a way that either informstheir characters or tells the potential buyer aboutthe show. Which makes it look like absolutely no thought was given to conveying the material within the image. So, yeah, lazy."

Yeah, and anyone at beginner level of photoshopping and 3D modeling would clutch their pearls seeing this abomination of artwork. We already had pretty decent tech in 2008. They could've done better if they wanted to.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 8:20am

Shoulda been this: 

[Nolan LuPone]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 11:20am

EDSOSLO858 said: "Track listing:

• ACTI
• 1. Overture
• 2. May We Entertain You
• 3. Some People
• 4. Seattle to Los Angeles (Some People Reprise)
• 5. Small World
• 6. Baby June and Her Newsboys (LetMe Entertain You)
• 7. Recitation
• 8. Military Routine
• 9. Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone
• 10. Little Lamb
• 11. You'll Never Get Away From Me
• 12. Dainty June and Her Farmboys
• 13. Broadway
• 14. If Momma Was Married
• 15. All I Need is the Girl
• 16. Everything's Coming Up Roses

• ACT II
• 17. Madame Rose's Toreadorables
• 18. Together, Wherever We Go
• 19. Which Way to Wichita?
• 20. You Gotta Get a Gimmick
• 21. Small World (Reprise)
• 22. The Strip —On the Road Again
• 23. I Thought You Did It for Me, Momma
• 24. Rose's Turn
• 25. Curtain Music

"

I get that it's fun to debate the album cover, but I am hyped for this track listing! It looks like we might get some book scenes? I am a sucker for recorded dialogue on cast recordings. I think it's so incredibly important to preserve not only the musical performances of casts, but also their acting. I found this revival in particular to have strong performances, which I am thrilled to see will be potentially preserved.  

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 11:59am

I would have preferred they included the Entr’acte over some of the dialogue tracks. Especially since they made such a deal about restoring the original orchestrations in some of the early press releases.

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 12:31pm

I always thought the 2008 artwork looked like an advertisement for Gypsy: On Ice. 

[joevitus]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 10:24pm

Dancingthrulife2 said: "joevitus said: "ColorTheHours048 said: "Dolly80 said: "CATSNYrevival said: "Remember when people were insisting that photo of the cast around the trunk was placeholder artwork? Now it's the album cover."

Perfectly illustrated how lazy this production is creatively."



Uh, Iwouldn’t exactly call this award-winning design. I can’t believe some people care thismuch about a promotional photoshoot."

That's a pretty bad comparison. I guess you could call the above art lazy (photoshop Patty over the title and done). But it actually connects to the show, to what it's about. That's a big Rose gesture, Rose is the essenceshow, and so it works. You see it and you have some sense of what the evening is about.

The photo of the new cast connects to the show not at all. It looks like the actors are about to attend an awards cermony or something. No one is posed or costumedin a way that either informstheir characters or tells the potential buyer aboutthe show. Which makes it look like absolutely no thought was given to conveying the material within the image. So, yeah, lazy."

Yeah, and anyone at beginner level of photoshopping and 3D modeling would clutch their pearls seeing this abomination of artwork. We already had pretty decent tech in 2008. They could've done better if they wanted to."

At the end of the day, the Patty image conveys something about the show--it even connects to some extent with the history of the show through the drawing of Lansbury striking a dramatic pose used for the Broadway production, and the image of Daly. All three have Rose in a dramatic pose, at least one arm (or both) extended upward. The image of Audra & Co. doesn't connect to anything about the show. Thus the latter is the worse of the two.

[Mskuphantm]

Posted: 4/14/25 at 12:36am

Are we legitly getting upset over artwork of a broadway cast recording?!?!?. Never, for me at least, have I ever thought, meh I am not going to get that cast album because of its' artwork.  Bahaha don't make me laugh, this is getting ridiculous. Ooops too late.  Just don't buy or stream it for gosh sakes.

[binau]

Posted: 4/14/25 at 5:21am

I think when you are obsessed with theatre, as many of us are, we care about every detail including the artwork (which we do have to look at on a regular basis of course!). None of it really matters of course, and yet it all matters. 

[Bwaygurl2]

Posted: 4/14/25 at 7:30am

Mskuphantm said: "Are we legitly getting upset over artwork of a broadway cast recording?!?!?. Never, for me at least, have I ever thought, meh I am not going to get that cast album because of its' artwork. Bahaha don't make me laugh, this is getting ridiculous. Ooops too late. Just don't buy or stream it for gosh sakes."

This is a discussion board. People are discussing album art. No one is upset. 

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 4/14/25 at 8:16am

Mskuphantm said: "Are we legitly getting upset over artwork of a broadway cast recording?!?!?. Never, for me at least, have I ever thought, meh I am not going to get that cast album because of its' artwork. Bahaha don't make me laugh, this is getting ridiculous. Ooops too late. Just don't buy or stream it for gosh sakes."

You must not frequent discussion boards very often, especially ones that exist for fans of the discussion topic.

If you are surprised by people talking about the art on a cast recording here, your mind would be blown by what goes on on discussion boards for Star Wars fans or fans of Masters of the Universe- subtle differences in head sculpts of varying releases of action figures, placement of UPC codes on products, whether new packaging is better or worse than retro packaging. 

That fans are discussing and comparing album art and production art is a very normal thing on a discussion board.

 

[Mskuphantm]

Posted: 4/14/25 at 11:25am

I frequent them just enough to see how sometimes even with pages of back and forth of people voicing their same opinions, which they are allowed to have, will go to great lengths to make sure if someone else disagrees or states something because some of the posts are not exactly discussing but arguing. Then will try and in a way gaslight or belittle someone else by typing paragraphs on how said discussion board works.   

[joevitus]

Posted: 4/14/25 at 11:53am

"Gaslight", lol. No one's being gaslighted here. People who don't like the art or like the art are responding to each other. End of story.

[Mskuphantm]

Posted: 4/14/25 at 12:00pm

That wasnt directed for this topic on artwork.  That was in response to if I ever have been on discussion boards before and that was my reply.