HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 12:30pm

http://instagram.com/p/C12Nxo8u4jX/

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 12:36pm

YAY!!

[Dylan Smith4]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:04pm

While this score may not be one of my favorites (mostly because it's incomplete), I am glad this incredible cast will be preserved on an album. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:08pm

I'd love to hear that ballad again.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:08pm

Very pleasing news. I don't even care if the score is good or not, I just want the chance to hear it.

[Kad]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:13pm

I wonder if they’ll be recording some scenes and scoring from the second act? Otherwise it’ll be a very short recording. 

Updated On: 1/8/24 at 01:13 PM

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:14pm

Is it too much to ask for unreleased or unrecorded bonus tracks from the Sondheim archives? :)

 

I am so pumped for this.

[bear88]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:16pm

It sounds like there will be a cast recording but no filmed production, aside from the one already done for the archives. 

Aside from the paranoia that stemmed mostly from the mystery surrounding the show, I always would have been surprised if there wasn’t a cast recording. I will be curious about how it’s put together, as even the first act often alternates between dialogue and song, and the second act has music even after the songs stop.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:30pm

Hooray! I mean we knew...but now we KNOW.

 

I'm with Kads thought, maybe this will get us more dialogue then "normal". 

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:35pm

Even if they don’t record a lot of the act 2 dialogue, I’d have to imagine they’d preserve most of the underscoring/interludes, as they’re very Sondheim sounding. Tunick and Gemignani did a wonderful job with it. 

[bear88]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 2:05pm

I have learned to always take what I can get after not getting a Shuffle Along cast recording or a Company Broadway revival cast recording. Or, for that matter, the truncated Follies cast album.

That said, this is more for Sondheim completists and for people who saw Here We Are and can fill in the visual blanks. This is definitely a show that would benefit from getting to see it, especially because the producers went to the expense and effort of putting together such a top-notch stage production.

But I’ll take it.

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 1/8/24 at 2:27pm

The bows. I'm dying to have the music during the bows and playout. 

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 1/9/24 at 8:13pm

Dylan Smith4 said: "While this score may not be one of my favorites (mostly because it's incomplete), I am glad this incredible cast will be preserved on an album."

I am curious: do you feel the same about Mozart's Requiem?

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 2:42pm

Video from recoding; release slated for "spring"

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 3:53pm

Why are they waiting so long? They've finished recording, all that's left to do is mix the show, which usually only takes a little over a month. Are they going to coincide the release with Sondheim's birthday in March?

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:01pm

Alex Kulak2 said: "Why are they waiting so long? They've finished recording, all that's left to do is mix the show, which usually only takes a little over a month. Are they going to coincide the release with Sondheim's birthday in March?"

They JUST recorded and I'd rather have no release date than an initial release date that later gets pushed for whatever reason. Or they still do a surprise drop, but they probably won't just with the "final Sondheim original cast album" marketing they'll be using. Anyway... with recordings from this label, they definitely get them mixed and released quickly. According to the digital booklets... ITW was recorded from July-August and came out in September, Some Like It Hot was recorded in January and came out in March...

[Kad]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:18pm

We waited this long for this show to happen, I think people can wait another couple months for the album. 

[binau]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:55pm

Kad said: "We waited this long for this show to happen, I think people can wait another couple months for the album."

Exactly. To be a Sondheim fan for almost 20 years now (‘only’) and for it to be the first time I was actually able to see a ‘new’ Sondheim show, I personally can wait a few extra months hehe. 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:57pm

Merrily had two release dates. It dropped on streaming out of the blue, then the physical release followed a couple of months later. Might this be the same?

[Kad]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:59pm

To buy the physical copy, you’re going to have to go to multiple stores- and when you finally find it, you can’t go home. 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:02pm

Better that than resort to Amazon.

[AnythingYouDo]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:25pm

The video seems to confirm that the exit music will be included, which I'm thrilled about.

[TheOldRedHillsOfHome]

Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:35pm

That was also my takeaway, which I’m very excited about!

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 1/11/24 at 10:01am

Sondheim's birthday (March 22) is a Friday this year. Just saying...

[WindyNewYorker]

Posted: 1/11/24 at 12:54pm

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