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CATSNYrevival
#75HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/27/24 at 2:44pm

It wouldn’t be too surprising if some director someday tried to throw in a few reprises and a trunk song or two but I imagine it would be very difficult to find lyrics to match up with the book scenes.

WindyNewYorker
#76HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/28/24 at 11:12am

I have probably watch/listen to the exit music 100 times since it’s available. The orchestra sounds so good and so rare to see the first video of a cast album features the band. Wish I could play bassoon like that.

MrBroucek
#77HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/28/24 at 4:51pm

CATSNYrevival said: "It wouldn’t be too surprising if some director someday tried to throw in a few reprises and a trunk song or two but I imagine it would be very difficult to find lyrics to match up with the book scenes."

 

In the Vulture article, Ives talked talked about his responsibility to produce it as someday a 'Frankenstein' version will appear. Since seeing it, I've played around with the 'sensible' of including Silly People and Ah but underneath into the second half. In the 'silly' version, we have Sunday in the park with George, How i saved Roosevelt and The House of Marcus Lycus. 

 

 

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CATSNYrevival
#78HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/28/24 at 5:38pm

I was thinking actual trunk songs we haven’t heard before not cut songs that have been used in Marry Me a Little or other revues or concerts.

AnythingYouDo
#79HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/28/24 at 8:39pm

Now that we've gotten Sondheim's score as he wrote it, I wouldn't mind if a lyricist wrote new lyrics for the second act to music based on the thematic material already established in the show. Sondheim's second acts are frequently based on thematic material in the first acts, so I think it could work if the lyricist is skilled.

When I saw the show, it didn't feel like the score was missing something. However, as others have noted, there are places where it seems apparent Sondheim would have added songs if he'd lived to see this production happen. I've sort of imagined a reprise of "Waiter's Song" when Windsor takes over the food and supplies after the group gets trapped in the room.

WindyNewYorker
#80HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/30/24 at 10:36am

https://youtu.be/c61mvUVgcoA?si=p74D8viDrUqfgfap

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by David Ives

Directed by Joe Mantello

Album Produced by Sean Patrick Flahaven and Bill Rosenfield

Conductor: ALEXANDER GEMIGNANI

Piano/Keyboard: MEGHANN ZERVOULIS BATE

Piccolo/Flute/Clarinet: JIM ERCOLE

Oboe/English Horn: KEVE WILSON

Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Alto Sax: LINO GOMEZ

Bassoon: PATRICIA WANG

Trumpet: HUGO MORENO

Horn: PRISCILLA RINEHART

Drums/Percussion: MATT SMALLCOMB

Violin: CENOVIA CUMMINS

Violin: RACHEL HANDMAN

Viola: ORLANDO WELLS

Cello: SARAH HEWITT-ROTH

Bass: MATT ARONOFF

Orchestrations: JONATHAN TUNICK

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TotallyEffed
#81HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/30/24 at 10:41am

AnythingYouDo said: "Now that we've gotten Sondheim's score as he wrote it, I wouldn't mind if a lyricist wrote new lyrics for the second act to music based on the thematic material already established in the show."

 

No.

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ljay889
#82HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/30/24 at 11:04am

Why are people still fantasizing about another composer adding new material? It’s been produced, the show is final. Sondheim knew this would be the final version of the musical. For there to be additions not done by Sondheim would be the epitome of disrespect. 

I’m totally fine with the final version where the singing stops. The interludes and underscoring are stunning. I would’ve liked a reprise of the “The Road” theme in the finale, but I’ve accepted that won’t happen. Although, it is fascinating during one of the early previews, someone claimed there was indeed a sung reprise 
In the finale. Who knows if that really happened? 

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Kad
#83HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 4/30/24 at 11:16am

Menken couldn't find a comparable replacement lyricist for Howard Ashman after he died, what hope do you think there is to find somebody who is comparable to Sondheim?


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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ljay889
#84HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 7:54am

The wait is over at midnight tonight! Who’s excited? 

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inception
#85HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 9:22am

I ordered a physical copy through website deepdiscount & received a shipping notice yesterday.


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dramamama611
#86HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 10:28am

ljay889 said: "The wait is over at midnight tonight! Who’s excited?"

I can't remember being more excited for a recording! 


If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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binau
#87HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 12:34pm

The last time ever we will hear a new Sondheim score performed in a studio. Wowww. 


"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

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binau
#88HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 1:01pm

There is quite a lot of dialogue. It’s like they wanted to emphasise the book writer/‘first’ titled author contribution. 


"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

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CATSNYrevival
#89HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 1:12pm

I’m grateful for the dialogue. Some of the dialogue tracks are breathtaking. In response to the sentiment by some that the second act feels incomplete, the only moment in the second act that really felt to me like maybe there could have been a song in that scene was the exchange between the Bishop and Marianne. They have that philosophical conversation about “being,” about heaven and hell, and what happens when we die. Ultimately, he says to her all we can do is “be here until we’re not.” For me that scene is the unexpected heart of the piece, and usually a moment like that in a musical would bring about a song, but in this musical the song never comes and that’s okay too. Maybe if Sondheim had seen these actors perform that scene in previews in front of an audience he might have been inspired to write a song to accompany the scene, but maybe he wouldn’t have. Maybe it’s perfect the way it is. To be continued.

Updated On: 5/16/24 at 01:12 PM

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ljay889
#90HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 1:31pm

How are some of you listening already?

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jacobsnchz14
#91HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 1:43pm

ljay889 said: "How are some of you listening already?"

Apparently it’s out in some time zones already. Cannot wait to listen tonight/tomorrow!

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The8re phan
#92HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 7:47pm

judging by a track length of 5 minutes and 24 seconds, I'm BEYOND GRATEFUL that most everyone's favorite scene (titled Interlude 3: Snow) appears to be preserved.  So perfect since it's the heart and soul of the piece <3 <3 <3 


Slotted spoons don't hold much soup

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Robbie2
#93HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/16/24 at 11:15pm

VIDEO: Sondheim & Ives' Here We Are cast recording

https://www.sondheimsociety.com/single-post/sondheim_hereweare_cast_recording#:~:text=Concord%20Theatricals%20Recordings%20announced%20today,vinyl%20on%20Friday%206%20September.

Exit Music -video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c61mvUVgcoA


"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George
Updated On: 5/16/24 at 11:15 PM

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#94HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/17/24 at 12:03am

IT’S HEEEEEEERE!!!

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Jordan Catalano
#95HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/17/24 at 12:07am

Oh there’s so much dialogue! I’m in total heaven here. 

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Jordan Catalano
#96HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/17/24 at 12:11am

The entire  5 1/2 minute scene towards the end with Rachel Bay Jones and David Hyde Pierce is recorded here. I can’t even put into words how happy this makes me. 

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uncageg
#97HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/17/24 at 12:13am

Listening while walking on a gorgeous night in Colorado. 


Just give the world Love.

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jacobsnchz14
#98HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/17/24 at 12:13am

Digital Booklet and libretto: https://found.ee/HereWeAreMusical

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Robbie2
#99HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 5/17/24 at 12:17am

Listening!!!!!!!!!!


"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George


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