High Fidelity CD Recorded Expected Release March/April- Page 2

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 12:25am

I doubt the "producers" coughed up the dough for this.
Remember they lost all the money they raised producing the show.

I feel someone creatively involved in the show who has deep pockets dug in to make this happen.

[BDrischBDemented]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 12:27am

There were equally (if not more) reviews that looked on HiFi negatively. I did see the show, and they're all pretty dead on. The score is by and large bland and forgettable, striving too hard for a rock edge that it still can't grasp.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 1:13am

I really doubt there will be any other productions of this show.

But that doesn't mean there won't be some people who will enjoy listening to the score.

I found the lyrics quite witty.
and any recording of Collela is worth $16 at least.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 1:13am

"High Fidelity has been acknowledged as a very good show that was the victim of vapid critics and a tough demographic sell."

By whom, exactly?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 1:21am

By me, of course. Don't you know? I'm the arbiter of theater.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 2:01am

S&M, I'm sorry if you're under the mistaken impression that I have ever written a post and hoped that you, of all people, would respond to it or that I have any inclination to interact with you, even online. Since you didn't make the original statement, perhaps you might have understood the question to be posed to the person who did. But you didn't understand that, and though that is rather sad, I hope this follow-up post clears this, and all future matters, up.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 2:34am

Namo, why can't you love me the way that I love you?

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 1/13/07 at 2:57am

I was grateful that sh-k-boom recorded Amour, and I'm grateful that they're recording this. Just because a show only runs for 20 perfs, doesn't mean it shouldn't have a life beyond that.

[magicfingers]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 1:11am

MUCH of the Broadway community ( I do not count critics as part of that community) is very sad that High Fidelity closed because the majority of people who saw it ( from great directors, actors and writers on) really liked the show and felt it did not get a fair shake. I am part of that community and every single person I have spoken to- many of them very high profile people in broadway feel Hi Fi was a first class show.

The album was recorded today and will make the critics and nay sayers eat their words when it is released. I believe it will very likely become an album enjoyed many people who actually bashed the show and will likely spawn many future productions. A cast album doesn't lie and Tom Kitt and Amanda Green are going to get their just rewards because of it. I am sad that most people did not have a chance to see the brilliant production of High Fidelity but I am glad that an amazing cast album will be available. After all- it was a show about the love or Rock and Roll and an album really is the currency of Rock. You can bash my post all you want but come march/april once the album is released you are all going to be singing a much different tune. peace out.

[magicfingers]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 1:11am

MUCH of the Broadway community ( I do not count critics as part of that community) is very sad that High Fidelity closed because the majority of people who saw it ( from great directors, actors and writers on) really liked the show and felt it did not get a fair shake. I am part of that community and every single person I have spoken to- many of them very high profile people in broadway feel Hi Fi was a first class show.

The album was recorded today and will make the critics and nay sayers eat their words when it is released. I believe it will very likely become an album enjoyed many people who actually bashed the show and will likely spawn many future productions. A cast album doesn't lie and Tom Kitt and Amanda Green are going to get their just rewards because of it. I am sad that most people did not have a chance to see the brilliant production of High Fidelity but I am glad that an amazing cast album will be available. After all- it was a show about the love or Rock and Roll and an album really is the currency of Rock. You can bash my post all you want but come march/april once the album is released you are all going to be singing a much different tune. peace out.

[magicfingers]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 1:11am

MUCH of the Broadway community ( I do not count critics as part of that community) is very sad that High Fidelity closed because the majority of people who saw it ( from great directors, actors and writers on) really liked the show and felt it did not get a fair shake. I am part of that community and every single person I have spoken to- many of them very high profile people in broadway feel Hi Fi was a first class show.

The album was recorded today and will make the critics and nay sayers eat their words when it is released. I believe it will very likely become an album enjoyed many people who actually bashed the show and will likely spawn many future productions. A cast album doesn't lie and Tom Kitt and Amanda Green are going to get their just rewards because of it. I am sad that most people did not have a chance to see the brilliant production of High Fidelity but I am glad that an amazing cast album will be available. After all- it was a show about the love or Rock and Roll and an album really is the currency of Rock. You can bash my post all you want but come march/april once the album is released you are all going to be singing a much different tune. peace out.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 1:19am

and i was wishing for a
THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'
CD

Alot of the "Broadway community" thought HF was not really good and the music was not really what the characters would be singing
But an album might be fun

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 1:20am

This thread is worse than husk_charmer being condescending and patroniziong to me while lecturing me about how important "A Chorus Line" is.

Updated On: 1/14/07 at 01:20 AM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 2:37am

Thanks for the snarky comment B3.

Actually, magicfingers has a good point about it possibly gaining a new life because of the cast album. Look at "The Last 5 Years," it had a shortened run, and was not a critical success, but thanks to the cast album, who doesn't have it now? (Rhetorical, I know, there will be people without it). I did not get to see HiFi, or hear it, so I for one would kinda like to hear it.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:05am

I don't have Last Five Years, for one.

Approximately what universe do you people live in? The album's going to come out and WHAT exactly? Productions for a medium-sized cast musical are going to spring up everywhere?

"I believe it will very likely become an album enjoyed many people who actually bashed the show and will likely spawn many future productions."

But probably not. I saw the show and never "bashed" it. It would've been like kicking a puppy that never did anything wrong exactly, but just sort of sat there, looking great (the sets), but not being able to tell a story coherently. Because it's a puppy.

I enjoyed Dick's "No problem" song. But it's not going to motivate me to go out and buy the recording.

"A cast album doesn't lie ...". No. No it does not.

"... and Tom Kitt and Amanda Green are going to get their just rewards because of it." No. No they will not be getting any rewards.

Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:19am

I loved the show, but the most the cast album is going to do is start an internet cult of female teenagers who suddenly like the show and mainly took an interest in it because of the cast members' ties to Rent and Aida. They'll trade audio recordings around LiveJournal communities, make banners and icons with lyrics from the show on them, and eventually move on. The end. I don't see any reason why this album is going to start flying off the proverbial shelves the minute it's released, kind of preventing the mass cry for community productions.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:32am

That might have happened if the show remained open. But it didn't. I doubt they'll be motivated to do those things when they can't "do the lottery" and stage door and inform the world that Will Chase is "the nicest guy ever" after the show, he talks to everybody and poses for pictures and EVERYTHING!

Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:42am

Nah, Namo, I have to disagree with you there. The Last 5 Years love, so to speak, continues with the teenage set who likely wouldn't be interested in a musical with such themes if it weren't for Sherie and Norbert (who is just so "hot"), and that show has been closed for years. Granted, Last Five Years' score is infinitely better than High Fidelity's score, but I'm betting an album with Will Chase, Caryn Lyn Manuel, Matt Caplan, Justin Brill, and Christian Anderson is going to attract attention from the teenage Rent set that follows the recent Rent casts so closely, even if they can't accost them after the show anymore. I still don't see it being a remotely profitable venture for Sh-K-Boom, but again, I'm not complaining.
Updated On: 1/14/07 at 11:42 AM

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:21pm

Bobby, I've never agreed with you more! High Fidelity was just a horrible idea for a musical, and the Wedding Singer was a said excuse at musical comedy. I WISH Ghostlight would have recorded the Little Fish concert. I don't think that show will ever get recorded. I applaud them for recording some really random things, but this one does seem rather pointless. I think it's hard to make a musical about "music buffs." It's just a bad idea for a musical.

[magicfingers]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 10:27pm

A good friend whom I trust greatly who is involved with the Recording of Hi Fi told me the session was a great success and the album is gonna be amazing. Before all you nay sayers out there bemoan the fact that this album was recorded perhaps you can reserve judgement and wait to hear the cast album before you say what a bad idea it was. The album is gonna blow away people who love great rock musicals. trust me....it'll be up there on alot of people's "Top 5 lists.."

[jimnysf]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 11:22pm

High Fidelity has been acknowledged as a very good show that was the victim of vapid critics and a tough demographic sell.

trust me....it'll be up there on alot of people's "Top 5 lists.."

Thanks for a few good laughs! I needed them. Anyway, I'm glad you liked the show but the "vapid" critics didn't care for it in Boston or in New York, so they couldn't all be wrong. Also, the audiences stayed away in both cities. Clearly, there was no audience for this show and I doubt if there will be one for the CD but time will tell I guess. How will we measure how many "Top 5 lists" it ends up on?

[magicfingers]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 1:10am

Jimnysf....You know so little about the history of critical writing. Go out and buy a book called " The History of Musical Invective". It is a collection of critical essays and writings since the time of Beethoven and you will see clear and unquestionable proof that critics have NO CLUE WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. Critics- as a rule are failed artists who have become embittered to harsh realities of the life of the artist and have in a Fruedian sense " turned on themselves".

As a lark why don't you go dig up some Sondheim reviews for a few of his shows..or some reviews of Bernstein's works....Some ciritcal discorse on the works of Puccini or Stravinksy. Go read Brantley's midguided take on JRB's "Parade" or most critics take on " The Last Five Years".

I don't know how much you are aware how utterly WRONG critics are but know this- they are most attacking and most vicioius on works that are original, daring and provacatice. Critics do not have any better insight into what is good or bad than the average person. The only true and undeniable critic is TIME. TIME does not lie and most great music, art or literature that has stoo the test of time has been killed by critics.

As for High Fidelity- it was a brilliant show that was far too ahead of it's time and demanded far too much of critics. The audiences LOVED it but because of the critics and the challenge of selling a work that people had predetermined was not suitable for a musical adaptation ( which it absolutely was) the show closed. Regardless, the cast album will be loved and enjoyed by many many people for many many years and Tom Kitt and Amanda Green will be acknowled as the amazing writers they are.

I don't mean to lecture you but I have had alot of experience with this sort of thing and judging from your previous comment you are not an artist and do not understand the sorts of trials and tribulations good art and artists are faced with- Broadway art being no exception.

It is fun to write on these message boards and they really are of no value other than letting entertainment and blowing off steam- but mark my words all you theatre loving geeks out there ( i count myself as one!) High Fidelity will hold a prominent place in your Ipod or multi-CD changer sometime soon.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 1:28am

You know so little about the history of critical writing.

How lucky I am to have you around to enlighten me!

I guess I am not the only one who "know(s) so little about the history of critical writing".
The audiences LOVED it but because of the critics and the challenge of selling a work that people had predetermined was not suitable for a musical adaptation ( which it absolutely was) the show closed.


By the way, I have liked many shows that the critics hated and hated many that they liked.

[magicfingers]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 1:57am

"By the way, I have liked many shows that the critics hated and hated many that they liked. "

My point exactly.

By the way- do you listen to rock and roll music? And if so what bands are you into?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 7:11am

A brilliant show? Ahead of its time?

Did we see the same High Fidelity?