#1
Posted: 4/26/11 at 4:57pm
So, I'm planning on buying the revival CD when it comes out in June, but for now, which version should I get? I can't decide between the original and the 1995 revival.
#2
Posted: 4/26/11 at 5:23pm
I'm not happy with either of them. I'd just wait a month and see how the revival CD turns out.
#3
Posted: 4/26/11 at 5:25pm
That's what I was thinking just now, actually. Thanks, though.
#4
Posted: 4/26/11 at 8:26pm
Just stick with the original. Neither revival comes amywhere close to it.
#5
Posted: 4/27/11 at 2:15am
The original recording with Robert Morse is all right - marred by distortion (that also mars many RCA recordings of that time - they had the mic levels way too high.) There is better sound on the 1995 revival cast (Broderick) and it is the most complete recording to date (missing "Cinderella Darling" which was cut from the revival.) IT also includes some of the book passages s recorded for the production by Walter Cronkite. Broderick is fine but Megan Mullally is a shrill Rosemary - no warmth in her voice at all.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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