I WANT A NEW CD! - help?- Page 3

[Justice]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:00am

As I stated, Company has a new remastered edition that does not sound old in quality terms. It's great. Those familiar with the OCR will hear instruments never heard before.

[Marquise]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 9:04am

yeah sony did an awesome job re-mastering all their old cast albums like "company". "a chorus line" sounds amazing in it's re-mastered edition. i love the extended montage: hello, twelve, hello thirteen, hello love. who knew all that material was locked in a vault all these years.

GET A CHORUS LINE!!!!!!

Updated On: 3/27/05 at 09:04 AM

[Gooch]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:39am

Someone mentioned The Me Nobody Knows and Runaways. As I love both I recommend them, but can someone help me get a copy of the cds.. I have looked everywhere.

[Justice]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:40am

Gooch - if you do not live in NYC, you can purchase them online at Amazon.com.

[riv]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 10:50am

These aren't going to be your cup of tea, since you reject most of Broadway's musical history in favor of contemporary tripe, but I'm suggesting them anyway for when you grow up. Ten choices in alphabetical order:

--Annie Get Your Gun (1991 studio; no Merman, but otherwise perfect)
--Chicago (1988 London cast)
--Gigi (1958 soundtrack; not a show, but too great to leave out)
--Juno (1959)
--Kismet (1953 original)
--Man Of La Mancha (1965 original)
--My Fair Lady (1956 original)
--Pacific Overtures (1976 original)
--Showboat (1988 complete studio)
--The King And I (1977 revival)

These are recordings I couldn't live without. There are others of course, and I'm not saying this represents the greatest shows ever written. But if my home burned down tomorrow and I lost my collection, I would replace these first.

Updated On: 3/27/05 at 10:50 AM

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:21pm

Sorry, not trying to "rag" on you...just hoping to open your eyes (ears) to new and exciting scores. I don't know how old you but I suspect school age since you seem to only know the contemporary shows and dislike the classics of Rodgers and Hammesrtein etc. It appears you do not know much "classical" music. If you did you would probably start to see the connections. For example a good deal of Lloyd Webber is right out of Puccini. Sondheim's influences include Ravel, Stravinsky, Copland and a bit of Shostakovich. Richard Rodgers and Frederick Loewe have their roots in vienese operetta. The new generation is now referencing not the classical composers but their derivatives. The more you listen, the more you will see how everything connects. As for Sondheim, with most people it takes one score to unlock the mystery and then once you "get" his stuff, your universe expands dramatically. For me it was COMPANY (I was in 8th Grade at the time) and I still love that score and suggest it to anyone as a good starting point. Others got into his work through more recent shows like INTO THE WOODS. But if you care at all about theatre and seeing music (as well as lyrics) used to its most dramatic effect, Sondheim should be your main reference point.

As for recorded sound quality, it is highly subjective but most recordings made in the 1970s (by the time they were recording on 16, 32 and even 64 tracks) the modern CD remixes if they are done with any care should sound fine. The latest remastering of COMPANY does.

Check out your local library so you can sample the scores and see if they have the scripts as well. Then you can get the whole picture. Of course if you still don't like a show afterwards well at least you gave it a shot....

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 12:39pm

Movin Out
Hairspray

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 3:33pm

does anyone think that Reefer Madness will come out w/ a new CD for the movie musical? Yeah, I might try Chicago, who knows. I'm only 18, so I think that's probably why i go for the new contemporary "trite" stuff.
Oh and I can't wait for spelling bee and DRS cast albums to come out!! woo-hoo
Updated On: 3/27/05 at 03:33 PM

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 4:21pm

Yeah, I would definitely recommend both Company and Into the Woods. They're the two that can maybe ease you into accepting Sondheim as a genius. Or at least a damn good composer and lyricist. Also, try West Side Story, one of my all-time favorites. And o look, Sondheim wrote the lyrics to that one, too! Haha, but yeah, I think you should definitely give Sondheim a chance. Especially since you own the three JRB cast recordings.

~Steven

[BroadwayBaby3]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 4:51pm

it sucks that itunes doesnt have like any good broadway cds!!!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/27/05 at 5:08pm

I hope they do a West Side Story revival. I'd love to see it redone. its on tv right now.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 12:29am

Let's make this easy for you. Here's a list of inter-related shows. Each time you buy a new Cd (or get one from your library) just go to the next one on the list.

Your current list ended with TITANIC. Picking up from there we go to :

NINE - another Maury yeston score, winner if 1982 Tony award where it competed with

DREAMGIRLS (get the 2 CD concert cast of whole show) which features Lilias White who was also featured in

H2$ -the 1995 revival of HOW TO SUCCEED which starred Matthew Broderick who costars in

THE PRODUCERS with Nathan Lane who won his 2nd Tony for this role. His first was for the revival of

A FUNNY THING...FORUM with a score by Sondheim who wrote lyrics for the great classic of the Broadway Stage...

WEST SIDE STORY a show choreographed by Jerome Robbins who also staged the original

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF with a score by Bock & harnick who also wrote

FIORELLO starring Tom Bosley who returned to Broadway for

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST which marked Diney's first foray into Broadway theatre followed by

THE LION KING which competed for (some say stole) the Tony award over

RAGTIME which stars Brian Stokes Mitchell who starred in the revival of

MAN OF LA MANCHA which opened on Broadway in 1965 the same year as

ON A CLEAR DAY... which featured lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner who also wrote

MY FAIR LADY which featured Julie Andrews who made her debut in

THE BOY FRIEND a rollicking parody on 1920s musicals like

NO NO NANETTE with the cast of the 1971 revival which opened the same year as Stephen Sondheim's

FOLLIES which as revived in concert in 1985 featuring George Hearn who had won a Tony for his performance in

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES with a book by Harvey firestein who was in the original Broadway cast of

HAIRSPRAY which won the Best new musical of 2003, teh same year that NINE was named Best revival bring us full circle.

There you go..your Cd listening for the next few months :)

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 12:38am

Haha, thanks for the list frontrow...

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 1:03am

Wow.
Very impressive. =)

~Steven

[hak]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 9:41am

if you can wait until may 3rd: MONTY PYTHON"S SPAMALOT
or go off-broadway for WHEN PIGS FLY & any of the FORBIDDEN BROADWAY CDs [SVU comes out late april]

[hellacoolmichael]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 9:53am

Try "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown", I just got it and can't stop listening to it.

Good Luck!

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 11:22am

Based on the CD's that you already have i think that you'd really enjoy Hairspray its a rockin soundtrack, also might I suggest Thoroughly Modern Millie

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 3/28/05 at 4:06pm

Even though the soundtrack is "rockin'" to use your term, I don't think it will do much good because it only has the score from the movie and I think Rentboy wants the songs that were in the Broadway musical. Therefore he should get the original cast recording on Sony.