"I'm Paul" - The Official Thread of Cast Album Idiosyncracies

LOL.

I don't know how far you'll get, but this thread is cracking me up already!

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The Les Miz CSR, during the Thenardier Waltz...when he says "beyond rubies is our little girl," something bizarre happens on the second syllable of rubies that makes it sound like he's doing the "gone crazy" sound by rubbing his fingers over his lips.

On the London Fiddler, after the mothers do their part in Tradition, Miriam Karlin (I think it's her, as she's about the only one singing it down the octave) comes in a bar early on "The mommas" line.

On the OBCR of HELLO, DOLLY!, during Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Carol Channing comes in a bar too early with her line "Ermengarde shtop shnivveling..." and you hear her say, "Ermen--" and she catches herself.

She then comes in at the correct time with the whole line.

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"Suffocate Them"
Unexplained small whisper utterance at the end of "Another Pyramid" on AIDA

Like the word "SEX" against the sky in THE LION KING? Or the priest's erection in THE LITTLE MERMAID? Or the "Good teenagers, take off your clothes" line in ALADDIN?

Seriously, either Disney needs to get its house in order, or...

(and yes, I know those three examples were just out-of-control rumors, like the hanged Munchkin of the forest in WIZARD OF OZ)

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Too tired to think up my own at the moment as my head is full of dense academic reading, but I had these threads in my bookmarks, so I'll contribute them to this post, heh.

Vocal flubs - https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=889111&boardid=1

Technical flaws - https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=937164&boardid=1

In "Put 'Em Back" on the OBCR of "Li'l Abner", one of the wives comes in early and catches herself.

And I thought I was the only one who ever heard the "I'm Paul" similarities!

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For the original recording of Anyone Can Whislte: in "Me and My town" during the "Do-do-do-wa-do-wa" part, you can hear one of the guys, start a "Do-" after the cutoff.
Something similar happens during "Simple" as well.

I am pretty sure the entire cast recording for "The Pirate Queen" was a mistake.

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On the Philharmonic Sweeney Todd -- there's a bunch of page-turning during Davis Gaines singing 'Johanna'. I can't remember if it's the Act 1 Anthony solo, or his intro to Todd's Act 2 Johanna.

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On the OBCR for The Pajama Game, Stanley Prager seems to run out of breath in "Seven-and-a-Half Cents" on the line, "That's enough for me to get an automatic washing machine/A year's supply of gasoline..." He barely squeaks out the word 'gasoline'.

Noelle Adam sort of adorably cracks on one of her notes in the first chorus of "La La La" in No Strings.

On Ben Bagley's Contemporary Broadway album, Jan Neuberger and Susan Stroman sing "Loopin' the Loop," cut from Chicago. At the end of the number, one of them says quietly, but enthusiastically, "THAT was good."

This one is quite well known, but still worth mentioning. On the House of Flowers recording, after a long day of recording, Diahann Carroll couldn't get out one of her final notes in "I Never Has Seen Snow" on the line, "LIKE my love is". Composer Harold Arlen sings the word "like" for her.

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Updated On: 8/29/08 at 08:04 AM

Maybe it's just me, but in the OBC recording of Two Gentlemen of Verona, during the song Follow the Rainbow, it sounds like Raul Julia accidentally starts to sing the wrong line with "How can we ever be lost?" and he was rather sloppily edited out just after he started the note. It drives me crazy every time I hear it.

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Not a mistake, but definitely an idiosyncracy:

The totally bogus sound effect of the barber chair/trap door on the Sweeney Todd OBC - the clanking metal, the sliding body, the thud - all sounds never actaully heard in performance.