ILLINOISE Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 10:14am

Releases May 31 on digital platforms! Music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 10:18am

Elijah Lyons, Shara Nova, and Tasha Viets-VanLear performing "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!":

 

 

Lyons, Nova, and Viets-VanLear performing "Chicago (Reprise)":

 

[Markie27]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 10:22am

My god the orchestrations are so beautiful!  

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 10:32am

God, I can't wait for next Friday!!!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 10:49am

Magical. 

 

That drop can't get here quick enough! 

 

Edsos, thanks for posting!

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 1:50pm

Gorgeous. Stunning arrangements and performances by the singers and band. This one will be on repeat for sure.

[bryan32]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 8:43pm

why can they not put out the cd on the same day. that would be nice for everyone who buy the cd only

[Auggie27]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 8:53pm

I completely agree. These songs are examples of poetic world building, so fully realized in the arrangements, we're transported. 

[RW3]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 9:53pm

I am having a ‘Kate Baldwin singing Ribbons Down my Back’ experience with “The Predatory Wasp…”. This was a song that I skipped on the original album but I can’t stop playing this version. 

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 5:30pm

I just came home from seeing the matinee and saw this! The music was simply glorious, and I'm excited that it'll be out so soon!

[bwayobsessed]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 6:02pm

RW3 said: "I am having a ‘Kate Baldwin singing Ribbons Down my Back’ experience with “The Predatory Wasp…”. This was a song that I skipped on the original album but I can’t stop playing this version."

Kate Baldwin was the first time I ever didn’t hate that song 

[bwayobsessed]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 6:12pm

Markie27 said: "My god the orchestrations are so beautiful! "

I’m not someone who normally notices orchestrations but this one was one while watching I was like this has to win orchestrations 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 6:52pm

I can't wait to hear this album!!

[hak5]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 7:26pm

bryan32 said: "why can they not put out the cd on the same day. that would be nice for everyone who buy the cd only"

With CD sales on the decline, I'm guessing there isn't as many manufacturing plants.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 10:13pm

bwayobsessed said: "Markie27 said: "My god the orchestrations are so beautiful! "

I’m not someone who normally notices orchestrations but this one was one while watching I was like this has to win orchestrations"

True, I know but Merrily and Stereophonic...a tie?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 10:20pm

Has anyone found this for pre-order on Amazon?  (I have the worst luck EVER finding pre-orders.)  TIA

[bwayobsessed]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 11:40pm

Robbie2 said: "bwayobsessed said: "Markie27 said: "My god the orchestrations are so beautiful! "

I’m not someone who normally notices orchestrations but this one was one while watching I was like this has to win orchestrations"

True, I know but Merrily and Stereophonic...a tie?"

im not nearly as enamored with Stereophonic as everyone else is….like I think it’s a good play but I don’t think it’s the earth shattering score/orchestrations winning piece everyone else thinks it is

 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/30/24 at 2:37pm

Streaming release is tomorrow. 

[bryan32]

Posted: 5/30/24 at 4:59pm

do not what streaming just the cd they should do both

[hak5]

Posted: 5/30/24 at 5:36pm

bryan32 said: "do not what streaming just the cd they should do both"

It was announced there will be a CD

[bryan32]

Posted: 5/30/24 at 5:42pm

on all the list I have seen it did not say a cd date so when is the date.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/31/24 at 12:07am

Was really hoping it’d be available at midnight but I’m not finding it anywhere :(

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/31/24 at 12:08am

Now available, who’s listening?

 

Track listing:

• ACT I
• 1. Three Stars (or, Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois)
• 2. The Long Hike
• 3. Come On! Feel the Illinoise!
• 4. Jacksonville
• 5. Zombies
• 6. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
• 7. The Man of Metropolis

 

• ACT II
• 8. Decatur
• 9. Chicago
• 10. To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament
• 11. Casimir Pulaski Day
• 12. Prairie Fire That Wanders About
• 13. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
• 14. In This Temple, as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
• 15. The Seer’s Tower

 

• ACT III
• 16. Chicago (Reprise)
• 17. The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
• 18. Epilogue

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/31/24 at 12:10am

https://open.spotify.com/album/7bELJsLJfeTYzgtVsQiwUa?si=iKbqIX2TRICmpKASdqwGzA

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/31/24 at 12:21am

Found it on Apple. Finally. :)

Updated On: 5/31/24 at 12:21 AM