Idea for iTunes and cast recordings + Wicked — Page 2

they make headlines by being one of the first ones to do it.


LOL! With a war in Iraq and a genocide in Darfur I don't think this will be making ANY headlines except for Playbill.com

Plus it would not be one of the first, Elaine Strich: At Liberty, Movin' Out etc.

Yes but teenybopper Wicked fans and us are not enough to make it worthwhile for them do make a full recording of the show.

. It got me thinking - why don't shows record complete live performances and put them on iTunes?

I miss being young and idealistic.

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Not only is a full recording with all the dialogue expensive, but will it be able to promote a show to people who haven't seen it? Maybe I'm the only one, but when I'm listening to a cast recording of a show I've never seen before, I have a tendency to skip over the spoken word tracks and songs with lengthy dialogue. They don't have much of a meaning to me when I haven't seen the show.

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Updated On: 2/6/07 at 01:44 AM

It's true that this has been done a few times (Dreamgirls, Les Miz, Miss Siagon)but those are all shows where a significant amount of music could not fit on the cast recording. To record a book musical with the dialouge would be dicey.
Loge, you could always just check out the sript from the library.

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Les Mis isn't a good example because it is a popular world-renowned production. Besides, the entire show is sung through, so a complete cast recording works for the show.

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oh good lord..

seriously.. if you have to ask as to why this would never work.. you must be seriously in the dark.

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*is puzzled that this is at 2 pages*

*wonders why parentheses have replaced asterisks*

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weren't so money hungry

Exactly. Still throws a wrench into feasibility.

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1. ALL four recordings of Les Miz I mentioned are in English. Please tell me how I have this wrong, since I have them all (Broadway, London, Concert, Complete).

2. I am not obsessed with Wicked, or any musical for that matter. I was merely stating we are not like the average musical fans, in that we are all here posting all the time.

3. If someone thinks I am too cheap to buy a ticket to fly to see a show, then maybe you should buy my ticket. Just because I haven't seen Wicked, doesn't mean I haven't seen other shows.

4. It's just a ding-dang-dong topic for discussion. The one thing I hate about this blasted board is that people can't have a simple discussion without trying to make someone feel stuipd or that their post is meritless. If you don't like a post - don't read it, don't reply - simple.

5. I fail to see how recording a show live, and not produce any physical CD would be so costly. Maybe I don't understand!

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Updated On: 2/6/07 at 06:22 PM

"It would cost litte to produce."

Exactly, even if a show is recorded live it's still costly.

[insert from another thread by the lovely MargoChanning]:
"For Broadway, however, studio or no studio, under Equity rules you STILL have to pay every performer the equivalent of I believe, two weeks salary for the performance. And I imagine the Musician's union will make sure that their players will get a couple of weeks salary as well (not using studio musicians doesn't mean you won't have to pay the live unionized musicians EXACTLY the same rate). There will still be costs for engineering and remastering the recording digitally, as well as the manufacturing (pressing the CD, making the CD inserts and jewel boxes, cover art), and distribution costs.

Altogether, because of all the union minimums involved, you're still looking at a six-figure cost (though perhaps a bit less with a very small show), even to produce and distribute a crappy sound board recording of a show (and you can completely forget about the League of American Theaters, producers, theatre owners, Equity, the musicians union et al EVER allowing anyone to make their own bootleg recordings of a show -- it will absolutely NEVER happen)."

AND if the performers, etc already got paid for a regular cast album, they'd have to get paid again for a live one. It's hard enough to get a cast album made, but that plus a full live one - pshhh dream on.

However, that was not the case with Loge, as we clear from the listed CDs.

Updated On: 2/15/14 at 07:45 PM

However, that was not the case with Loge, as we clear from the listed CDs.

She said she had for english recordings. Only two of them were english.

Eng·lish [ing-glish or, often, -lish] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
2.belonging or pertaining to, or spoken or written in, the English language.

english language

noun
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries [syn: English]

If you would like to read about the origin of the English Language in Britain, I have posted a link.
http://www.reference.com/browse/columbia/Englsh-lan