If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

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If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:37pm

mine is anne reinking in chicago- i like everyone else on there except for her.

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:41pm

hm.....probably kerry butler on the hairspray cast recording.

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#3

re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:41pm

Thats easy for me Adam Pascal in Rent (keep him in Aida I thought he did a much better job there) but in rent he was off key and drove me crazy (as you can tell from my post on another thread as well)

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#4

re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:43pm

Kerry Butler on "LSOH"...the phony accent drove me nuts!

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:44pm

Um...........I would have to say...........Michael Crawford in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. He is too nasally and drives me up the wall, even though it is my 2nd favorite cast recording. In fact, let's just do an overhaul of everyone in the cast except Raul and Meg.

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:44pm

Double Post

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Updated On: 8/18/04 at 03:44 PM

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:44pm

adam was so not off key in rent! what soundtrack are you listening to?

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:50pm

Tyne Daly - GYPSY

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:52pm

Girl, are we gonna start this again?

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 3:57pm

Matt - YOU GOT SERVED

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:02pm

The Frances Rufelle on the Les Miserables OBCR. Everytime I hear her I'm like KILL ME NOW.

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#12

re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:02pm

oh i agree with mnil. i can't stand frances as eponine.

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:03pm

I agree on Frances Ruffelle too.

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:03pm

I would axe Sarah Brightman in POTO. Talk about nasal...

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:05pm

Dean Jones on the COMPANY OBCR

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:27pm

Not really a "Cast recording" - I guess...

John Savage on HAIR Motion Picture Soundtrack, an absolutely wonderful album except a somewhat lackluster Claude.

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:35pm

Patti LuPone in Evita!..........jk :)

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:38pm

Christine Andreas in Scarlet Pimpernel. GARGH.

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:41pm

I'm gonna go with StickToPriest's answer...can't stand Dean Jones on that recording.

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:46pm

Wasn't Dean Jones replaced by Larry Kert (West Side Story) shortly after the show opened? did anyone hear/see him? was he better?

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:51pm

On the reissued COMPANY OBCR it has Larry Kert's 'Being Alive'. It is better than Jones, but only slightly.

Jones left because of his own martial problems with his wife. And the strain was too much. He made a deal with Hal Prince before opening that he would do the rcording and a few shows then be gone. And Kert became the only replacement in B'way history to get the Tony nod.

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 4:55pm

ann reinking in chicago. shes the worst!

#23

re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 5:01pm

gerome ragni and james rado - HAIR OBC

carole demas - GREASE OBC

jill o'hara - PROMISES, PROMISES

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 5:36pm

I would replace the nasal yodeling of Jodi Benson on CRAZY FOR YOU with her Broadway replacement (pictured, left).

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re: If you could have replaced 1 lead on any cast recording who would it be

Posted: 8/18/04 at 5:51pm

Michele Hooper on "Romeo and Juliet: the Musical". God her voice is annoying...

And Eric Baranyanka on "Romeo en Julia: van Haat tot Liefde". He doesn't even sound like he's singing.

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