If you ran your own Theater Record Label...

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 2:07pm

What would your wish list of recordings be? Would it be of a show that you loved but didn't get a recording, or one where the recording made was horribly truncated? Or even a studio restoration of an old time yet unheard gem?

Pick any Three. Here are mine:

THE GOLDEN APPLE - First Complete Recording
THE CRADLE WILL ROCK - First recording with full orchestrations (either the originals or the splendid ones from Encores!)
HOW DO YOU DO, I LOVE YOU - Premiere Recording

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 2:12pm

I'd get the original cast of JAMES JOYCES THE DEAD back together to record that gorgeous score.

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 2:18pm

I think the complet Follies OBCR is high io everyone's wish list.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 2:36pm

I'd pretty much give full recordings to all the shows on bk's "Unsung Musicals" series.

[Fantod]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 2:40pm

If I owned a recording studio now, I would get studio casts of all of the Cole Porter scores and Rodgers and Hart scores, as I said in a different thread because most haven't received full recordings. I would also record better studio recordings of the Jerome Kern scores (better than the Comic Opera Guild recordings)

EDIT: Removed responses not related to question.


Updated On: 11/15/14 at 02:40 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 4:18pm

Is this thread about if you had a record label or a time machine?

[Fantod]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 4:22pm

Comment removed. Updated On: 11/15/14 at 04:22 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 5:00pm

I had intended it to be recordings you would make now, presumably with current theater performers. I guess you can dream cast your recordings if you see fit as well.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 5:04pm

I wiill always wish THE APPLE TREE with Kristin Chenoweth, Marc Kudisch, Brian d'Arcy James was recorded...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 5:10pm

If I owned my own record label I'd go broke recording flops. Near the top of my list would have been a recording of The Scarlet Pimpernel 3.0 with all of the revised material that went unrecorded when they made all the changes and didn't record a new cast album. It's hard to convince someone how fun and funny that show actually was with only the OBC recording as proof. Even the encore reissue didn't preserve the revised version of "The Creation of Man" which is a shame.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 6:14pm

Romance in Hard Times

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 7:07pm

Wish(ed) List:
The Apple Tree 2006 Revival (Kristin Chenoweth)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 2011 Revival (Jessie Mueller)
La Cage Aux Folles 2004 Revival (cause it won the tony)
Jesus Christ Superstar 2012 Revival (Josh Young)
Sunset Boulevard OBC (Alice Ripley)
The Phantom of the Opera OBC (Judy Kaye)

Wants:
All unrecorded Rodgers & Hammerstein's & Cole Porter musicals

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 7:53pm

^All of those are great! I definitely would have recorded the 2012 Jesus Christ Superstar cast. I'm still heartbroken over that.

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 8:59pm

I'm still disappointed that the 2010 Encores! production of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE wasn't recorded, so I'd definitely get that cast into the studio.

[smallworld]

Posted: 11/15/14 at 9:17pm

I want a full recording of MATA HARI with a full orchestra and all of the material that was in the original production.

I'd also love a full studio recording of LOLITA, MY LOVE. One can dream, right?

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 11/16/14 at 6:36am

Two items would be near the top of my list.

* One would be an English recording of Tanz der Vampire; at this point, which translation doesn't matter. Could even just be taking the demos that are out there from the DOTV period, putting new vocals on them, upgrading the sound quality, and putting them out.

* The other would be a full-scale release of an event that I am told was both recorded and filmed for archival purposes and possible broadcast on an episode of PBS' Great Performances, but has yet to be seen: the 2006 one-night-only benefit concert of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood, which had an ensemble big enough for twelve productions of the show (including many veterans of the long-running Nineties tour which featured Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson), reunited the film leads (Neeley, Yvonne Elliman, and Barry Dennen) in their signature roles, and added some terrific special guests (Ben Vereen, Clint Holmes, Jack Black). It was a never-to-be-repeated once-in-a-lifetime event, and the world should get to see (and hear) it... yards ahead of the 2012 version.

In no particular order, other releases would include a series of "as-licensed" recordings. Some shows exist in finalized versions for licensing to amateur theaters that have never been recorded in a manner reflecting those licensed versions, and if Sh-K-Boom can go back and shake up the Footloose cast recording with newly recorded numbers and deletions to better match the licensed version, then someone can go to the trouble of recording licensed versions of shows for reference, since there are many shows that don't have even rudimentary reference recordings in the licensed format (for example, MTI still hands out the Colm Wilkinson/Linda Eder Jekyll & Hyde as a reference CD, and that's about as far removed from either version MTI licenses as you can get). Among those that come to mind are Hair and Webber's Whistle Down the Wind.

Hair in particular I would have big plans for. I own most of the original first-run and early revival (Nineties) recordings and love something different about each arrangement, and would construct a sort of conglomerate of what worked best about each version of the score in order to try to create the definitive orchestration. (A man can dream, after all.)

Updated On: 11/16/14 at 06:36 AM

[TheBoyFromNC]

Posted: 11/16/14 at 8:25am

The Apple Tree (2006 Broadway Revival) - because who doesn't love Kristin Chenoweth, Marc Kudisch, & Brian D'Arcy James?

Bare: The Musical (2012 New World Stages Production) - they announced that they'd release a cast recording, but just released 3 tracks on their website (which are still there)

The Lee Pockriss/Carolyn Leigh musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby (just titled Gatsby) never got a recording (that I can find), but I've heard the score is great.

[gleek4114]

Posted: 11/16/14 at 10:16am

- Bells are Ringing (Encores)
- Little Me (Encores)
- The Most Happy Fella (Encores)
- A Bed and a Chair (Encores)

Basically all Encores shows that were not recorded (the majority).

[bwayjoey]

Posted: 11/16/14 at 11:12am

Radiant Baby!

[#1CarrieFan]

Posted: 11/16/14 at 3:54pm

At the top of my dream wish list would be an English recording of Metro. I have the original CD from Europe but would love to hear the lyrics that I so enjoyed in the two times I saw this very limited Broadway run.

[hushpuppy]

Posted: 11/16/14 at 5:49pm

Sorry Gleek4114, but every recording I've listened to of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA pales in comparison to the OCR. IMHO, it may be the most perfect recording of any show, ever.

I would like to have complete recordings of Merman's early shows such as GIRL CRAZY, SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS, and STARS IN YOUR EYES, with the original orchestrations.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 11/16/14 at 5:58pm

Candide (Kristin Chenoweth & Patti Lupone)- video but no cast recording