Into The Woods - The London Theatre Orchestra and Cast

After listening to some clips, I'm guessing that the "London Theatre Orchestra and Cast" are a dude with a pretty good synthesizer and some of his friends from the local jr. college.

Are the vocalists American or are they putting on American accents?

Album was released this year, it seems. Perhaps they're hoping for casual fans of the movie to mistakenly buy this album.

This group has been releasing terrible studio recordings of musicals for at least a decade. Back in (I think) 2005, I received their version of "The Lion King" as a present from a friend who mistook it for a London Cast Recording. I believe that's also on Spotify. It is hilarious, complete with made-up gibberish in place of the African language lyrics.

Here it is. It must be heard to be believed:



The Lion King by the London Theatre Orchestra on Spotify

Updated On: 12/8/14 at 10:47 PM

I received their version of "The Lion King" as a present from a friend who mistook it for a London Cast Recording.

I have to imagine that similar mistaken purchases are source of the majority of their sales. And you weren't kidding about that Lion King recording. Unbelievably bad. I'd love to know who's behind this organization. Quite the snakeoil salesman/woman.

Updated On: 12/9/14 at 03:22 AM

I have to imagine that similar mistaken purchases are source of the majority of their sales. And you weren't kidding about that Lion King recording. Unbelievably bad. I'd love to know who's behind this organization. Quite the snakeoil salesman/woman.

I'd like to know who these people are as well. I'd also kind of like to see the faces of the poor people when they put these things into the CD player and hear it for the first time. :P

Updated On: 12/10/14 at 06:20 PM