Just want some opinions...

What does everyone think of the recording of Urinetown? I just bought it for my station and I've heard great things about the show...I'm hoping everyone likes the actual recording too :c)

For example...I loved seeing The Scarlet Pimpernel, but wow! does the recording get on my last nerve! Christine Andreas sounds like she's underwater drowning and someone is shaking her at the same time...enough with the vibrato!!!

:c)

see, and that is why I was thrilled that they made the Encores version of SP. I adore Rachel York...so I prefer her singing over Christine's.

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Linda isn;t on the show's CD. On the first one, its Christine...and then on Encore's, its Rachel and Christine.

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Actually~
Linda Eder is on the Concept Album. And she does not sing it in a french voice.

Hope to clear it all up.

I LOVE the Urinetown album. One of the only musical moments ever to give me chills happens during "Follow Your Heart" right after Hope is saying "There it is. So faint...it's saying...*(the moment)...Follow, into the open air." It kills me.

Don't know about the recodring of "Urinetown"...but I'm seeing the show in Philly on Nov. 18th. It's getting "good as Bd'w" reviews everywhere!

RE: Christine Andreas, yep her vibrato is a bit "unique" BUT this gal is an amasingly talented lady with a great amount of stage presence. She's up for a Barrymore Award for "Pal Joey" at the Prince theater this past season. Just as nice as talented too. I too loved Rachel York in SP, but I'm partial to Andreas' Marguertte, so sassy and French. Besides that fact that the rapport with Sills, Andreas and Mann was never topped. imho.

"Storybook" is the one song I don't care for from Linda Eder. She can't pull it off as well as the others. again , just me.

Off to cover Saigon tonight at the Merriam! (also heard this is a keeper).

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I agree, I would have liked Carolee to be on the recording, but Nancy is good. As long as there is Hunter Foster and Jeff McCarthy I'm happy :)
The recording is nothing in comparison to the actual show in Urinetown's case, but the recording is fun and worth listening to every once in a while.

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