joevitus said: "JBroadway said: "Cast recordings for flop shows are often seen as investments; if you make a cast recording, theatres are much more likely to license it. But who is going to license King Kong, when it would be virtually impossible to achieve from a technical standpoint?Unless they begin renting out the puppet along with the rights. But even then, I doubt any company has the resources for that.
And even if you just look at it from a consumer perspective, without taking licensing into account, it seems like interest in the music would be fairly low. Because the music is not what anyone cared about when it came to this show. It was the puppet. So if the cast recording can't capture what was effectively the ONLYdraw of the show, what's the point?"
Do you think this might lead to the show being filmed (I don't mean turned into a movie--a live performance recorded)? Surely the producersare going to want to make more off their investment than a one-time-only run?"
Maybe. I do think the best candidates for filming are ones where the visuals are more important than the music or book. And this one definitely fits the bill. And I would definitely say this should would be captured better on film than on a cast album.
That said, I'm still not sure it would be enough. There is already footage on the internet of the puppet - and if someone has seen that footage, and been impressed by it, I doubt that seeing the full show would do anything to make them any more impressed. For me, the magic was seeing it live, and being in the same room with the puppet. When Kong came down the apron toward the end of the show, I got chills, and I found myself holding my breath.
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