Leap of Faith Song Clip!

I get a blank page that says "No promotion published".

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Oh hmm Well if you go on Facebook and "Like" the Center Theater Group it will be on there.

Not my favorite song in the show, but nice to hear the LA cast.

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... it was probably recorded in a rehearsal. What do you expect?

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It sounds like a movie score. I would really like to hear more of the score though! It's a nice teaser clip for the website though.

Is "Take a leap of faith! Take a leap of faith! Take a leap of faith!" the new "Nana na na nana na na na. Nana na na nana na na na?"

No, these were NOT recorded in rehearsal - they recorded short versions of this and Step Into The Light at a recording studio. But yes, after only a week of rehearsal and these arrangements were done specifically for the radio and TV spot by Michael Kosarin.

If you'd like to keep posting misinformation and argue the point - well, I wouldn't. :)

Updated On: 8/13/10 at 12:20 AM

lol, I love how now that musicman_bwayfan deleted his/her post, it looks like I'm the one bk was referencing. I have no inside information on the origin of this clip, so I was just guessing; I'm not arguing.

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Updated On: 8/13/10 at 10:17 AM

I know, but now that it's gone I just wanted to clarify for anybody reading. I like Step Into the Light -- hopefully that appears soon. It's a fun number. According to CTG's Facebook page, they also shot a commercial last week; hopefully someone in LA will be able to show that to us if it doesn't get posted to their site.

Are you seeing it in LA, bk?

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Updated On: 8/13/10 at 11:20 AM

Interesting background, bk!

As I listen to that sound clip, here’s what bothers me about it: You hear the main melody; “Take that leap of faith, walk out on the ledge, cast aside your doubts, stand right on the edge” etc. But underneath it, there’s…something else going on. I can’t call it harmony or counterpoint because by definition both of those are meant to compliment the main melodic line, and what I hear underneath doesn’t do that. It sounds like it’s a different song, in a different key, and with a different meter altogether. To me it sounds like a deranged butterfly is banging around underneath the main line, trying to find its way out of there.

I realize that this is a trademark of the “gospel” style, which I freely admit is not a favorite of mine (and if there is a term for this feature I’m not aware of it), but it seems to me that it is….out of balance in that clip. I hope that’s all it is, and that it won’t sound like that in the theater.

Now, this is just my personal opinion, and I may get flamed for it, but I still wanted to share it: I think that the gospel music in Leap should not sound like hardcore gospel, it should sound like “gospel-light”. It should sound more like Broadway’s idea of gospel, not actual, true gospel music. After all, this is a Broadway theater, not the First AME Church, and given the flavor of the non-gospel numbers in the show, making the gospel numbers sound too hardcore might throw everything out of balance. I'm probably explaining this badly - please forgive me if it isn't making any sense.

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Cool, bk -- hope you enjoy. I saw the reading in January, and while it needs some tweaks, I absolutely loved it (and I'm also a huge Menken fan). I think it's Raul's best performance since Company, but it's also a really solid show.

As far as the sound clip, humbug, that's how it sounded live (the way you described wanting it to be -- and in a good way, the right mix of authentic and theatrical), so I imagine/hope that's how it will continue to sound in person. I completely trust that Menken knows what he's doing.

jamie - no set dates, just tentative dates at this point.

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Updated On: 8/13/10 at 01:08 PM

The opening number is a song called "Rise Up," which is actually one of my favorite songs in the show, and Raul has some great vocal moments in it. The set-up is pretty much what it is in the film, basically that Jonas' bus breaks down in this small town in Kansas on the way to a big (lucrative) tour stop. But because of severe economic depression in the town, the shop that can fix his bus is only open a few days a week, and won't be open again for several days, so Jonas, Sam and the "angels" are stuck there. Jonas decides to make an enterprise of this situation, and to capitalize on the fact that this town is in such dire straights; he thinks he can make the people believe that praying to (and paying) God will help to turn things around and end the drought, so he decides to set up shop and do his "show" in Sweet Water.

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