"Lestat" Recording Heard

[genius2]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:47pm

Last night on the XM Broadway channel, in a review of the 2006 theater season, they played a song from "Lestat" Does this infer the album is forthcoming?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:48pm

It could be an implication, but it's up to you as to what you infer.

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:09pm

A snippet of Sail Me Away has been played there several times since autumn...I don't get satellite radio, but a friend recorded it. It sounds identical to the demo that was edited into the revised tv ad for the show.

[Heybeenfood]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:00pm

Bryan? Where are you?

[Weez]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:32pm

Ages ago they had a full song from the show (I forget the title but would know it if I saw it) as a sample on Amazon.com. They've recorded the album and obviously it's getting a teeny amount of play, but there're still no plans for a release. Not even on iTunes, which sucks.

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:40pm

Weez, I believe it was "Crimson Kiss," but it was performed by Elton John...not Carolee. It was part of a charity promotion. I didn't listen to it, preferring to wait until I heard it in the show.

Anyhow, the clip that's turned up on XM is not from the actual cast album. As I said, it matches up with the bit used in the second tv ad and that was recorded well before the album.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:10pm

What would it cost them to put the album on iTunes? I don't see how that could be expensive at all. I mean, they did it with Capeman.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:14pm

I was just thinking the same thing.

[Fabrizio2]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:21pm

Bryan??

[jimnysf]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:41pm

There is enough sadness in the world today without unleashing the dreary "Lestat" on CD or iTunes!

[TechEverlasting]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:44pm

>What would it cost them to put the album on iTunes? I don't see how that could be >expensive at all. I mean, they did it with Capeman.

There's at least one Lestat cast member who has posted here who would know more about this. I've been told that Lestat's closing notice was posted the day of the initial recording session, and thus very little in the way of vocals actually got recorded. The producers had the mistaken notion that if they didn't release the CD they wouldn't have to pay the musicians, so they immediately stopped all work. Fortunately the New York musician's union eventually got the band paid for the day's session, but my guess is that what's left of this project is nowhere near to being releaseable.

It might well be cheaper to start over with a new band and vocalists at this point, assuming that anyone other than a few online fans has any interest in a Lestat CD.

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:14pm

" I've been told that Lestat's closing notice was posted the day of the initial recording session, and thus very little in the way of vocals actually got recorded."

I've spoken to Hugh about this a couple of time since then. He said they did finish recording it and he was really pleased with how it turned out...he said, "Everyone sounded their best that day."

And that's why, during the final week, Hugh and other kept telling fans to expect mid-July release. That's what he'd been told.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:16pm

When I read the thread title, I assumed bryan posted it.

Whoops.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:19pm

Who's Bryan?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:22pm

Bryan is a BWW legend

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:53pm

Well obv. he has been slacking on the job.

[Sylar2]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 12:30am

Lord please save us from this dreadful piece of crap that tried to pass as a "musical". Seriously, I don't think I've ever seen so many get up and leave or NOT return after intermission.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:52am

Ok, if "Lestat" get's a CD recording, and "Carrie" doesn't, something is truly wrong in the world.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 5:10am

I don't care how bad the show was. The show is already practically legendary and I for one, who never got to experience Lestat, would like to hear it. Plus I believe that all Broadway shows should be preserved for posterity.

[TechEverlasting]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 8:36am

"I've spoken to Hugh about this a couple of time since then. He said they did finish recording it and he was really pleased with how it turned out"

Gingersnap, your sources are better than mine. All I have is a friend who knows someone who was in the band. The fact that the producers tried to skip out on paying for the recording session really added insult to injury for the musicians, given that the show closed so quickly.

Do you know if it was just the one day of recording that was done? I gather that when cast albums are done the actors will often sing along while the band records its tracks. In later sessions the vocals are often rerecorded or at least fixed up. I would guess that if there was only one day in the studio, at the very least there must be some important fixes that needed to be done. It was a great cast and I'm sure they sang well.

I would like to see the CD released. Although this will seem farfetched, I wish Broadway would consider how live rock tours have dealt with the problem of bootleggers. Many bands now record live CDs of each performance and sell them after their shows. Bootleggers can't compete with the quality or price. Wouldn't it be great if every musical made a nice live DVD of an early preview? Perhaps these DVDs would only be made available after a show closed or recouped. It's a shame how much work is lost forever when shows close.

[Gingersnap]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 12:08pm

TechEverlasting - they recorded the entire thing in one day. I had been in NYC a lot that week for unrelated reasons and caught the show a few times while I was there. Hugh told me on May 21 that they'd be recording the next day. He was concerned with the complete lack of PR from the day of the premiere on and said, "We could record on Monday and get the closing notice on Tuesday." Which is what happened. I went back on Wednesday and he said they'd finished recording and he said they had finished recording (I believe he said four sessions, but it was hard having a conversation in the middle of a crowd of really rude girls), that he was really happy with how it turned out, and that they were told it would be released in July.

And it wasn't just the musicians who had a problem with pay. Apparently, the cast did, too. When I visited him in Seattle, he asked me if I'd heard anything new about the fate of the cast recording - he'd found out the way everyone else did that it was shelved. He said all the mixing and editing was done and he'd he'd heard a partial playback. And he said, "Did I tell you? They tried to take back our pay." He started to explain what happened, but we were interruped and never got back to the subject.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 1:42pm

And he said, "Did I tell you? They tried to take back our pay."

WOW.

Jodie Langel, you need to write a sequel...

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 2:17pm

the music wasn't bad...but the production was well you know what i am talking about.........

[gman07]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 3:31pm

Elton John is why, I would think.
Updated On: 1/4/07 at 03:31 PM