Listen to the ENTIRE OBCR for Nice Work!

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:34am

WNYC Now Live-Streaming Nice Work If You Can Get It Cast Recording, Featuring Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick
By Andrew Gans
20 Sep 2012

WNYC is currently offering listeners a chance to preview The Original Broadway Cast Recording of the Tony-winning new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, which will be available for digital download Sept. 25 and on CD Oct. 30.

To listen to the recording: http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/blogs/soundcheck-blog/2012/sep/18/check-ahead-nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/

The album, released by Shout! Factory and distributed by Sony Music Distribution, is produced for records by six-time Grammy nominee Robert Sher, David Chase and Tony Award nominee Bill Elliott.

The track listing follows:

1. Overture
2. “Sweet and Lowdown”
3. “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
4. “Nice Work If You Can Get It” (Reprise)
5. “Demon Rum”
6. “Someone to Watch Over Me”
7. Ritzy Bathroom – Instrumental
8. “Delishious”
9. “I’ve Got to Be There”
10. Ritzy Bedroom – Instrumental
11. “Treat Me Rough”
12. “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”
13. “Do It Again”
14. “’S Wonderful”
15. “Fascinating Rhythm”
16. “Lady Be Good”
17. “But Not for Me”
18. “By Strauss” / “Sweet and Lowdown” (Reprise)
19. “Do, Do, Do”
20. “Hangin’ Around With You”
21. “Looking for a Boy”
22. “Blah, Blah, Blah”
23. “Will You Remember Me?”
24. “I’ve Got to Be There” (Reprise)
25. “I’ve Got a Crush on You”
26. “Someone to Watch Over Me” (Reprise)
27. “They All Laughed”
28. Crate Dance

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:37am

Is Will Chase on the cast recording? No? Ok bye.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:52am

I like what I'm listening to so far... the only thing was that towards the end when Matthew sings "It's Nice Work..." it sounds like "S'Nice Work." I had to check the lyrics to make sure! haha.

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:14pm

Absolutely stunning. The orchestra is so (seemingly) raw and unedited, and I absolutely adore it.

Also, basically all of the dance instrumentals are there. The material is treated with such respect. I can't stop listening! Updated On: 9/20/12 at 12:14 PM

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:34pm

Wonderfully produced. The orchestra sounds fantastic.

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:12pm

WOW. WOW. WOW. This sounds absolutely gorgeous!

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 2:35pm

Eh, as underwhelming as it was on stage. Kaye is great, though.

[YouAndMePal]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 9:10pm

This recording is far better than the show, which features a frighteningly wooden performance from Broderick. Not to mention a stupid story. The goal of the writers was to create a piece that would be constructed in the same way as a 30's musical would be. The issue is that even though the Gershwins wrote songs for their shows that didn't serve the function of character and were intended to be stand alone hits, they wrote their songs FOR SHOWS. Each group of songs they wrote for each show had a loose but evident connection to the others. If not dramatically then energetically. The issue for them was not "How do we fit these songs we've written into a story?" but "How do we write songs that will stand on their own but still work in this story?" The greatest hits approach the writers took in using the Gershwin material dilutes the recreation of a Gershwin era musical. Marshall should have gone for something they actually wrote. Yes, I have a soft spot for Kelli O'Hara and loved her Someone to Watch Over Me, and yes Judy Kuhn was funny, and yes I loved the arrangements and how Gershwin's instrumental was integrated into the piece, but really people, this was a steamy pile of doo-doo and one of the worst things I've seen in my 15 years of attending Broadway theatre. Am I crazy or does anyone agree?

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 9:15pm

Crazy For You did it better.

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:07pm

I rather listen to Jodi Benson sing "someone to watch over me" why didn't Marshall just mount a revival?

[loliveve]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 2:03am

I love Jodi Benson's version of "Someone to Watch Over Me" (okay, I grew up watching "The Little Mermaid," so that probably influenced me a lot), but I also love Kelli O'Hara's version. This cast recording is stunning in my opinion. The orchestrations are spot on, and just reminded me why I was thrilled when the overture started. I also think the rendition of "Will You Remember Me" is delightfully haunting when Kelli O'Hara sings.

@jacobsnchz14- Thanks for sharing the link!

[After Eight]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 8:27am

"but really people, this was a steamy pile of doo-doo and one of the worst things I've seen in my 15 years of attending Broadway theatre. Am I crazy or does anyone agree?"

I can't say if you're crazy or not, but I certainly don't agree.

One if the worst things in 15 years, you say? Did you see Leap of Faith, Bring It On, Wonderland, Lysistrata Jones, etc., etc?

[mc1227]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 4:56pm

Youandmepal....it's Judy Kaye and I agree, she's wonderfully funny. I LOVE this OBC and I love this show. Very underrated my most on this board but it is most definitely a crowd pleaser. The orchestrations are phenomenal and everyone is in fine voice and character....

[chrisampm2]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 3:20am

Thanks for the heads up jacobsnchz14. I found the production a whimsical delight.

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 3:44pm

How anyone could call this one of the worst things they'd ever seen is unfathomable to me. Probing, deep theatre? Uhhh no. But it's such great fun. And this cast recording was totally worth the wait. It sounds great.

[YouAndMePal]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 5:22pm

Interesting I really am the one on this train... I guess I just have a bias towards a view of musical in which drama takes precedent, in other words, the view that a musical theatre artist should be to be to tell stories and develop characters, and if they're great, in a more indelibly sound way than musicals that have been established before in the form. The want for musicals to have a delightful, reduntant and "fun" atmosphere discredits the depth and credibility of the artform. Yes there is a place in every artform for the brainless and delightful piece but no artform other than musical theatre honors such debauchery as elite and worsely, tries to define itself through such debauchery. All of the previous examples listed by a user of recent bad shows were at least shows with original music. Granted music that is deplorable, But at least original. Don't get me wrong, I think musical theatre is ultimate way of conveying human feeling, but the jukebox phenom and the way the broadway community has just accepted it baffles me. Why make the artform a museum? Yes the Gershwin songs are great, yes they're less deplorable in a broadway theatre than abba songs, but even bring it on beats both out in trying to be legitimate artistic pieces.

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 5:46pm

The desire for fun musicals does not in anyway discredit the art form as a whole. It isn't an either or situation. You can love Sondheim, and still also enjoy an airy confectionary such as Nice Work. The same goes for any art form. I love Ingmar Bergman films, does that mean I can't also enjoy a Spielberg sci-fi as well? I find this "either or" attitude far more disconcerting than the idea that someone would enjoy something just because its fun.

And call me crazy, but I would much rather see a well-done jukebox (as rare as they are) than a terrible piece of "original" musical theatre such as Lysistrata Jones or Leap of Faith. I mean, "new music" doesn't equal "original" in my books.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 6:11pm

^Neither of those shows were technically "original" since they were both adapted from preexisting material. I agree though that an original score doesn't always equal a good one.

Obviously, I enjoy the score for Nice Work because it's all great Gershwin standards, but it is essentially a "jukebox" musical in that respect, and it's even been done before with the same catalog. I just thought Crazy For You was better. That's all.

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 6:35pm

That was part of my point. I don't see why new music somehow qualifies something as more original. I mean, how about a new story? I of course realize Nice Work isn't that either, but I don't see why one is more relevant than the other. I don't want to like a show just because it's got new music. No A for efforts from me!

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 7:22pm

This is probably the best Broadway show right now. I haven't seen Newsies, Chaplin or Bring It On though. Although I don't plan to see the latter at all.

Updated On: 9/22/12 at 07:22 PM

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 12:02am

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 1:40am

Just saw the show yesterday and was extremely dissapointed. Broderick is giving a very stiff performance, and although O'Hara sounds fantastic, her stage presence left something to be desired. The show had some great moments, but they were only moments and there weren't enough of them. Overall a very forgettable show, for me.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/23/12 at 9:51am

I wish Gyllenhaal was starring in this show instead of the play he's in.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 9/25/12 at 11:19am

I am LOVING this cast recording! The orchestrations and vocal arrangements are delightful. I also hear some bars of, "Kickin' the Clouds Away" during "Fascinating Rhythm".