Little Moments on Cast Recordings That You Love — Page 12

On the 1994 J & H recording with Warlow and Eder i love during Someone Like You the final time she sings And Id Feel so ALIVE!!! the echo on that is incredible. I also love when her when she sings in a new life "Thats why I ve been here for a long long while or something to that extent thats what it sounds like shes saying her voice just blows me away on that line.

On the bright lights cd I love during Odeon when Eden belts out "Would you be less quite if you could" its my favorite part of the entire recording.

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In the Wicked finale, when the girls sing "I have been changed" leading into "no one mourns the wicked!" I think it sounds lovely, particularly Idina's note. Another Wicked one would be Kristin's "anticipated" in Thank Goodness, and the "I hope you're happy in the end" harmony from Defying Gravity.

From Bat Boy: Deven May's "the last thing that you'll EVER see" to the end of the song in Apology To A Cow. Also, pretty much anything Deven sings in A Joyful Noise, Reprise. Love me some Deven May.

From the Bare sampler CD: In Are You There, the Michael/Aaron harmony on "there for me" and then Michael's big "send a sign so that I know you're there".

Lippa's The Wild Party: After Idina's riffing outburst in The Juggernaut, she makes this very strange, almost "ribbit" type of noise. Yes, "ribbit" like a frog. It sounds like she was trying to say "baby" but she got a little excited. It cracks me up.

Ragtime: "our son will rise on the wheels of a dream." Makes me cry every time I hear it. And frankly, who doesn't love "Sarah come down to me!" Brian Stokes Mitchell is what I would imagine God's singing voice to sound like, if God were to sing.

Two from "Follies":

"Hey. up there! Way up there! Whaddaya say, up there?" - Have to say sometimes I wish the entire song sounded like those notes.

"If you don't kiss me, Ben, I think I'm going to die." - but, ahem, the version that really gives me the chills is from Mandy Patinkin's Oscar & Steve album.

And from Sunday in the Park with George, OBC with Bernadette:
"I love your eyes, George." Oh, and of course those final double trumpet notes from "Sunday."

I LOVE when Sondheim growls " You ain't eighty-eight cents from me, Rose" on the OBC recording of GYPSY.

For YEARS I wondered why they hired such a young sounding guy to play Rose's father.

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Seeing as I am on an In The Heights kick:

-During the opening song, when Usnavi sings, "You must take the A-Train"
-"We came to workin', to livin', we got a lot in common."
-During 'It Won't Be Long Now', Usnavi's line, "I'm runnin' to make it home.."
-"Shut up, go home, and pull your damn pants UP."
-"It's late and this grate won't come down.."
-"I got a baseball bat on a rack in the back.."
-"We are powerless, we are powerless!"
-Usnavi's little rap to the bartender/girl during the bar dance.
-Usnavi talking about his parents during 'Hundreds of Stories'.
-Usnavi's opening to Alabanza.
-"I told you I run this town!"
-"I'm fine, I'm trying to open this champagne.." that whole verse.
-"Where I drop this hip-hop, in my ma' and pa' shop."

Bump.

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From Myths And Hymns in the song Pegasus, when Audra comes in as the fly with some skat. "bud-uh-bup...etc." I love it.

Also, from The Apple Tree during the Passionella third, when the chorus asks the mysterious woman who she is, and Barbara Harris squeaks out "I'm Passionella!" in a mousy, child-like voice. Love it!

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96000 - Benny's "For real though, imagine how it must be like going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets, no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck"

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In the heights - Usnavi's "In the Heights, everyday paciencia y fe!"

Awesome stuff ITH.

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And he's a bit of a clothes horse.

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Though not a recording per say (thpough if there's a CD of this ,let me know) but I love from the video of the 1990 Opera Recording of A Little Night Music with Sally Anne Howes and Maureen Moore, the moment in "Every Day a little Death", where Maureen holds out "I'd Die..." It gives me chills every time!!!

Also, in "Weekend", where she shouts "Ya ha!" It's so delciously Charlotte, I'm suprised noone else has said it like that.

As you can tell, Maureen Moore, in my opinion, is the only person who could ever play that role.

On the Spring Awakening recording, when Moritz starts singing on "Touch Me," when the backing vocalists sing "Oh, I go" in harmony with his "Where I go." The sound of it almost brings me to tears.

its soo random...

but in 'Lizzie Borden" in the song - 'so easily'

when he comes in with 'i know iv seen'

:)

love it

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o o oh! and in the title of show podcast ([toscast]) heidi belts out a old song they took out. the first t ime i heard it it gave me chills. she such a amazing belter. next patti!