Little Moments on Cast Recordings That You Love — Page 16

Bare
In the title song: "That I LOVE YOOOUUU and I loved you from the start..." and the buildup before it. Goosebumps. (Pretty much the entire song gives me goosebumps).

Book of Mormon
Spooky Mormon Hell Dream: "I can't believe Jesus called me a DICK!" Oh my god, it's hysterical. That recording is one the funniest things I've ever heard.

Bye Bye Birdie
Honestly Sincere: "HUG ME! Suffer!" I don't know why but it makes me laugh every time.

A Chorus Line OBC
At The Ballet: Maggie's final "...at the BAAAALLLEEEEEEEEETT!" It makes me tear up.

Company Revival
Getting Married Today: All of it. Just all of it. Especially the whispered "...and don't tell Paul." Genius.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Love Is My Legs: "My legs are full of LOVE!" This entire song is hilarious, especially on stage.

The Drowsy Chaperone
I Am Adolpho: "I'd do it now but it would take HOURS." I die! Plus, the entire show.

Funny Girl OBC
People: The final "...are the luckiest people in the world." Guh, just the entire phrase is breathtaking, I love how soft it is.

Guys and Dolls 1992 Revival
Marry the Man Today: "Now doesn't that kind of apply to you and I?" "You and MEEEEE" "...whatever." How she says "whatever" kills me.

Gypsy 2008 Revival:
If Momma Was Married: The harmonies in the entire song are amazing, especially on "...what's one more or LESS?"

Hair Revival
The Flesh Failures/Eyes Look Your Last/Let the Sun Shine In: Whenever the tribe comes in with "eyes look your last" and Gavin is singing "...across the Atlantic sea, and I'm a genius genius..." I just think all of it is so beautiful. I'd put the entire recording as one of my favorite moments, it's astounding.

In the Heights
Breathe: "The neighborhood waved and said, Nina, be brave and you're gonna be fine, and maybe it's me, but it all seems like lifetimes ago..." The whole song makes me cry.

Into the Woods OBC
Giants In the Sky: ALL OF IT! Especially "...the roof, the house, and the world you never thought to explore..." Haunting.

Legally Blonde
Finale: It's so lame but I LOVE the proposal, especially Emmett's "oh my oh my oh my gooodddddd!"

The Light In the Piazza
In the title song, where Kelli sings "...and then it grows, and then it fills the air, who knows what you call it, I don't care..." I love that entire part, shes sounds incredible.

Next To Normal
Who's Crazy: Not sure why, but I've always loved the part where JRP sings "...and IIIII was a wild 25..." I think I love the emphasis he puts on the "I" in the phrases.

The Producers ST (not a recording but shhh)
Keep It Gay: The "He's having a stroke." "What?!" "OF GENIUS!" is one of my favorite things ever.

Reefer Madness ST (also not a recording, I know)
The Stuff (Reprise): "You once had all the brains, now they're just CARPET STAAAAAIIINS! You're in no SHAAAPE TOOOO FIIIIGHT!" I just want to cheer or something, it's so badass.

Rent OBC
I'll Cover You (Reprise): Jesse just kills it on "when your HEEEAAARRRT has expired" and it's gorgeous.

Sunday In the Park With George OBC
Move On: "Anything you do, let it come from you...then it will be new...give us more to see." It makes me cry.

Sweeney Todd Revival
The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: I love how Michael sings "What happened then, well that's the play and he wouldn't want to give it away." So perfectly creepy.

[title of show]
Two Nobodies In New York: "TV actors in our show what could be SWEE-AH-TUH!" Such a great joke.

Urinetown
Run Freedom Run: "Freedom is SCAAARY. It's a blast of cool wind that burns your face to wake you up." "Literally?" "Yes." I laugh every time.

I should probably stop.

Updated On: 8/16/11 at 01:26 AM

Alison Fraser in LIZZIE BORDEN:


"Remain still?
Remain cool?

...I think not."


Gah. Terrifying and gorgeous and sad.

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Side Show - during Tunnel of Love. The buildup in the middle of the song...Emily:"I am yours..you are mine....its a sin...its divine..." Alice: "I want miine..." Emily: "so diviiine" Alice: "WHERE IS MIIIINE!!!" Major chills everytime. Alice sure did have a belt on her, didn't she? You can hear the emotion in her voice...it's just f'ing amazing.

I definitely agree with the Side Show sentiment - "Where is mine?!" is probably my favorite moment on any cast recording ever. Her belt was so beautiful and strong.

There are a lot of moments on the new Hair cast recording that really get me. When the tribe sings 'Freedooooom' under Claude's 'Tell me why' at the end of Where Do I Go... It's so powerful. At the beginning of Three Five Zero Zero when Kacie Sheik wails "Ripped open by metal explosion", it gives me chills every time. The entire song reduces me to tears.

On the Next to Normal cast recording - "It only hurts when I breathe, it only hurts when I try..." is my favorite part of the show (besides the end of Light).

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - The entire song is fantastic, but in The Corrupt Bargain; "I'm the president!"

In TL5Y, I love when Sherie sings "...belting as high as they can!" in Climbing Uphill.

On the Passion CR, "I read to live, to get away from life". Donna Murphy is flawless on that recording.

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The overture of Bring Back Birdie, making the score sound amazing... and then being disappointed when hearing each individual song.

This is my favorite thread of all time.

Bare: the end of "One" with the stunning harmonies. And "Father, we were so in love- and that's what I find so odd, our love was pure and nothing else brought me closer to God" in Absolution.
Rent: "the heart may freeze, or it can burn. the pain will ease, if I can learn" from Another Day
Legally Blonde: "ah ah ah ah ah MUCH better" from So Much Better- just always makes me giggle. And the harmonies in "oh my God" after "please make me the happiest woman I know" in Find My Way.
N2N: "Hi, dad" in I Am The One (Reprise).
BoM: "two by two we march..." at the end of Two By Two- I listen to it over and over. Also "you remember Lucifer, he is even SPOOKier" is the absolute funniest line :)
Catch Me: the first minute of "Someone Else's Skin" is just beautiful and heartbreaking. Love the way Aaron's voice sounds on it. It reminds me of "There's A World" from N2N...
Spring Awakening: not from the OBC, but there's a youtube video of Hunter Parrish rehearsing Left Behind, and the way he sings the word "touch" in "can't help the itch to touch, to kiss" kills me.

THERE ARE SO MANY.

Updated On: 8/17/11 at 10:03 AM

Next to Normal: Another one for the "Hi dad" bit at the end of "I Am the One (Reprise)"

Book of Mormon: The bit during "Two by Two" where the music stops and the beat is kept by the Mormon boys' claps and the counterpoint. (3:58 mark)

Women on the Verge - the eerie sounding notes at the beginning of the overture give me chills every time!

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Aida: The final chords that end Elaborate Lives. So beautiful and echo the melody of the last lines of of the song.

Beauty and the Beast: The haunting first part of the prologue, repeated throughout the score but especially noticeable here

Book of Mormon: Rory O'Malley screaming "Crush it!!!" in Turn It Off. I crack up every time

Catch Me: The key change and final verse of Goodbye. Also Norbert's "He's a kid..." at the end of My Favorite Time of Year

Hairspray: Blood on the Pavement. Hilarious hidden track!

In the Heights: Like many others have said, "The hydrants are open" section

Hair: Too many to list but have to love the end of Let the Sun Shine and the moment when Gavin calls out "I'm here!"

Next to Normal: The moment when Dan says Gabe's name, of course. Natalie's piano solo. And "The medicine failed and the doctors lied" in I'm Alive Reprise- something in Aaron's voice at that line

Phantom: the cadenza at the end of Think of Me.

Rent: I'll Cover You Reprise when Seasons of Love comes in as counterpoint. And the mooing :)

Spring Awakening: Lea and Jonathan's harmonies in The Word of Your Body. The last verse if Mirror Blue Night. And the countermelodies in Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind and Those You've Known

Wicked: Idina and Kristin's key change and harmony in the middle of Defuing Gravity. "It's up that I fell" in As Long As You're Mine. And the last verse of For Good

The whole of All the Wasted Time from Parade!

I also agree with pinoyidol, I think Giants in the Sky should be it's own track on the ITW soundtrack, it's such an amazing song.

The modulation in Goodbye in the Catch Me soundtrack

"SARAH GO DOWN TO ME" Ragtime is just wonderful as a whole!

The whole piano score in The Space Between from Ordinary Days!

tazber - agree with you about the end of Another Winter in a Summer town from GG.

Would also add my favorite: the ending of The Writing on the Wall from The Mystery of Edwin Drood sung by Betty Buckley.

Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but I am OBSESSED with Gwen Stewart's ad-libs/riffing during "Will I?" on the RENT OBCR.