Little Moments on Cast Recordings That You Love- Page 8

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 4/26/07 at 9:55pm

I'm not sure if someone mentioned this before, but on the 96 London DD of Company

during the break of "You Could Drive A Person Crazy" one of the ladies just blurts out "You're an a*****hole!"

It completely cracks me up.

[sidjones09]

Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:42pm

Yeah, I'm feeling this topic right now:

1) Ragtime - 'He Wanted to Say' - Younger Brother "if there's such a thing AS JUSTICE, let me help you find YOUR JUSTICE. This I do FOR YOU AND FOR SARAH WHO LIES IN HER GRAVE!" I practically tear up every time.

2) Porgy and Bess - 'Bess You is My Woman Now' - the end when Porgy and Bess overlap with those hauntingly beautiful harmonies on "Oh my Porgy, my man Porgy" while Porgy sings "My Bess, my Bess" 4 of the best bars of music ever written.

3) Floyd Collins - 'Daybreak' - Jason Daniely and Chistopher Innvar on the words "time inside kind of puts me in a mind of when Mama was alive... WHEN MAMA WAS ALIVE..." and then they get real soft for "no one even says a word...we are happy dreamin'... we are and before we know it Daaaaybreeaaak is on" Chills.

4) Myths and Hyms - 'Hero and Leander' - Adam Guettel sings "could you be my Herooooo.....HEART OF FIRE." What he does with the word hero there is spine tingling. And then when he gets to the chorus on "Oh I need you....Hero and Leander how your passion is brave, even if I drown you INSIDE THIS WAAAAVEE!" Adam Guettel has got to be one of the greatest SINGING theatre composers of all time, and this song is shining proof of that. If you haven't heard it, you must. Please.

Updated On: 4/26/07 at 10:42 PM

[littlechavela2]

Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:48pm

From the Les Mis symphonic recording:
The cackling sailors at the beginning of Lovely Ladies
"just on more or my old man is gonna do me in" before Master of the house..catches my attention everytime

From lippa's wild party:
Poor Child: "In an hour or two...things will start to unglue"
and basically all of make me happy...love it!

SideShow:
You Should be Loved:
"When you're married to NOTHING! when you're misery's briiiiiide"That line pretty much made me fall in love with Norm Lewis

Once on the Island:
The Wall: "Oh gods..oh gods.. are you there? Oh gods...are you there" and the voices start overlapping. That is such a cool effect:)

Probably have more...can't think of them right now

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 4/26/07 at 10:58pm

"Pity comes too late, come around and face your fate!" from "Down Once More/Track Down This Muderer" on the POTO OCR. Although, come to think of it, I actually like how Gerard Butler says it on the movie soundtrack more.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 5:51pm

Bump

Posted: 5/5/07 at 9:56pm

at the end of "dont feed the plants" when audrey two is laughing over the music and the vocalists!

i also love the end of the "i love you song" when olive just belts out the "I love you, momma!" ugh, so good.

and finally, "are you trying to woo ME, jimmy harper?" from reefer. aw she just captures the innocence of mary jane there so cutesss!

[chino]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 11:22pm

Billy Porter's Beauty School Drop Out the part where he sings "High School" before it transforms on the crazy amazing gospel part.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 5/5/07 at 11:57pm

The "rises" on the revival recording of The Ladies Who Lunch. Chilling.

[MeganS]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 3:24pm

In Defying Gravity. The part where she'd usually be singing on stage "She's got nothing to do with it. It's me." I love the drum roll there.

[jett ford]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 4:08pm

The first that came to mind was:

Company (Original Cast) when Elaine Stritch,on "Ladies who Lunch", goes
"Does anyone....still wear...a hat"..., but laughs out the word hat, so it's like "...a ha-a-aat".

[mollyml05]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 6:29pm

Spring Awakening
-in the middle of "My Junk" ("I lie back just driftin'...") when the chorus sings echoes behind the lead
-the riffs at the end of "Touch Me"

Wicked
-in "The Wizard and I" when Idina moves from the bridge ("a celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with me") to "and I'll stand there with the wizard." Her breath control is amazing right there.

Lippa's The Wild Party
-The key change in "Life of the Party" is absolutely flawless.

Ragtime
-"Sarah, come down to me" on "New Music"

The Last Five Years
-The emotion behind the "please!" at the end of "If I Didn't Believe in You."

[misschung]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 6:31pm

In the Rent movie soundtrack, when Adam comes in during "Will I"

[Joe12345]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 7:08pm

Definitely during The Last Five Years, when Norbert Leo Butz does the alternate riffing at the end of Shiksa Goddess.

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 7:35pm

In the last five years- Norberts' "like you" at the end of shiksa goddess gives me chills.
In Company revival- someone is waiting is wonderful. Ear Fondue.
Spelling Bee- all of "the I love you song"
All of Bob Martins' dialogue
Everything in Harry on Broadway: Act 1, esp. There Once Was a Man.
Still Hurting- all of Sherie's high notes, and "Go and ride the sun away/run away/ like it's simple/like it's right." especially that part.
The end of "Happiness"- YAGMCB the violin part.
Eponine's "one day more on my own" and any eponine who riffs on "pretending" in On My Own gives me chills.
And Raul Esparza's Being Alive, and definitely that little section at the end where it sounds like party music.

Updated On: 5/6/07 at 07:35 PM

[The_Jackal2]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:45pm

Okay, so I thought of some more...

In TL5Y, the last line of "If I Didn't Believe in You" ("If I didn't believe in you, I'd never have loved you at all.") I just think it sounds so beautiful.
Also, in the Schmeul Song, "Did I mention today how lucky I am to be in love with you?"
In Church Rulez on the Altar Boyz cast recording, there's this part where they all overlap and it goes "Stand up/Kneel/Sit down" and then everyone sings a different part, I love that.
From Little Women, at the very end of "The Weekly Volcano Press" where they split into two parts and one group sings the "Sometimes when you dream..." part and the other group sings part of "Astonishing," it's gorgeous.
There's also a part in Little Women during "Our Finest Dreams" where Meg asks if she's going to die again in the tragedy. The way Sutton Foster says "yes" just cracks me up.
I love it in "It's Your Wedding Day (reprise)" from "The Wedding Singer" when everyone goes "I can guarantee that/Love will always find you!"
There are so many of these moments...I love it!

[The_Jackal2]

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:45pm

Okay, so I thought of some more...

In TL5Y, the last line of "If I Didn't Believe in You" ("If I didn't believe in you, I'd never have loved you at all.") I just think it sounds so beautiful.
Also, in the Schmeul Song, "Did I mention today how lucky I am to be in love with you?"
In Church Rulez on the Altar Boyz cast recording, there's this part where they all overlap and it goes "Stand up/Kneel/Sit down" and then everyone sings a different part, I love that.
From Little Women, at the very end of "The Weekly Volcano Press" where they split into two parts and one group sings the "Sometimes when you dream..." part and the other group sings part of "Astonishing," it's gorgeous.
There's also a part in Little Women during "Our Finest Dreams" where Meg asks if she's going to die again in the tragedy. The way Sutton Foster says "yes" just cracks me up.
I love it in "It's Your Wedding Day (reprise)" from "The Wedding Singer" when everyone goes "I can guarantee that/Love will always find you!"
There are so many of these moments...I love it!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 12:52pm

Bump!

[opiv]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:02pm

-In TL5Y, Norbert's "Did I just hear an alarm start ringing?" at the begining of Moving to Fast.
-"So - what's the most swankified place in town?" in Dancing Through Life from Wicked.
-The was Mano sings "I got ways" during Not While I'm Around
-Raul's "What can you do?" in 30/90 on ttB.
-The "These good and crazy people my married friends" line from any Company recording.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:10pm

"On the Grey Gardens OBCR, in Another Winter in a Summer Town, the harmony when they say "my season ended a long time ago." Absolutely stunning."

I totally agree. One of my favorite moments on that recording.

Oh, yes. And STAUNCH! S-T-A-U-N-C-H!

[Ronnik]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:43pm

Ok, I'll play....

In RAGTIME, in "He Wanted to Say" when they get to the lyric, "she was speaking loud and fast through a haze of noise and heat, and the smell of sweat and anger in the air".. I think that lyric is PERFECTION..

In AVENUE Q, that little laugh that John does after "she cooks like my mother and sucks like a hoover"

In Avenue Q, when Christmas Eve says "get a job.."

In Seussical, in the finale, I love two moments: One is "I have wings, and I can fly, you teach him Earth and I will teach him sky" and I also love the very end, when David Shiner says "and then guess what happened, well, what do YOU think??!"

In DESSA ROSE, the final moment: Daughter, my daughter, I named her "Ruth". Chills every time.


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[mortgageguy79]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:52pm

I know this has nothing to do with the music, it's all about pronunciation....

At the end of "one short day" in "wicked" when Glinda says "and fiancé" it sound like "and Beyonce", my bf, best friend and I get the biggest kick. When we saw it live and Kristen sang it, we were belly laughing for the longest! IT WAS GREAT! :)

I also LOVE the violins in the Revival recording of Cabaret during the music break of "what would you do" ---- STUNNING!

One more..."It's all over I'm here...there is nothing to fear...Chris what's haunting you...." Need I go on? Best moment for me of Miss Saigon

Updated On: 6/13/07 at 03:52 PM

[broadwayboy1017]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 5:35pm

the moment right before being alive in the new comany recording. i love that dialogue! i listen to it over andover, to me its so amusing. actually all of thos eittle dialogues snippets are so great in the cd....check it out!

[strelimyn]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 9:42pm

I have a lot ... so here goes

[title of show]
- Hunter throughout "An Original Musical" ... brilliant
- Heidi and Susan's intro to "Monkeys and Playbills" - it's just too funny
- "Hm ... I totally stopped listening"
- "Your note can suck my note, 'cause your note is my note's bitch"
- The ending of "Secondary Characters"

Aida
- The first time Sherie sings the lyrics "Most free-flowing, most eye-popping, most arresting, most heart-stopping" ... I don't know, something about the way she sings it gets me every time
- Heather's power in the ending of "Dance of the Robe" and throughout "Easy As Life"

Avenue Q .... all of it

Bat Boy
- "Do you think Edgar would marry me?"
"............ No, honey, a three-bedroom house"

Brooklyn
- The ending of "Once Upon a Time" ... Eden owns that ending
- All of Superlover - too funny

Footloose
- The high notes at the end of "Let's Hear it for the Boy"
- "Up where the mountains meet the heavens above"

Once Upon a Mattress
Original Broadway Cast
- "And I hear the caaAAAALL" Carol Burnett is a goddess with that inflection
- In "Yesterday I Loved You" when the tempo changes

Revival Cast
- The changes in "In a Little While" ... Jane Krakowski is amazing
- Normandy when Lawrence Clayton and David Hibbard harmonize when they sing "... and the world stands hushed and waiting ..." and so on
- The chant for "Quiet" turned into a song

Scarlet Pimpernel
- The beginning orchestrations of "Falcon in the Dive"

See What I Wanna See
- "Tonight I kiss my lover for the last time" I find that melody hauntingly catchy
- All of "No More" ... I love the anger Idina portrays
- Aaron Lohr in "You'll Go Away With Me" and his harmonies with Idina in the reprise

Spring Awakening
- Lauren Pritchard at the end of the "Mama Who Bore Me" reprise
- Skylar Astin's spiel at the end of "Touch Me"
- All of Blue Wind
- Whispering!

Sweet Charity
- All of "Charity's Soliloquoy"

The Last Five Years
- Climbing Uphill and Sherie's part in Goodbye Until Tomorrow
- "I want you and you and nothing but you ..."

The Light in the Piazza
- Clara's tirade in "Octet" - I could listen to it over and over again ... and I have
- "Passeggiata" especially when Matthew Morrison sings "... a place that I've knoooown"
- Matthew's cry "Claraaaaaa" at the beginning of "Aiutami" ... I am easily gratified, I guess

The Sound of Music
- The harmonies in the Praeludium (Dixit dominus)

Wicked ... all of it



Welll this was just fun ... I hope I don't seem nerdy with no life ... hmmmm

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 10:37pm

I have a million, but I just thought about "Evil Dead". I heard a brief snippet on iTunes in "Ode to an Accidental Stabbing." I love it when the girl goes "No one can hurt you here," and then hits a pseudo-operatic high A. Who is it? And then there's another zombie (I think it's Linda) saying "NO ONE BUT MEEEEEEEEEEE!" It's so surprising and funny. Zombies singing about killing people. It's so weird. But I like the high A the best (as well as the cloth tearing sound effect).

Favorite moments in other recordings:

Legally Blonde:
Overture - those orchestrations, WOW!
Bend and Snap - the beginning with the electronic cheerleader-style drums and handclaps

On The Record:
Whistle While You Work - the jazzy version
The Silly Symphony Act I Finale - "Hakuna Ma-Bibbidi-bobbidi-diddle-dee-dee-zip-a-dee-do-dah-dociousalliexpiisticfragicalirupus!" THE SHEET MUSIC'S ALL SCREWED UP!

Wicked:
The OVERTURE
The ORCHESTRATIONS
The CHORAL VOCALS
And basically everything else

The Wedding Singer:
The authenticness of the orchestrations and style - QUINTESSENTIALLY 1985

I have millions more.

[yellibean2]

Posted: 6/16/07 at 12:08am

"F*** you Miss Johnson, word."
-[title of show]