London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
#1London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 3:31pm
Carousel-Nunn Revival
Secret Garden
City of Angels
#2re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 3:38pmMe and My Girl
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#2re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 3:41pmChicago Revival with Ute Lemper & Ruthie Henshall.
#3re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 3:51pmI second the Chicago revival. It has way more dialogue, the complete versions of the songs, Roxie's Soliloquy and the act one finale. If they had included some of the trial scene it would have been more than perfect, but there's barely any space left on the disc so I can see why they may have chose not to.
#4re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 3:54pmI like Ruthie and Ute but most of the other performances on that disc leave me cold.
#5re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:01pm
Promises, Promises
What great ones do the less will prattle of
jondouglas
Stand-by Joined: 11/20/07
#6re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:02pmCAROUSEL revival from the 90's.....love it. It's so beautiful...especially "If I Loved You." It's so haunting and so tragic....love the fact that they kept some of the spoken dialogue in the recording.
#7re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:05pm
Bobby-
I thought the London's Mama Morton ( I dont know her name bec. when I transfered all my cast recording to my iTunes- I did not even bother to put their names ) was more brassier than Marcia Lewis.
I also enjoyed the Cell Block Tango more on the London Cast- the ensemble are more dramatic and over the top - which I really like !
J*
#8re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:09pmIn my opinion, the London Cast Recording of Sunset Boulevard is far superior to the US/LA recording.
#9re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:14pm
I happened to have the 3 cast recording of Sunset Boulevard-
London- Patti Lupone
LA/Broadway- Glenn Close
Canada-Diahann Carol
I actually like the US Version better bec. I like Glenn Close's over the top rendition,but definitely Patti has a better voice- I cant wait to see her in GYPSY (hopefully?)
I like Sunset Boulevard & Aspect of Love- probably the only two Lloyd Weber's Musicals - that I like !
J*
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Updated On: 11/27/07 at 04:14 PM
#10re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:14pmJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
#11re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:22pm
Have you heard the OBC? Mary McCarty's Mama can't be beat!
I too, also prefer the Patti London Sunset.
#12re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 5:36pmIRENE with JULIE ANTHONY and JON PERTWEE. Great additional songs "I CAN DREAM CAN'T I" and "UP THERE ON PARK AVENUE".
"Your eyes..... they shine like the pants on my blue serge suit"
#13re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 6:15pm
That London 'Irene' is on the top of my wish list for CD release.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
auzziek
Chorus Member Joined: 9/5/06
#14re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 6:22pmI prefer the London recording of Into the Woods if only for Our Little World (and yes I know it was added to the revival album). Also I enjoy the tempo of Giants in the Sky more.
#15re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 6:25pmI don't necessarily like it more than the Broadway version (nothing beats the brilliance of Bernadette Peters), but the London recording of Sunday In the Park with George is quite good.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#17re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 6:39pm
Passion!
The London Recording is just glorious!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#18re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 6:53pmWickedboy I have it on vinyl but it never gets played nowadays!! Too much hassle buying needles for my gramaphone!
"Your eyes..... they shine like the pants on my blue serge suit"
#19re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 6:58pmChicago, Les Miserables, Carousel
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#20re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 7:11pm
Chess (nobody beats Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson)
Les Miserables
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FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#21re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 7:11pm
I happen to love the OLC of "A little Night Music", the tempos are different, it's a bit lighter.
Plus I second City of Angels.
The OLC of "Stop the World..." has enormously more energy in it, probably because Tony Newley is even younger there.
#22re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 7:15pm
I would have to say:
Les Mis and Godspell. and with godspell, I mean London > OBCR
#23re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 7:37pm
Chicago
Into The Woods
Joseph..Dreamcoat (mainly becuz of Linzi)
Judi Dench's Cabaret recording (the BEST recording of the show!)
All That Jazz
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Updated On: 11/27/07 at 07:37 PM
#24re: London Recordings You Prefer to the Broadway Version
Posted: 11/27/07 at 7:52pmI found the recent Sunday... recording far superior to the OBC.
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