London Sunday in the Park With George CD to be Released in May

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:29pm

From Playbill.com:

"Record producer Tommy Krasker, of PS Classics, is in a London recording studio March 6-7 with the new London cast of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park With George.

What they're putting together is expected to be the most complete recording yet of the 1984 score of the Pulitzer Prize winning musical about art, artists and artistic legacies. The new cast album is expected to be released in the U.S. in late May.

PS Classics co-founder Krasker told Playbill.com, via e-mail from London, that the plan is for "a very full recording."

Krasker said, 'I timed all the musical passages, as well as several key moments of underscored dialogue that I very much wanted to include, and it clocked in at about 87 minutes. I thought about trimming it down to 79 minutes to fit on one CD, but then I thought, why? The production is extraordinary, and the performances are rich and powerful and nuanced. I thought, let's record everything we want to. If we end up making trims in post-production, it might come down to one CD, but I'm certainly not opposed to going to two CDs either.'

Krasker wanted to set the record clear about reports that cuts were made in Act Two in the current West End-bound production. The news is misleading, he said.

'Some of the dialogue in the 'Chromolume' scene was inverted, with the authors' full permission, but there wasn't one musical cut made in this production," Krasker said.

PS Classics is aiming for a late May release in the United States, and will probably make it available shortly before then in the UK, in order to coincide with the show's mid-May transfer to the West End."


http://www.playbill.com/news/article/98308.html

Updated On: 3/6/06 at 05:29 PM

[apdarcey]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:36pm

this production makes me sad because i'll be in london right after it closes at the chocolate factory, and right before it opens in the west end. damn timing.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 6:11pm

Good. I was debating whether or not to buy the Original one, but I'll wait for this one. I enjoy "new" sounding recordings.

[BroadwayChica]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 6:17pm

This news has made me giddy!

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 7:46pm

Oh RentBoy86 get the original as well! It is being remastered and the performances of Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin are extraordinary, the kind of musical theatre you will never see or hear again.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 7:57pm

amazing

[keatonbynumbers]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:26pm

I'm really looking forward to this--and hope that it does end up being two discs. The more, the better.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:34pm

This is my favorite Sondheim score and thank goodness it's finally getting a second recording.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 5:14am

Interesting article on the recording of the CD, including how best to record someone who has never performed the role on stage, and how differences between UK and US recording contracts make things slightly easier...
http://www.theatre.com/story/id/3001597

[AuditioningWaitress]

Posted: 3/24/06 at 4:47pm

Great article Eastwickian...I can't wait to hear this! It going to be nice having another version of this score...