Mistakes on cast recordings...

[Anastasia_Beaverhausen]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:01am

When I was listening to RAGTIME a while back, it was pointed out to me that during the opening number, while Emma is giving her speech, someone in the ensemble sings an extra "LA" the second time they do the LAs. I never picked up on it, but now I always hear it! Does anyone else know of cast recording mistakes??

[ticenewyorkcity]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:17am

If anyone has the rare cast recording of Annie Warbucks (Angel Records) the sequel to Annie little Kathryn Zaremba messes up a line near the end of the recording. It is during her speel to Sandy about the debacle at the wedding. I wonder why they never fixed that or the fact that Sandy is "barked" by Martin Charnin and not Cindy Lou...that is the albums BIGGEST mistake.

[wildcat]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:17am

I thought we'd done this one...Oh well...

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE (OBC) Angela Lansbury jumps in early during a bandbreak in "I've Got You To Lean On"

HIGH SPIRITS (OBC) Beatrice Lillie starts to sing a wrong lyric in "Something is Coming To Tea"

HOUSE OF FLOWERS (OBC) Although not exactly a mistake, composer Harold Arlen sings one of the final notes for the ailing Diahann Carroll in "I Never Has Seen Snow"

[Anastasia_Beaverhausen]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:27am

It's hard to find topics that haven't been discussed already!!! This one may have, but I didn't see it and I was curious! :)

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:34am

Toward the end of Mandy Patinkin's album "Experiment" when he pauses you can hear a chair squeek.

There is also a mistake made by Danielle Ferland, but my brain is garbled and I can't remember which it was. I believe she comes in early in either "Sunday in the Park" or "Into The Woods". If I get time, I'll give a listen and confirm which show. (My brain is so garbled, I can't remember whether it's the cd or the video version. Hoo boy!!)

Updated On: 1/13/05 at 10:34 AM

[magruder]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:35am

Broadway cast recordings are made so quickly and for usually such a tiny budget, that mistakes usually go uncorrected. Still, some recordings are a little more hapless than others.

There are orchestra flubs all throughout The Producers cast recording, but particularly in the "Overture," "If You Got It, Flaunt It," and the "Prisoners of Love" finale.

Anyone Can Whistle also has a back-up boy add one extra "doo" during "Me And My Town".

A Dogpatch wife makes a wrong entrance in "Put 'em Back" from Li'l Abner.

There is a big brass section error in "A Beat Behind" from The Goodbye Girl.

[dry2olives]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:43am

In Annie Reid Sheldon steps on one of Andra MacArdle's lines in "I Don't Need Anything but You".

In Take Me Along Walter Pidgeon loudy clears his throat during the into to the reprise of "Staying Young".

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:45am

Although I could be wrong, on the original off-Broadway ASSASSINS cast recording, there are certain parts were Terrence Mann (who played Czolgosz) definitely seems not to be singing, for it sounds like a completely different voice. Mann has a very distinctive quality to his voice, and he uses an accent for the role, but in certain places where Czolgosz has only one or two interjected sung or spoken lines, both the voice and the accent are different and don't sound like him at all, like someone was filling in for him. Anyone else notice this?

[twogaab2]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 10:55am

The most obvious one I can think of is on the OBC of Hello Dolly. In "Put on Your Sunday Cloths", on the line "Ermengard, stop snivilling, etc" Channing comes in early and is obviously cut off very quickly by the conductor, so all you get from her is a very quick, "Er..". Listen closely, your will hear it. Quite charming actually.

[Justice]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:10am

These aren't cast recordings, but two of the most noticeable (and funniest0 mistakes in the music industry are:

"I Saw Her Again Last Night" by the Mamas and the Papas.
During the climatic moment, one of the guys came in with "I Saw Her" too early.

"Baby, You Got What It Takes" by Dinah Washington and Brooke Benton.
Dinah and Brooke were supposed to record an album together with six duets.
During the second verse of "Baby, you got what it takes", Brooke starts singing, and Dinah says "You're back in my spot again, honey!" He stops, so she sings her verse. "I Like you're spot", he says. When her verse is finished she says "Now it's you!" This is obviously upsetting to her. When the recording was finished a huge fight ensued. They recorded a second song "A Rockin' Good Way", and in the end they began ad-libbing. Dinah would say things like "Just stay outta my spot" - all tongue in cheek.
He got angry, and even angrier that the producers kept it in the recording. They only recorded four songs together, as Dinah and Brooke never got along. The project was never completed, and the album only released four of the duets, while the rest of the numbers were solos.

[JamieMcG]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:37am

My favorite is during Lily's Eyes on The Secret Garden Recording. Mandy jumps in with an early "She" at the key change towards the end of the song. brilliant.

[Merrydothe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 12:25pm

On Idina Menzel's "Still I Can't Be Still" you can hear her clear her throat in the first few seconds of "Do You Think." Just proved to me that the clearing of the throat thing she does, was always around.

[Mel24601]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 12:42pm

In Into The Woods (the original london cast recording), they sing "Into the woods to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying" If you listen, someone screws up which verse it is and says "wish" instead of "thing"

In Aida, when Amneris sings I Know The Truth and says "This should have been my time", there is a glitch on the word "my". Its not the singer's fault, rather something that happened technically during the recording.

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 12:49pm

And of course Idina Menzel's infamous giggle in "RENT" right after she says "Oh, my God!" in the Finale.

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 12:56pm

This is probably not a mistake, but the Tour of TMM had a lyric change from teh CD that i was accustomed to. I am pretty sure that it was "A life that's gotta be more than than a one light town where the light is always red." was something to do with "makin' babies till i die." Is this how the b-way show is (i saw a video clip somewhere and sutton sang the same lyric change). If you know whats up, PM me.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:00pm

This is so minor it isn't even funny, but on Cooties on the Hairspray OCR, one time Laura Bell Bundy sings "cutie shot" instead of "cootie shot". Trust me, it's there.

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:02pm

I know they change some lyrics on tours from recordings/original shows. The most obvious example I can think of is Rent:

"Smile for Ted Koppel..." is changed to "Smile for CNN..." and "You can take the girl outta Hicksville" is changed to "You can take the girl outta Jersey."

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:10pm

I heard (dont quote me on this) that they change the rent lyric if the actresses hometown fits. maybe not, but interesting thought.

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:18pm

Also for the RENT tour, they change "She helped them find the Circle Line" to "She helped them find the Statue of Liberty."

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:26pm

Near the end of Endgame on the Chess OBC Phillip Casnoff hits a real sour note!

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:31pm

Edit: Double post

Updated On: 1/13/05 at 01:31 PM

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:32pm

Where? I didn't notice it...

[broadway_star_tomorrow]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:35pm

they don't change the rent lyrics to fit the actress's hometown. they change it for the tour because they assumed many tour audiences would not appreciate the humor of some of the more obscure references.

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:37pm

David Carroll sings "is there is no one in my life who will not..." Over the last note that Phillip Casnoff croaks -listen carefully and you'll hear it! Just horrible.

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:38pm

Yeah. Actually, they thought that many people might not think that Mark was talking about the New York town of Hicksville rather than a generic term for a place where hicks live.