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FANtomFollies said: "This recording feels exactly like what was done to the original London production a couple years ago - random changes made to offer a quick thrill but with no regard for posterity. It's such a mixed bag that is no longer a representation of the original production. I wish they had done this with the intention of making the original recording sound as good as possible, as opposed to trying to make it as different as possible."

I have to assume that was the intent of the last remaster in the 2000s, but at this point I’m skeptical they actually used the original tapes to remaster it back then. This remix is almost like they wanted a 40th anniversary cast album with all the recent changes, but they used the original cast recording to do it. Webber did something similar with the Australian Love Never Dies album where the cast was brought into a studio to re-record Beauty Underneath and a few other bits in order to release a sort of revisionist history version of what was actually performed on stage.

“Webber did something similar with the Australian Love Never Dies album where the cast was brought into a studio to re-record Beauty Underneath and a few other bits in order to release a sort of revisionist history version of what was actually performed on stage.”

Not the case. There was (and still is) no Australian Cast Album sincethat production closed in 2012. The recording you’re referring to was released in 2018 with updates to reflect the (then) current version of the show that was touring the US (even including that production’s Gustave in ‘TBU’).

It’s not even labeled as an Australian Cast album, because we know it’s not that. It’s a Studio Cast Recording and identified as such.