No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

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No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 3:11am

From the Centerstage Baltimore production of Night Music in 2008.
Whoever orchestrated this "chamber version" should never orchestrate a musical again. This sounds embarrassing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t65vSoxOdM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_NU1AhhX0w

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/116074-PHOTO-CALL-A-Little-Night-Music-at-Baltimore-Centerstage

Updated On: 4/17/10 at 03:11 AM

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:02am

What a great cast, though! Kate Baldwin as Charlotte = amazingness!

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 5:23pm

Barbara Walsh baffles me.

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 5:29pm

She sounds atrocious in these clips. And I was a big fan of her Joanne in Company.

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 5:34pm

She always sounds flat and vibrato-less to me in whatever role she blandly tackles.

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 5:56pm

When performing, Barbara Walsh often looks and sounds like she'd rather be anywhere else in the world than on stage.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 6:20pm

The cast is amazing, but how old is Julia Osborne? She looks about 40 and she's playing Anne? I'd kill to see Polly Bergen! I have no idea who keeps casting Walsh. I've never enjoyed her.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 6:28pm

I have an audio of this production, and Kate Baldwin singing Everyday A Little Death is amazing. One of my favorite versions ever.

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 6:35pm

I think Erin Davie's version is now my favorite. It is exquisite. I also think CZJ is such a remarkable actress and it just comes across on the recording. Listening to Barbara Walsh versus CZJ you realize just how talented CZJ is. Catherine's Desiree is just so delicious, full-bodied and full of life. To quote Elaine Stritch, "THATS COFFEE!!!!! THATS COFFEE!!!!!"

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Posted: 4/17/10 at 6:38pm

I think this cast sounds truly awful (sans Baldwin). Even Bergen sounds like she is completely lost.
The orchestrations are just atrocious.

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No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 6:46pm

Oh no, I COMPLETELY agree about the rest of the cast and the orchestrations. Kate Baldwin is the only good thing about it. And don't even get me started on Julia Osborne as Anne... TERRIBLE.

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No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 8:02pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZutBlUXUDI&feature=related

^ How the orchestrations SHOULD sound.

Am I allowed to post this on here?

-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."

#13

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 9:02pm

Not knowing the circumstances of this 'chamber' orchestration, I think whomever did this did a fine job. It's nothing great, but I don't really think it's as heinous as some of you are saying. And, for all we know, the orchestrator was only given the very limited and weird combination we hear here.

However I'd like to have a talk with the music director. I doubt the chord at the end of "Glamorous Life" was the best they could have gotten out of those singers.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

Updated On: 4/17/10 at 09:02 PM

#14

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:01pm

I saw this production and really liked it. It was my first exposer to Night Music. I had no clue till now that it was Kate Baldwin, she was great. The Petra was also INCREDIBLE.

#15

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:05pm

Petra was Sarah Uriarte Berry. She was about 20 years too old for the role.

Updated On: 4/17/10 at 10:05 PM

#16

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Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:07pm

I was sitting front row and she didn't look it.

And ljay, did you even see this production? You really have no right to judge this production over a few crappy audios. If you saw this production then say what you will but please don't judge it if you haven't.

#17

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:10pm

That's fine, but Petra is described as a 21-year-old in the libretto.

No I did not see the production, but I think I have the right to judge the orchestrations and vocal performances based on a full audio. I never judged the direction or production elements.

Updated On: 4/17/10 at 10:10 PM

#18

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:25pm

Petra may be described that way, but is she ever referred to that way? I think she could be any age - just sexy. In other words, Helen Mirren could play her - probably better than anyone else.

#19

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:28pm

I think Petra's interaction with Anne, Henrick, and the fact that she is apparently capable of fertility suggests she needs to be relatively young.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

#20

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Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:31pm

The lyrics of "Miller's Son" express her youthfulness to me. "In the meanwhile." "It's a very short day...." "But I'll not have been dead when I die!"
The song is a celebration of being young and living in the moment, in my opinion.
And obviously the authors intended on her being young.

Updated On: 4/17/10 at 10:31 PM

#21

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Posted: 4/17/10 at 10:39pm

But the actress doesn't have to BE young, she just has to READ young. Berry read very young in NYCO's Cinderella- I was actually shocked when I heard she was going to be a standby in N2N.

#22

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 11:06pm

I love Barbara Walsh but she does not sound good.

#23

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 11:08pm

For the record, Sarah sounds ATROCIOUS on the audio I have.

#24

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 11:15pm

Just listened to Sarah's Miller's Son. Not a fan of it. The orchestration of the number legit sounds like a MIDI file.

#25

No one should ever bash Jason Carr's ALNM orchestrations again...

Posted: 4/17/10 at 11:21pm

These recordings all sound awful, they are simply bad quality. I actually preferred this production to the current one I think.

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