Posted: 6/27/19 at 10:55am
It's out in certain timezones. I've only heard the first three tracks and already I'm sure this will go down in history. I wonder if Damon should have won the Tony Award for best Actor.
Posted: 6/27/19 at 10:57am
No he shouldn't have.
I thought the singing in the theatre was for the most part completely mediocre (except for Damon and Ali Stroker) so I'm curious to hear what this recording sounds like.
Posted: 6/27/19 at 11:35am
Posted: 6/27/19 at 12:12pm
qolbinau said: "It's out in certain timezones. I've only heard the first three tracks and already I'm sure this will go down in history. I wonder if Damon should have won the Tony Award for best Actor."
You mean internationally, right? Not seeing it anywhere in EST. Dying to hear it.
Updated On: 6/27/19 at 12:12 PM
Posted: 6/27/19 at 12:45pm
<<I wonder if Damon should have won the Tony Award for best Actor. >>
Yes, Damon *should* have won the Tony! His falsetto / singing voice was 100x stronger than Santino Fontana’s!!
Just saying!!!!!!!!
Posted: 6/27/19 at 1:19pm
NOTHING will ever get me to replace my old, scratchy original of Oklahoma with Alfred Drake. I don't care how politically, racially, handicapped or sexually correct the new produiction is, it won't sound better to me!
Posted: 6/27/19 at 1:54pm
ShowBro said: "<>
Yes, Damon *should* have won the Tony! His falsetto / singing voice was 100x stronger than Santino Fontana’s!!
Just saying!!!!!!!! "
A stronger falsetto doesn’t dictate a Tony win. Damon gives a charming and intense performance, but Santino delivers a star turn from start to finish, hardly ever leaving the stage, with an exhausting number of transformations. Also, his songs are not a walk in the park to sing. I was blown alway by Santino and his endless energy.
Posted: 6/27/19 at 1:54pm
EdEval said: "NOTHING will ever get me to replace my old, scratchy original of Oklahoma with Alfred Drake. I don't care how politically, racially, handicapped or sexually correct the new produiction is, it won't sound better to me!"
So don't listen to the new one
Posted: 6/27/19 at 2:14pm
It's not out here yet, but I can't wait! I've listened to "People Will Say We're in Love" from the OklahomaVevo YT channel an embarrassing number of times.
And I don't get why people act like a new recording takes the place of an old one somehow? If you don't like the revival cast album - or even if you do - the other recordings still exist.
Posted: 6/27/19 at 2:48pm
ljay889 said: "ShowBro said: "<>
Yes, Damon *should* have won the Tony! His falsetto / singing voice was 100x stronger than Santino Fontana’s!!
Just saying!!!!!!!! "
A stronger falsetto doesn’t dictate a Tony win. Damon gives a charming and intenseperformance, but Santino delivers a star turn fromstart tofinish, hardly ever leaving the stage, with an exhausting number of transformations. Also, his songs are not a walk in the park to sing. I was blown alway by Santino and his endless energy."
If the role calls for a man to be *realistically* singing in a women’s register, I do think that their ability to do so does dictate to some degree how well they can play the part.
When my husband and I went to go see Tootsie in previews, Santino’s voice kept cracking and breaking at various parts when he was singing as Dorothy. It was terribly uncomfortable to witness as an audience member, and after about the third time it occurred, I looked around to see if anyone else in the audience was giving side eye like myself - and they definitely were. Also, at the end of the day, they do not give the Tony for the actor who spends the most time on stage or what you perceive as to be working the hardest (drags transformations). They give it for the overall performance and IMO Damon’s was more nuanced and much better sung!
Posted: 6/27/19 at 2:51pm
It sounds excellent to me. Damon sounds excellent, but Santino deserved the Tony for all he is doing up on that stage 8 times a week.
Updated On: 6/27/19 at 02:51 PM
Posted: 6/27/19 at 3:09pm
They also have the full or close to the full dream ballet included, which is good - I assume they have just lifted and shifted the audio from what they play in the theatre?
Posted: 6/27/19 at 3:21pm
EdEval said: "NOTHING will ever get me to replace my old, scratchy original of Oklahoma with Alfred Drake. I don't care how politically, racially, handicapped or sexually correct the new produiction is, it won't sound better to me!"
Did anyone say you had to?
Posted: 6/27/19 at 5:16pm
Posted: 6/28/19 at 11:35am
As anyone heard the whole recording yet? It's not on my Spotify yet.
Posted: 6/28/19 at 11:42am
fashionguru_23 said: "As anyone heard the whole recording yet? It's not on my Spotify yet."
https://open.spotify.com/album/3JctweW8WZzHbU8gw0J8NP?si=s14anLRHSfC6M5MDlMd9RQ
Posted: 6/28/19 at 12:00pm
Wow - loved the recording. Brought me right back to the production. I do wish that they had recorded the reprise of the title song, but I don't know how the anger would've translated on a recording.
I know she's really divided people, but one of the highlights is Rebecca Naomi Jones singing "Many a New Day" - powerful and fresh.
Posted: 6/28/19 at 12:03pm
Fan of the high belting on the recording. Glad it is substituted instead of the cast singing in head voice.
Updated On: 6/28/19 at 12:03 PM
Posted: 6/28/19 at 2:00pm
IdinaBellFoster said: "I know she's really divided people, but one of the highlights is Rebecca Naomi Jones singing "Many a New Day" - powerful and fresh."
I still scratch my head on this one. She sounds marvelous on the recording and I love what she did on stage. Her subtlety really served the production as a whole.
Updated On: 6/28/19 at 02:00 PM
Posted: 6/28/19 at 3:48pm
RNJ is a star, I have loved her since American Idiot. She looks and sounds incredible in this production. People are divided on her? How strange. Perhaps they want their old Oklahoma! back.
Posted: 6/28/19 at 3:54pm
Posted: 6/28/19 at 4:32pm
qolbinau said: "They also have the full or close to the full dream ballet included, which is good - I assume they have just lifted and shifted the audio from what they play in the theatre?
Yes, and I'm so happy they did. Question for those who've seen it on Broadway: When I saw the show at St. Ann's, the end of the Dream Ballet ended with the electric guitar playing the Surrey theme 8va with heavy distortion, but the cast album has moved it to violin. Do they still end it with electric guitar on Broadway or has it been shifted to strings as the cast album presents? That was my favorite orchestral moment of the entire season, and it sent shivers up my arms like nothing else.
Posted: 6/28/19 at 4:55pm
EdEval said: "NOTHING will ever get me to replace my old, scratchy original of Oklahoma with Alfred Drake. I don't care how politically, racially, handicapped or sexually correct the new produiction is, it won't sound better to me!"
Oh, give it a try! What have you got to lose except $9.99 at iTunes?
OKLAHOMA! is one of the best musicals ever written and the OBCR and the 1980s revival are must-have recordings. But I'm listening to the new revival recording and it merely takes the aural locale from "generalized Broadway" to country/western (while remaining true to Rodgers' score). EXACTLY what Oscar Hammerstein was trying to do with his lyrics and libretto.
Posted: 6/28/19 at 6:20pm
I've listened to the recording and am disappointed. It sounds much smoother, much "prettier" than the raw, edgy, mostly unmiked sound I experienced in the theater. Almost airbrushed.
