PARADISE SQUARE will release an original Broadway cast album- Page 2

[jakeweldon]

Posted: 6/24/22 at 10:13am

It's on YouTube - why bother buying an album for one FREE song 

 

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[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 1:27am

Sorry to bump this thread many months later, but composer Jason Howland took to his Instagram account yesterday to leak several songs from the unreleased OBCR of Paradise Square, if anyone is interested. Lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare

• "Paradise Square: Part 1": https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmzKzvPqs3a/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• "Paradise Square: Part 2": https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmzTgi-Iq5-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• "I'm Coming": https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmzsG3joasc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• "I'd Be a Soldier": https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmzDXKYqRU3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• "Angelina Baker (Always on My Mind )": https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmzfngcIjyG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• "Heaven Save Our Home": https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cmw8rvyItXr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• "Now or Never": https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cmx2li7owCf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
• "Someone to Love": https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cmzw5EyKCDy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 2:22am

Leak all of the songs.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 2:25am

They should have just released a CD single with Let It Burn and a few remixes of it. That’s all that’s necessary. 
 

It’s not a well written song but she sings the hell out of it and elevates it. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 7:02am

“Let It Burn” is the perfect example of how a great performer can make you not even realize how bad a song is until you actually stop and think about it. 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 10:28am

Didn't they release a bunch of studio recorded songs as promo? I haven't listened to them all so not sure if they just weren't full tracks but it felt as if they released half the score just in promo vids

[HogansHero]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 10:54am

chrishuyen said: "Didn't they release a bunch of studio recorded songs as promo? I haven't listened to them all so not sure if they just weren't full tracks but it felt as if they released half the score just in promo vids"

Isn't that what this is? Songs from the promo? That's what it says. If so that would not be a "leak." If not, then Mr. Howland is in for a world of hurt, and I don't think he is that dumb.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 2:22pm

I don’t think these are from the promo recording sessions, as those were before the Chicago tryout. This sounds more like the finished product, as I hear many changes were made between Chicago and Broadway (and even during Broadway previews).

For what it’s worth, the score is nothing more than okay. It tries so hard to be a Ragtime or Les Miz for the 21st century, but comes off as another Amazing Grace for the most part. This is no fault of the cast, which sounds incredible on recording. 

Several songs border on generic, though the new first-act closer “Heaven Save Our Home” is an upgrade over its repetitive predecessor. Howland tries for some Celtic influences in a few numbers, but I felt more authenticity in Come From Away. 

Meh. 

 

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 2:34pm

Compared to "Welcome Home," which was my favorite of the tracks originally released, I find "Heaven Save Our Home" difficult to listen to. It's a long, boring nothing of a song, and I wish they'd found a way to keep the original. 

 

Updated On: 12/31/22 at 02:34 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 6:03pm

I still hope to see the album get released eventually. Didn’t Howland pay for it himself?

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 12/31/22 at 10:16pm

• “Breathe Easy”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm2SEChIUGb/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=
• “Since the Day That I Met You”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm2gM80oZuD/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 1/1/23 at 8:34am

Confirmed (from many Instagram accounts of those in the show) that these are the actual OBCR tracks that he has leaked. Most likely because it would be a long wait with all the legal mess going on behind the scenes. 

[trpguyy]

Posted: 1/1/23 at 11:02am

GiantsInTheSky2 said: "Confirmed (from many Instagram accounts of those in the show) that these are the actual OBCR tracks that he has leaked. Most likely because it would be a long wait with all the legal mess going on behind the scenes."

... synced up with what appears to be the closed-circuit FOH video from a performance. Really not a great look

[HogansHero]

Posted: 1/1/23 at 11:06am

if this is true, then that world of hurt I mentioned above awaits.

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 1/1/23 at 11:46am

I’m doubtful that the world of hurt is going to him, leak or not. There’s bigger fish to fry with PS. 

[DCS]

Posted: 1/1/23 at 12:06pm

Jason says in one of the postings "Can’t release the cast album for Paradise Square, but CAN share promo videos for it loosely synced to footage people filmed from their phones"

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 1/1/23 at 5:04pm

Jordan Catalano said: "“Let It Burn” is the perfect example of how a great performer can make you not even realize how bad a song is until you actually stop and think about it."

It was the opposite for me. I knew as I listened to it that a terrible song that I was, and am, so shocked that it got the reaction it did. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 1/1/23 at 5:20pm

This feels like the kind of show Encores! would stage around 30-35 years from now. As it stands, the book is as jam-packed as the titular saloon during happy hour. Some trimming may just lead this show in the right direction. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 1/3/23 at 8:09am

• “Camptown Races”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm8Cs_aIrNG/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=
• “Bright Lookout / Tomorrow’s Never Guaranteed”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm8JpVgKxCY/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 1/3/23 at 10:44pm

• “I Will Not Die in Springtime”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm9LOPqotF3/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=
• “Turn My Life Around”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cm-mNiXKFMm/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=

[chewy5000]

Posted: 1/4/23 at 12:49am

This whole thing reminds me of when David Yazbek published the West End recording of Women On The Verge on his website for 24 hours.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/4/23 at 2:25am

If only someone would leak Lestat.

[BETTY22]

Posted: 1/5/23 at 12:03pm

you is paying fort this?

a cast album costs $250,000

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/5/23 at 12:14pm

From what I understand, Howland payed for the studio time himself and I have to assume Drabinsky hasn’t compensated the cast.

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 1/5/23 at 12:50pm

CATSNYrevival said: "From what I understand, Howland payed for the studio time himself and I have to assumeDrabinsky hasn’t compensated the cast.”

Even those aside, I don’t think anyone (crew, etc) has been paid what they are owed yet. Time will tell…