PETITION: The 2022 Broadway Revival Cast of COMPANY Should Record & Release Its Own Cast Album!

[CompanyCastAlbumPetition]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 10:45am

Hi all! Big fan of this production of Company and am heartbroken it is closing without a cast album. I'm not sure how else to convey to Chris Harper how badly us fans want this album to be produced other than aggregating signatures in a petition. Figured it's worth a shot.

Please sign below and circulate to all your Company-loving friends and family. Hopefully this can make a difference before the show closes next month!

https://chng.it/cLbsgPdwRF

[CompanyCastAlbumPetition]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 10:47am

(Also, happy to change/add the language I drafted and change/add decision makers if anyone has recommendations or comments!))

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 10:48am

Get your head out of the clouds. This petition –– and any petition related to Broadway financial decisions –– is a waste of your and everyone else's time. A show is a business entity, and as much as we all would LIKE an album, this business entity owes you nothing.

If you want to make a difference, offer an investment of $1million of your own money.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 10:53am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Get your head out of the clouds. This petition –– and any petition related to Broadway financial decisions –– is a waste of your and everyone else's time.A show is a business entity, and as much as we all would LIKE an album, this business entity owes you nothing.

If you want to make a difference, offer an investment of $1million of your own money."

Ermengarde, stop sniveling.

[OhHiii]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 10:57am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Get your head out of the clouds. This petition –– and any petition related to Broadway financial decisions –– is a waste of your and everyone else's time.A show is a business entity, and as much as we all would LIKE an album, this business entity owes you nothing.

If you want to make a difference, offer an investment of $1million of your own money."

You must be fun at dinner parties.

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:22am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Get your head out of the clouds. This petition –– and any petition related to Broadway financial decisions –– is a waste of your and everyone else's time.A show is a business entity, and as much as we all would LIKE an album, this business entity owes you nothing.

If you want to make a difference, offer an investment of $1million of your own money."

 
Why such nastiness?  Jeez.

 

 

Updated On: 6/22/22 at 11:22 AM

[pollster2]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:27am

Chris Harper is on Twitter at @chrisharper71.

I appreciate the economics of Broadway and such but I might send him a tweet about my desire for a cast recording.

It would be a such a shame if this glorious production was lost to time.

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:30am

He made a rude point

But a real point. 

They've assessed things and this is unfortunately the reality of the situation.

They already recorded Patti singing the score with these orchestrations. This production has already been immortalized. It's just the actors who are different.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:39am

Ermengarde made a valid point; cast recording cost $$$.   And money they aren't likely to make back on the sale of said recording. Sure, they MIGHT....but since I'm sure this production is closing as a financial flop, they'd be foolish to throw away more money.  

Would I LOVE a recording?  Yes, I would buy it in an instance.  But a petition isn't going to do a darned thing.

[justoldbill]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:40am

If you're interested in all this gender-flipping nonsense (which I'm not), there's already the London recording (which I'm not a fan of).  Wake up; they got it right in 1970.  It's the best recording of the score there ever was or ever will be.  Only 300 performances of the current production speaks for itself.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:43am

Petitions have zero effect.  Unless it’s a Kickstarter or GoFundMe where actual donated funds happen, these petitions don’t have any effect.  The COMPANY revival IS fully aware that a Broadway Cast Recording is a high request (even my 2 friends in the show and the entire cast, including LuPone, wants one!).  It’s the producer’s choice to pay for one to be recorded.  Petitions without funds are hilarious.  This isn’t a student council voting situation. 

[OhHiii]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:45am

justoldbill said: "If you're interested in all this gender-flipping nonsense (which I'm not), there's already the London recording (which I'm not a fan of). Wake up; they got it right in 1970. It's the best recording of the score there ever was or ever will be. Only 300 performances of the current production speaks for itself."

Tell me you haven't seen the show without telling me you haven't seen the show.

300 performances, over the course of 3 years, halted and then under the constant strain of an ongoing pandemic, with a slew of cancelled performances/revenue due to said pandemic. Yeah you're really exposing just how terrible this 5-time Tony Award winning production is. Wowwwww. Bravo.

 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:49am

FWIW, the PBC documentary is excellent and while it obviously doesn't include the whole show, it includes A LOT of footage from the show –– enough, I hope, to satisfy people while also not losing more money on a cast album that will never recoup (because cast albums are usually money-losers unless the show is a massive financial hit).

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:52am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "FWIW, the PBC documentary is excellent and while it obviously doesn't include the whole show, it includes A LOT of footage from the show –– enough, I hope, to satisfy people while also not losing more money on a cast album that will never recoup (because cast albums are usuallymoney-losers unless the show is a massive financial hit)."

 

Or....you could have apologized for your unnecessary rudeness.

 

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:57am

I think these "London to Broadway" shows that keep at least one actor from England that have already been recorded have to be RUNAWAY hits to get another cast recording. Or they have to not have been recorded already

Look at Sister Act

We probably got the Trevor Nunn recording cause Catherine Zeta Jones/they didn't have one in the UK.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:59am

No apologies necessary :) necessary points were made.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 11:59am

OhHiii said: "justoldbill said: "If you're interested in all this gender-flipping nonsense (which I'm not), there's already the London recording (which I'm not a fan of). Wake up; they got it right in 1970. It's the best recording of the score there ever was or ever will be. Only 300 performances of the current production speaks for itself."

Tell me you haven't seen the show without telling me you haven't seen the show.

300 performances, over the course of 3 years, halted and then under the constant strain of an ongoing pandemic, with a slew of cancelled performances/revenue due to said pandemic. Yeah you're really exposing just how terrible this 5-time Tony Award winning production is. Wowwwww. Bravo.

"

And the longest running Company revival.

[Highland Guy]

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

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "No apologies necessary :) necessary points were made."

 

And that one sentence says all I need to know about you.  

 

[OhHiii]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 12:05pm

Highland Guy said: "ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "No apologies necessary :) necessary points were made."
And that one sentence says all I need to know about you."

It's their modus operandi for how they treat a lot of posters on this board. Not worth it.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 12:15pm

Hey OP,

I love your enthusiasm for this production, it was wonderful. But, the London recording of this exact show already exists. I don't care for it myself and would love to hear the same voices I heard on stage in New York, but I think it would have been recorded a long time ago if it was going to happen. 

[B212323]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 12:19pm

A go fund me might but it sounds like there are rights issues involved...

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 12:20pm

I'll watch my mouth. Thanks.

 

rattleNwoolypenguin said: "We probably got the Trevor Nunn recording cause Catherine Zeta Jones/they didn't have one in the UK."

Yes, CZJ and Lansbury are much bigger names than anyone in COMPANY, from a sales standpoint, and it was also the first Bway revival of ALNM.

12 years ago, physical media was much bigger than it is now, and streaming was not really a thing –– if people wanted to listen, they had to buy a CD or buy the album for $11.99 on iTunes. Much has changed, and I don't think most people in the Cast Album biz would say that streaming has helped them.

Tommy Krasker was a big factor in getting those Sondheim albums recorded, too. Passion at Classic Stage, Road Show, revivals of Pacific Overtures and Sunday (London). The landscape has changed.

[BobNC]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 1:13pm

Such bitchiness abounds here; it’s a horrible character defect of some members of my tribe.  

Updated On: 6/22/22 at 01:13 PM

[joshdog2014]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 1:45pm

I know no producer (other than Ken Davenport) would do this, but I’d love to see a Kickstarter for this. Let them say “This is how much we need to feel ok about doing this. If you’re serious about it preorder through the campaign or give more support” and see what happens. It’s probably unlikely that enough would be contributed but it’d be interesting to see

Updated On: 6/22/22 at 01:45 PM

[pollster2]

Posted: 6/22/22 at 2:02pm

joshdog2014 said: "I know no producer (other than Ken Davenport) would do this, but I’d love to see a Kickstarter for this. Let them say “This is how much we need to feel ok about doing this. If you’re serious about it preorder through the campaign or give more support” and see what happens. It’s probably unlikely enough would be contributed but it’d be interesting to see"

I'd support this in a second. While I imagine many people here would kick in a few dollars, I would definitely go a bit further and be willing to drop in a few hundred.