https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/theater/tony-awards-season-musical-songs.html
Jesse Green: Great Broadway musicals must feature great songs, but not all the great songs are found in great musicals. That’s why I collect cast albums: There are obvious gems and hidden ones. To explore that range at the end of a generally fine and unusually eclectic Broadway season, I picked a song from every show that received a Tony Award nomination in any category. (The exception: “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” which will record its New Orleans-inflected Gilbert and Sullivan score after the awards are doled out on CBS this Sunday.)
Releases October 17 digitally and November 14 on CD! Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
I can't imagine wanting to listen to those really horrible orchestrations and new lyrics again. This is a revisal that should be forgotten as soon as possible.
George in DC said: "I can't imagine wanting to listen to those really horrible orchestrations and new lyrics again. This is a revisal that should be forgotten as soon as possible."
100%!
Stand-by Joined: 7/5/25
Awful. Add the changes were terrible choices.
I had a great time at the show and look forward to the cast recording.
Swing Joined: 6/2/17
I have the previous Broadway version as well as more classic versions of the score, so I'm happy to have this one. Looking forward to having David Hyde Pierce's version of Modern Major General. I think the rest of the revised score would benefit from another hearing. I enjoyed it in the theatre and would love to hear it again.
Available for strrrrrrrreaming tomorrow!
First listen of Nicholas Barasch (Fredric) and the company performing "Good Morning, My Brothers / Pour, Oh Pour!":
David Hyde Pierce (Stanley) and the company performing "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General":
The arrangements are terrible and the lyric changes even worse. It sounds lie something you would hear on Lawrence Welk show. Elevator music at its worst.
Now available digitally — listen away, folks.
Track listing:
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
I love New Orleans-style Jazz, and I love Pirates of Penzance. I also love steak and vanilla ice cream. Doesn't mean I want them on the same plate.
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/17
I enjoyed this production, but the recording seems kind of...inert? Even the up-tempo numbers don't have much energy
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