PS Classics to record Passion 2013 NY cast

[tazber]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 7:26am

Awesome. PS Classics always does amazing work, especially with Sondheim.
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[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 7:34am

Thanks, taz! This is wonderful news. How exciting to look forward to hearing Judy Kuhn's very earthy Fosca again.

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 7:49am

A Time For Singing AND Passion announced on the same day!! This is too much for one morning.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 8:13am

That's great news, tazber. Thank you! (Now I just have to figure out how to buy it without my husband seeing the bill. For some reason, he HATES that show. Thank God he's the only one!)

[After Eight]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 8:17am

"(Now I just have to figure out how to buy it without my husband seeing the bill. For some reason, he HATES that show."

Gee, I wonder how THAT could be!

"Thank God he's the only one!)"

The only one in your household.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 8:19am

Actually, he's not even the only one I know. None of my real-life friends like it, not even the Sondheim fans. I guess it's a special taste.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 8:23am

You must be mistaken, Gav.

Sondheim fans are a conglomeration, and they all love it.

Maybe you're thinking of actual people.

[After Eight]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 8:25am

"I guess it's a special taste."

Yes, for connoisseurs only.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 8:27am

My husband actually knew Sondheim when he (my husband) was working at the Prince office, so he's very much a fan. But he just can't bear PASSION. Neither can several of my composer friends.

I don't get it. I can't help but admire the show's sheer refusal to pander to its audience. Plus the music is stunning!

But, no, neither of us are the type to insist that Sondheim can do no wrong. I think he's by far the best we have (music and lyrics), but nobody's perfect.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 9:24am

I find PASSION to be one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. Every time I listen to the cast recording (especially if I listen to the entire thing), it's really hard for me not to feel really emotional by the end. I hated it at first (I was probably in my late teens when I first watched the DVD) but the older I get, the more I'm in awe by the beauty of the score, and Donna Murphy and Marin Mazzie's performances are for the ages.
I cannot wait for this new recording! I hate the London album but I think this one is gonna be so great.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/15/13 at 11:15am

I was hoping PS Classics would record this! I can't wait to hear it!
Updated On: 3/15/13 at 11:15 AM

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 1:07am

I have such vivid memoirs of Judy Kuhn as Fosca in the Kennedy Centre PASSION 11 years ago, I am glad she is finally going to have a chance to record the role.

With this, PSC will have a version of every SS score in their catalog except INTO THE WOODS and SWEENEY TODD.

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 1:11am

PSC will have a version of every SS score in their catalog except INTO THE WOODS and SWEENEY TODD.


What about FORUM and WHISTLE?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 1:17am

And Saturday Night

[binau]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 3:19am

Record Bernadette and Mandy in SWEENEY TODD (yes I realise this sounds like a disaster), the Encores! WHISTLE and Geoffrey Rush's FORUM and then call it a day :P.

Updated On: 3/16/13 at 03:19 AM

[devonian.t]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 3:34am

My money's on the table already!

[CalebMeyer]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 1:36pm

This is wonderful news! I think this is one of the most well sung shows I've ever seen.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 2:59pm

I hope they use that sexy picture for the cover art too and not a production photo or something.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 3:55pm

Ehh. I knew they were gonna fu@k up the cover. The image they used to advertise the show was so beautiful. They should have used it for the cover too.

[CarmenDeBris]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 4:56pm

I actually prefer this. Though the poster art is beautiful too.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/1/13 at 6:59pm

Thrilled! I was disappointed by the London recording too, but I'm glad to get a recording of perhaps my fave Sondheim score.

2CD set? Does that mean they'll just record all the dialogue, too?

[PastorErnst]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 4:17pm

"Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker will record the role of Clara for an ailing Melissa Errico on the PS Classics two-disc Off-Broadway cast album of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Passion, Playbill.com has exclusively learned."

Playbill.com: Rebecca Luker Will Record Clara on PS Classics Passion Cast Album With Judy Kuhn and Ryan Silverman

[Joviedamian]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 8:51pm

^^^ is Melissa really that sick to record? There is an OPENING NIGHT pic of her at ORPHANS looking healthy and smiling big. Could money be the true factor in why she is not doing the recording?

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 8:54pm

I'm a fan of both Luker and Errico, but this makes me question if this is something more then lingering bronchitis from over a month ago. I know it can be rough if you're singing nightly, but the article says she's on vocal rest. When I had surgery on my vocal cords (even though I'm not a professional singer), I stayed home and away from any potential germs.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 8:55pm

If she's having vocal issues (nodes or anything like that) it's not really something that would force her to become a shut-in.