RAGTIME 2025 New Broadway Cast Recording Thread- Page 3

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 1/10/26 at 1:13am

I love this album, i love this score, and i love this production. Congrats to everyone, but most congrats go to James Moore, legendary musical director, for his work on this. What an absolute triumph all around.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 1/10/26 at 7:14am

Cristopher was a standby in Sweeney. He never replaced.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/10/26 at 8:14am

iluvtheatertrash said: "Cristopher was a standby in Sweeney. He never replaced."

He did play Sweeney after Josh Groban for about a month between cast changes and went on multiple times otherwise. So, no, he didn’t replace, but there was ample opportunity to catch his Sweeney performance.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 1/10/26 at 10:06am

Listening to this cast recording this weekend because this country is such a sh!t show these days.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 1/10/26 at 10:42am

It sounds glorious! "Goodbye, My Love" and "Journey On" are both such great songs. God, I just love this show.

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 1/11/26 at 1:42pm

The performances are great across the board (Joshua Henry is one of the best things to happen to musical theatre in a long time), but I'm really disappointed in how the orchestra sounds. It sounds so much thinner and reedier compared to the original cast album, even though I'm pretty sure it's the same instrumentation.

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 1/11/26 at 2:21pm

I believe the original recording had an additional 10 string musicians or so, although someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[binau]

Posted: 1/12/26 at 6:06pm

I find Nichelle’s phrasing in Daddy’s Son of “Only darkness and pain. The anger and pain. The blood and the pain. I buried my heart in the ground” particularly moving and dramatic. And the ending is quite vulnerable. I am a fan. 

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 1/12/26 at 6:49pm

binau said: "I find Nichelle’s phrasing in Daddy’s Son of “Only darkness and pain. The anger and pain. The blood and the pain. I buried my heart in the ground” particularly moving and dramatic. And the ending is quite vulnerable. I am a fan."

I'm a fan as well, my only complaint is that passage is almost impossible to decipher the words she is singing when you are in the theater, unless you know it already. I wish they could have done a little more work on diction in that part. 

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 1/12/26 at 10:30pm

FANtomFollies said: "binau said: "I find Nichelle’s phrasing in Daddy’s Son of “Only darkness and pain. The anger and pain. The blood and the pain. I buried my heart in the ground” particularly moving and dramatic. And the ending is quite vulnerable. I am a fan."

I'm a fan as well, my only complaint is that passage is almost impossible to decipher the words she is singing when you are in the theater, unless you know it already. I wish they could have done a little more work on diction in that part."

Agree, I had the exact same thought in the theater. It actually made me think they really should lower the key a bit.  But it's much more clear on the recording.   

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 1/13/26 at 5:59am

I went to a fairly early preview and thought she sounded fantastic and had no problem understanding the lyrics.

[CJRochester]

Posted: 2/6/26 at 7:42pm

Recording of "He Wanted To Say" in the studio. This gave me chills. 

https://youtu.be/cmVb9CYWVRo?si=aBn0YB9cQsKb3kN_

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 2/6/26 at 11:08pm

CJRochester said: "Recording of "He Wanted To Say" in the studio. This gaveme chills.

https://youtu.be/cmVb9CYWVRo?si=aBn0YB9cQsKb3kN_"

The voices are so good, I wish I could hear this cast sing the original longer version of this song that's on the very first pre-Broadway studio album. I always loved the "We are comrades in the struggle that goes on across the earth..." section for Emma Goldman, I appreciated the larger political context for the song and for Coalhouse and Mother's Younger Brother. In the final song it's more just implied by Goldman's presence, the original draft brings Goldman up to the full bombast of the show at its biggest. I thought the show was kind of putting its money where its mouth is with those original lyrics. 

On the subject, I also always miss the slightly longer "Coalhouse's Soliloquy" ("Sarah, my life has changed/ Sarah the world has changed," the kind of broken funhouse mirror arrangement of that beautiful moment). Other than that (and even understandings these) the cuts and changes by Broadway were great. Just an interesting artifact, that album. 

Updated On: 2/7/26 at 11:08 PM

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 2/7/26 at 8:07am

The voices are so good, I wish I could hear this cast sing the original longer version of this song that's on the very first pre-Broadway studioalbum.
 

Umm what are you talking about and where do I find this??

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 2/7/26 at 9:41am

Rentaholic2 said: "The voices are so good, I wish I could hear this cast sing the original longer version of this song that's on the very first pre-Broadway studioalbum.


Umm what are you talking about and where do I find this??"

 

The original studio album has a sort of creme colored background with a drawn version of the logo (a flag streamer and Lady Liberty's arm entwined into an "R"). It's still streaming on Spotify, not sure about other services