REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
#1REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 4/22/25 at 9:11am
Releases May 13 digitally, June 13 physically, and July 25 on vinyl! Music by Kate Diaz, lyrics by Kate Diaz and Tina Landau
First listen of Idina Menzel (Jesse) performing "In the Leaves":
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Updated On: 4/22/25 at 09:11 AM
#2REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 4/22/25 at 9:15am
Track listing:
- 1. Drive
- 2. The Trees
- 3. Climb
- 4. Little Redwood
- 5. The Stars
- 6. Big Tree Religion
- 7. Back Then
- 8. The Ascent
- 9. Great Escape
- 10. Roots
- 11. Little Redwood (Reprise)
- 12. Looking Through This Lens
- 13. In the Leaves
- 14. Becca's Song
- 15. No Repair
- 16. The Fires
- 17. The Rain
- 18. Still
- 19. Finale
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#3REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 4/22/25 at 9:24am
If the grosses continue at this level the release might coincide with its closing.
#4REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/5/25 at 10:31am
This aged like fine wine.
Khaila Wilcoxon (Becca) performing “Little Redwood”:
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#5REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/9/25 at 9:02am
Zachary Noah Piser (Spencer) and Menzel performing "Still":
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#6REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/9/25 at 10:02am
Beautiful and moving. One of my favourite new songs from the season. Did people really walk out feeling unsatisfied after it????
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
rg7759
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/16
#7REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/9/25 at 10:12am
I would echo what others have said that it's just not for everyone. If you want a story about loss you'll probably like it. Part of it is that it's borderline play with songs rather than musical. I really liked it but I guess in hindsight kind of a tough sell
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#8REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/9/25 at 10:31am
I finally caught this the other day and found most of the music to be quite good, if generics at times.
The problem with the show really isn’t the music or the story/concept—though those aren’t perfect either—it’s a completely incoherent book that sinks the piece.
Songs like “The Great Escape” and “In The Leaves” should have been thrilling, but I just didn’t feel like the book set up this songs to have any valuable context or meaning. I saw Idina perform these songs in concert over the summer, and frankly, she did a far better job of contextualizing the songs and setting them up for emotional impact than the book of this show does.
I imagine some folks will enjoy these songs out of context more than they would have in the show.
#9REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/12/25 at 11:37am
Ready to climb? Tomorrow, the full album is yours to s(tree)m.
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#10REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/12/25 at 4:15pm
Didn’t get to see this one. Not sure why it didn’t get much love but digging the score.
#11REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/12/25 at 4:34pm
FOR whatever complaints there might be at the show, it is a pleasure to have that iconic original thick pop sounding voice of Elphaba and Elsa singing brand new theatrical music for us again. e.g. "The Stars". It's THAT voice, the one that only comes about once every decade (Rent, Wicked, If/Then-Frozen, Redwood). The one we LOVE hearing on every studio recording we've ever heard, but never sure where it's going to go live...are we getting a repeat of the 2003 Tonys or the slime tutorial on YouTube that has appeared showing she had absolutely pristine pitch perfect vocals on the Broadway stage at times?
You know, the voice that even non-theatre commoners know so that we finally can have something in common to talk about when they don't want really want to know the history of Bernadette's vocal peak and decline and the differences between how she sung Rose's Turn in early previews vs opening night vs cast recording vs closing night vs Lincoln archive.
"OMG YASSSS GIRL, I LOVE WICKED TOO IDINA IS THE BEST LUV DEFYING GRAVITY".
Or the voice that actually means you don't HATE it when parents keep playing "Let It Go" to their 5 year olds over and over and over again.
Idina, you sound FANTASTIC on the recording and there is only ONE YOU!!!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#12REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/13/25 at 12:00am
Now out digitally — keep those thoughts coming, everyone.
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#13REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/13/25 at 3:00am
Overall, I find that the music is a bit stronger than the lyrics (which range from elegantly simple to sounding AI generated). I'm enjoying hearing what sounds like electronic music or electronic-inspired even if performed live (in fact some of the songs are quite high energy with the beats I would fantasise about Idina performing a solo concert version of the entire score in a club), and the composer really has worked with Idina's strengths to give us variations on a theme of heightened emotions and vulnerability. I think I prefer the melodies in Redwood than If/Then. I kind of get why Idina might have fallen in love with the show
Songs I'd recommend if people are trying to find the good:
"Drive"
"The Trees" (beautiful instrumental)
"The Stars"
"Great Escape" (it sounds like the song has actually changed notable from the demo on the website - they've changed the pitch of some of the verses and maybe even the final note if I recall correctly?)
"In the Leaves"
"No Repair"
"The Fires"
"Still"
100% I will find regular rotations of these songs in life.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 5/13/25 at 03:00 AM
#14REDWOOD Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 5/13/25 at 10:07am
I'll give my full thoughts tomorrow, but I'm so glad the cringey Spencer-Mel rap moment didn't make it onto this album.
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