Recordings that are good, but the shows, eh

[TTL]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:19pm

Do you guys have any Broadway Cast Recordings of shows that you love, but the shows didn't do so hot on Broadway or last very long??
For Me : SWING!
RIVERDANCE on BROADWAY
YOU'RE A GOODMAN CHARLIE BROWN (Revival)
Joseph.....! (Revival) Updated On: 1/29/04 at 04:19 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:30pm

Excuse me, little boy, but live shows DO NOT HAVE SOUNDTRACKS!!!!!!!! They are Broadway Cast Albums.

Movies (that most disgusting of all art forms) have SOUNDTRACKS.

Now please go up to the board and write it 100 times so you never make that mistake again!

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:33pm

Yes, the "soundtrack" of "Close Encounters of a Third" is incredible, but as I recall the stage production was sadly wanting.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:36pm

Hmm, this might just be because the cast I saw for it was the opposite of energetic but Rent. I love the cd. And it is mostly the show. I don't know, maybe I just have this thing for the original cast. Oh, and the revival of Into the Woods, surprisingly enough Vanessa Williams sounds BETTER on the cd, as well as Little Red Ridinghood.

[Broadwaylilhead]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:40pm

oh these theatre amateurs... what are we to do with them.

that annoys me almost as when i hear people call musicals "plays"....

Soundtracks contain the songs from a movie
Scores are the instrumental music played in movies

[mtboi77]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:41pm

I just got the Amour cast album. It has some nice moments. Though, it was a complete bore from what I hear.

[Broadwaylilhead]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:43pm

Chess is a great recording with awesome numbers; however, the book sucks and the show itself is a bore... I really would love to see it reworked and rewritten because I think it could be an awesome show...

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:43pm

Subject's been changed people.

Move on.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:48pm

I think TTL should be appluaded for making the correction.

Bravo, friend!

[rlbgbc]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:50pm

BAKER STREET.

[Broadwaylilhead]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:52pm

Never heard o Baker Street... what was that? who was in it? I'm assuming some Sherlock Holms thingy..

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:54pm

Ragtime
Jekyll and Hyde (Broadway)
1776 (Revival)
Witches of Eastwick
Aida

[Broadwaylilhead]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:56pm

Ok... I disagree with your selection of Ragtime not being as good on stage as the recording...but agree with your other choices.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 4:57pm

HOUSE OF FLOWERS.

The Encores production proved without a doubt that this, one of Broadway's most lusciously beautiful scores, is married to a godawful, unworkable and REALLY unfixable book.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 5:30pm

I love the recording of Ragtime, but I didn't care for the staging. The staging was so uneven. It couldn't decide if it was a spectacle or minimal. All those people crammed into the stairwells during New Music with practically a bare stage on hand. The Girl in the Swing that never swings with those nightmarish vaudeville costumes. And then I was so disappointed by the book. So many important characters that appear for a song and are never heard from again that were quite integral to the plot of the source material. For me, it was a real let-down. Beautiful score, though.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 5:34pm

o, and BIG. actually, no, i take that back. i really luved BIG. I could have done better with a different young josh and some of the principles. but josh and josh's mom were perfect.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 5:53pm

Rags didn't do well on Broadway, but I like the cast recording.

[robbiej]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 6:00pm

I'm with ya there, MisterMatt. Ragtime...oy. But a FABULOUS cd. Same with LAST FIVE YEARS.

But the revival of 1776?? I can't agree. Well...sorta...LOVED it when I saw it at the Criterion Center w/ Brent Spiner...not so much when in moved to the Gershwin.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 6:12pm

Loved both Baker Street & Amour

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 6:32pm

Ragtime is my favorite play and I love the soundtrack. Or something....

[eponine88]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 6:36pm

I absolutely love the Broadway cast recording of Jekyll and Hyde, but everybody I have talked to who saw it on Broadway said that it really wasn't that great when compared to the cast recording

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 7:02pm

I only saw the final performance of 1776 at the Gershwin. I was in the balcony and that theatre simply swallowed the show. The production seemed pretty slow and was really lacking in emotion. I think the cast just wanted to go home.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 7:07pm

Chris, you know better than to confuse a cast album with a soundtrack. Now you're gonna get bitch-slapped from here to the curb!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 8:49pm

Chris, I know you were joking.


1. CANDIDE (so I'm told, but I liked the Prince '75sh revival)
2. HOUSE OF FLOWERS
3. ST. LOUIS WOMAN
4. BLOOMER GIRL
5. TOO MANY GIRLS

Just to bring in some other shows.

Yours for class (not crass) on Broadway!

Bulldog Updated On: 1/29/04 at 08:49 PM

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 1/29/04 at 10:42pm

He also called Ragtime a play which is a pet peeve of someone (runs to other thread to investigate)