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Recordings that are good, but the shows, eh

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

#2

re: Soundtracks that are good, but the shows, eh.

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!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
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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.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
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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
Call it a regime change...
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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...
Call it a regime change...
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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.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
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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.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
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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.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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