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Road show cast album
#50re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/2/09 at 9:59pm
That's nice that ROAD SHOW is being recorded, but how sad that a revised edition of BOUCE gets an album, but something as divine as THE VISIT couldn't have been preserved.
(Not to mention the travesty of the recent LA CAGE and 3PENNY OPERA revivals going unrecorded).
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#51re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/2/09 at 10:40pmWell perhaps the idea of "The Visit" getting recorded was tossed around, but the producers were waiting for a more high profile venture? I don't think that show is "dead" just yet. It did make the Times Magazine top 10.
#52re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/3/09 at 1:12am
LA CAGE was a revival without any significant changes to the score. A new recording would be pointless with the original still available and about as good as we'll likely ever get.
ROAD SHOW has a number of changes to existing songs and a couple of new ones as well.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#53re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/3/09 at 8:10amI'm so glad to hear of a new cast recording. I cannot stand Richard Kind' voice on the Bounce recording.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#54re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/3/09 at 9:18am
I would LOVE for this to be true. I enjoyed the production immensely and would love the chance to listen to the music more closely.
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Updated On: 1/3/09 at 09:18 AM
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#56re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:27am
I second the lament of THE VISIT not being recorded. But it would have been rare for a production that size to get recorded. I imagine the producers were hoping for a New York life, and would consider a recording at that time. Too bad the Public production fell through, and that they never rescheduled it.
That said, I'm really hoping the ROAD SHOW recording happens.
#57re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/3/09 at 1:47pmThis is weird. I wonder if it's happening or not. If It's not on PS or Nonesuch I do not who release it.
LadyRosecoe
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/07
#58re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/3/09 at 3:14pmHow about Sh-K-Boom, they've done Public shows before. I hope this happens as well, I want a nice, clear recording done.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#59re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/6/09 at 7:43pm
Well let's not rule out A recording of The Visit. Someone might choose to fund a studio recording. You know?
But I hope Road Show gets recorded.
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#60re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/6/09 at 10:50pmughh I really wanted to see this show. Please record!
#61re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/18/09 at 11:01pmSo, tonight, at Stephen Sondheim's interview with Frank Rich at Lincoln Center, he said that Road Show should be getting a recording, and it should be recorded in February.
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#62re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/18/09 at 11:03pmYou beat me by a minute! I added it to the other thread on the talk.
#63re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/19/09 at 2:48amOH MY GOD YESSSSSS!!!!!!! That's great news!!
"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
#64re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/19/09 at 3:24amIt makes sense to record it if the show is to have any regional life at all.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#65re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:13am
I'm well pleased though I was pretty sure it would be recorded (in the current climate of cast albums prob selling less than ever a Sondheim show is relatively a pretty solid choice I think--his major cast albums seem to be pretty steady sellers).
"I'm so glad to hear of a new cast recording. I cannot stand Richard Kind' voice on the Bounce recording"
You and me both--maybe it's unfair but I just always see his character from Spin City who I *hated*
#66re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/19/09 at 4:23am
I loved Richard Kind in the role.
I was on the fence about Alexander Gemignani, I had seen him in a couple things and thought he was "promising." But found him mis-cast in ROAD SHOW...
... but then again, I might just be that I liked BOUNCE more.
What great ones do the less will prattle of
#67re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/19/09 at 2:12pm
This is so exciting. It will be another great PS Classics recording
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/125358.html
#68re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/19/09 at 2:55pm
Sweet!
Although I wish PS Classics was still using their old packaging style (the one used for 110 IN THE SHADE, ASSASSINS, etc.) Those are just beautiful things.
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-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#69re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/19/09 at 3:40pmIt could be a Nonesuch-PS Classics hybrid like Company.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#70re: Road show cast album
Posted: 1/19/09 at 3:56pm
Such good news.
I've wanted to like BOUNCE, but just can't bring myself to do it. Most of the songs are great, but the whole piece is so unaffecting. And since I didn't get to see ROAD SHOW, I'm going to relish the chance to revisit this work in a hopefully more successful form.
#71re: Road show cast album
Posted: 2/8/09 at 7:07pm
Both BOUNCE and ROAD SHOW have their strengths and weaknesses. The 2nd Act of BOUNCE showed Sondheim and Prince at the top of their game (as did some sequences in Act One as well) but overall ROAD SHOW was better. It was tighter, faster and more focused on the two brothers. The downside is that much of what did work in BOUNCE was trimmed or altered.
In re-reading this thread I am again amused by posts of rumors heard from a friend of a friend of a cast member stating the recording would be done just after the show closed.
NEVER believe anything that is not substantiated by an official announcement. (I am still squelching rumors that CRY BABY was recorded and awaiting release. And No, Bryan, it isn't.)
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#73re: Road show cast album
Posted: 2/9/09 at 12:27am
Well we're getting one DG so just be patient :P. When does spring start in the US?
How long did it take for other Sondheim PC classics cast albums to be released after recording?
"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: 2/9/09 at 12:27 AM
#74re: Road show cast album
Posted: 3/11/09 at 5:13pm
A little bit of information/acknowledgment of the released on the PSClassics website:
http://www.psclassics.com/
"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
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