SHUCKED Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread

Shucked will be releasing an original Broadway cast recording!

The news of the cast album was revealed in a series of Instagram stories posted by members of the company of Shucked! Shucked is the new Broadway musical comedy, featuring a book by Tony Award® winner Robert Horn, a score by the Nashville songwriting team of Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, who collectively have earned three Grammy Awards® and 18 Grammy nominations, and direction by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien. Shucked, currently in previews, will officially open at the Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street) on Tuesday, April 4.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/SHUCKED-to-Release-Original-Broadway-Cast-Recording-20230320?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Updated On: 3/20/23 at 11:15 AM

This is going to be an interesting one. It’s such a ballad heavy show with pretty much everything that makes the show worth seeing, being in the book (save for a song or two). Not sure how this one will play on disc for people who haven’t seen the show. 

^ They were smart to release that song. It is truly the best song in the show.

I think there are 3 songs in the show that will make this a good buy:  "Windows/Walls", "Somebody Will", and the rouser, "Independently Owned and Operated".  

"Windows" is a message number, and has a good contemporary vibe.  "Somebody Will" is a country roller with a Garth Brooks feel.  "Independently" is all Broadway puncher.  

I'm looking forward to the drop!

Brandy & Shane deserve kudos for parachuting onto Broadway with some fun numbers that advance the plot and/or flesh out characters, while also crafting a few punch numbers.

Track Listing:

1. Overture

2. Corn

3. Walls

4. Walls (Reprise)

5. The Travelling Song

6. Bad

7. Woman of the World

8. Somebody Will

9. Independently Owned

10. Holy SH*T

11. Maybe Love

12. Corn (Reprise)

13. Entr'acte

14. We Love Jesus

15. OK

16. That's How You Say I Do

17. Friends

18. Best Man

19. The Corn Mix

20. Maybe Love (Reprise)

21. Friends (Bonus Track) - performed by Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally

22. Maybe Love (Bonus Track) - performed by Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally

The songs are the best part of this cheesy/corny (haha) but loveable show so I'm really looking forward to this. 

It's out now! Who's listening?

This album is pure cornography.

Awww some of these songs are cute. I'm not sure the opening number 'Corn' on disc would ever convince me to see the show, but some of the other songs have. 

I mean I know Some Like It Hot and Kimberly Akimbo are widely considered the front runners but Shucked for best score? Just me?

I am loving the cast recording!

Seeing Shucked blind before the cast recording, there are so many gems on the second listen. Independently Owned of course shines, but Andrew Durand also sounds so great in Ok and Somebody Will. Maybe Love reprise is so cute too. 

Preaching to the choir, but I hope shucked wins something on Tony night. It feels a little like a repeat of 2018 of the Prom vs the Band's Visit again (Shucked being the Prom in my comparison). Perhaps Alex Newell has the best chance, though Justin Cooley was admittedly excellent as well.