SUFFS Original Broadway Cast Recording Thread — Page 2

TaffyDavenport said: "I'd say just listen to "Finish the Fight," which is the show's"I Want" song, sung by Alice Paul."

Perfect thanks I’ll take a listen when I get a moment!

Love listening to this. This is my best score winner hands down. Despite being firmly “contemporary” musical theater, it is probably the most “traditional” of all the best score nominees. I think in a season that has both a play with music and a dance musical stealing people’s hearts, Tony voters will choose this best score as a nod to the more traditional “book” musical.

Congrats Shaina, it really is excellent.

Just read through this article on Playbill where Shaina talks a bit about the process for writing/rewriting each song and thought it really interesting to see how she (and her collaborators) came up with the changes they needed.

https://playbill.com/article/how-shaina-taub-wrote-and-rewrote-the-36-songs-of-suffs

chrishuyen said: "Just read through this article on Playbill where Shaina talks a bit about the process for writing/rewriting each song and thought it really interesting to see how she (and her collaborators) came up with the changes they needed.

https://playbill.com/article/how-shaina-taub-wrote-and-rewrote-the-36-songs-of-suffs"

Yeah, I thought that was a great read and was going to post it here as well.

If you're looking for the insane note that Jenn starts in head voice and then SOMEHOW builds into a full belt - it's towards the end of Fire and Tea.

Having listened to this through a few times now, I can confidently say this is my Best Score winner. It's somehow the only one of the five nominees that feels like an actual musical score. It's great, and makes me want to see a show that I had no interest in before.

SUFFS is winning Best Score, Best Book coupled with Best Musical!

I don’t think so? I have been listening since the Apple Music release and always recall it having looked as follows:



I do know what art you’re talking about - the Keep Marching EP is still available for streaming separately with it. But they are two separate albums and AFAIK the “OBCR” art was attributed to the actual cast recording the day the full album was added to Apple Music.

Haha yeah I hear you

A sidenote but for all the fantastic keyart out there this season, Suffs ranks lower on the list for me personally. The purple and gold with the textured look is pretty, but the actual key art feels a bit blank/suffers from too much negative space. I don’t think the women marching at the top fills enough of it. I always think to myself it would make so much sense to overlay some flames/sparks coming up from the bottom cut of the artwork — that way it adds some more visual interest, matches the “when there isn’t a trail, blaze one” tagline, and is a subtle nod to the particularly large climactic moment in Act 2.

Aaaaand, that way when we see the art on the marquee and on the Apple Music interface, the sparking fire can have some cool looping animations that you see on most other albums/artwork these days :)

Updated On: 8/6/24 at 02:05 AM