SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
#1SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 8/29/24 at 12:39pm
I don’t normally do these for London cast albums, but because all four principals in this production are coming to Broadway, here goes…
Releases October 25 digitally, physically, and on vinyl! Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Don Black
*Recorded live at the Savoy Theatre*
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Updated On: 8/29/24 at 12:39 PM
#2SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 8/29/24 at 1:02pm
Track listing:
- ACT I
- 1. Overture
- 2. Let Me Take You Back
- 3. Let’s Do Lunch
- 4. Betty’s Pitch
- 5. The Car Chase
- 6. Surrender
- 7. With One Look
- 8. Scene: Did you say you were a writer?
- 9. Salome
- 10. The Greatest Star of All
- 11. Schwab’s Drugstore
- 12. Girl Meets Boy
- 13. Scene: Where have you been?
- 14. I Started Work
- 15. What’s On This Evening?
- 16. New Ways to Dream
- 17. Scene: Today’s the day
- 18. New Year’s Tango
- 19. The Perfect Year
- 20. This Time Next Year
- 21. Scene: Happy New Year, darling
- ACT II
- 22. Entr’acte
- 23. Sunset Boulevard
- 24. There’s Been a Call / It Took Her Three Days
- 25. Arrival at Paramount
- 26. Norma in the Studio
- 27. As If We Never Said Goodbye
- 28. Paramount Conversations / Surrender (Reprise)
- 29. Girl Meets Boy (Reprise)
- 30. Scene: Who’s Betty Schaefer? / I Should Have Stayed There
- 31. Scene: The Back Lot
- 32. Too Much in Love to Care
- 33. Scene: I made her a star
- 34. New Ways to Dream (Reprise)
- 35. The Phone Call
- 36. What’s Going On, Joe?
- 37. No One Ever Leaves a Star
- 38. Max, Where Am I?
- 39. End Credits
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#3SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 8/30/24 at 7:10am
Super excited for this recording (and the production itself)!
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#4SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 8/30/24 at 4:04pm
This looks like it will be the most complete recording of the show yet. Love how many tracks this is split into. While I love recordings that include scenes and/or dialogue, I really love when they are separate tracks. What is usually one long track for 'the Final Scene' is now 3 tracks. Amazing. And love that they are including the exit music.
#5SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 8/30/24 at 6:38pm
FANtomFollies said: "This looks like it will be the most complete recording of the show yet."
How can you call this more complete? It seems likely to be the complete show as performed in this production but this production doesn't use "The Lady's Paying" or "Eternal Youth." The American Premiere Recording is pretty much complete it's just missing some scene change music and the exit music, though the Perfect Year promotional single with Glenn has a suite which is essentially the exit music.
#6SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 8/31/24 at 7:25am
CATSNYrevival said: "FANtomFollies said: "This looks like it will be the most complete recording of the show yet."
How can you call this more complete? It seemslikely to be the complete show as performed in this production but this production doesn't use"The Lady's Paying" or"Eternal Youth."
Honestly I completely forgot about those songs.
#7SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 8/31/24 at 8:28am
I never want to see or hear the show another way now. It’s like the Sam Mendes cabaret has happened and there is no going back.
"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
#8SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 8/31/24 at 11:18am
I may just be stuck in my ways, but I prefer the longer tracks for the last few scenes. Regardless, very happy to have preordered this recording! Love that it was (supposedly) recorded live.
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#9SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 9/1/24 at 12:38am
I understand the massive cost savings, but I hate these live recordings. 😢
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#10SUNSET BOULEVARD 2024 West End Cast Recording Thread
Posted: 9/1/24 at 10:15am
All four? I might have to listen closely to this one, just to be sure...
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