SWEENEY TODD (2023) Broadway Revival Cast Recording Thread — Page 2

yes!!! 

Ashford and Groban sound SUPERB, but I'm still noticing that the ensemble sounds muffled. Regardless, I am beyond excited for the release of the full album. I just wish they'd give a release date!!!

ColorTheHours048 said: "StefanieBway said: "Ashford and Groban sound SUPERB, but I'm still noticing that the ensemble sounds muffled. Regardless, I am beyond excited for the release of the full album. I just wish they'd give a release date!!!"

Thank you! I thought I was crazy. On both “The Ballad” and now “My Friends”, it sounds like the ensemble was cut and pasted into the mix from a lower quality recording. Them coming in sounds too jarring, and they sound like mush in comparison."

Mush - that's exactly what I hear too! I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the intention of the ensemble sounding so muffled... but maybe when it all comes together it will make more sense. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt because this production was stellar!

They’re really releasing this album the Hadestown way? That was so annoying. 

Groban, Jordan Fisher (Anthony Hope), Maria Bilbao (Johanna), and Ruthie Ann Miles (Beggar Woman) performing "Johanna (Act 2 Sequence)":

I completely agree - at this point I'm over it, I don't want any more singles released... I want them to wait for the whole thing. Instead of building anticipation it's creating frustration and making me less excited for the full album. Maybe it's just me, but I am CRAVING listening to it all the way through, and all the skipping around of single tracks... just save them. Release them together, they'll hold more weight.

chrishuyen said: "It's weird because it feels like they're just dropping singles whenever they finish mixing each one individually or something, with no build up."

Pretty much what Hadestown did. It was annoying then and it's annoying now.

chrishuyen said: "It's weird because it feels like they're just dropping singles whenever they finish mixing each one individually or something, with no build up. Like KPOP had some advance singles but they announced which days each one would be released and had a whole campaign around the release of their full album, but for this it's really just like "oh another one is out now?" I agree that they should at least have a placeholder album on streaming services, so that you can have the singles automatically added to your library (at least that's how it works on Apple Music), but they're all being released as actual singles which is strange, though the Johanna single is actually an EP that contains all the singles released so far, but I'm not sure if that's the label's doing or if someone at Apple Music just wised up and threw them all together."

Yea, the EP thing is happening on Spotify as well. 

Musicaldudepeter said: "This By The Sea ends the same way the track on the OBC does - without the 'here comes the bride' gag on the harmonium. Why? In the theater, does Ashford 'play' the gag at the end? Why did they change it for the recording, and furthermore why was it the same on the OBC? So bizarre"

Maybe they feel that it wouldn't work well on the recording.

Epiphany will be the next single released tomorrow: 

https://ew.com/theater/josh-groban-sweeney-todd-epiphany/

It sounds phenomenal!!