Spanish cast recordings - HELP!

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 10:35pm

Hello All:
I've collected 20 + Spanish cast recordings but I am always looking for more. I seem to be at a standstill in my search. I've bought everything I could find on Dresscircle, eBay, Amazon US and UK, and Footlight. PLEASE point me to some more sites where I can find Spanish recordings. Doesn't matter in what city the show was preformed, as long as they're singing in Spanish. Any help appreciated! Besos!!

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 10:37pm

OH MY GOD! Where do you find Spanish Cast Recordings? I'm dying to listen to the Gypsy one with Sylvia Pinal and her daughter Alejandra Guzman. You said you had 20, which shows do you have?

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 12:59am

i have "grease!" in spanish, "my fair lady", "dracula", "fame" and "kiss of the spider woman" in spanish. Love them!

[Marquise]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 1:14am

If anyone gets there hands on the GYPSY recording starring Sylvia Pinal and Alejandra Guzman please PM me. I am dying to here it.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 6:58pm

Muscle, who stars on the "Kiss of the Spider Woman" Spanish recording. If anyone has more info on this topic, please PM me.

[blaxx]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 7:29pm

I have a few, ask me what you need...
That Gypsy recording is quite bad, btw.

EDIT: I left a few in a friend's house, now that I checked. But I have the Mexican cast of Phantom of the Opera and JCS, Spain's Evita, A Mexican musical version of Houdini, at the moment.

Updated On: 10/17/05 at 07:29 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 7:35pm

Valeria Lynch was in "Kiss of the spider woman"...i have no idea if you can get the cd online...i think so though...she was really good as Aurora/Spider Woman. In spanish it's called "El beso de la mujer arana".

Updated On: 10/17/05 at 07:35 PM

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 8:24pm

http://www.amazon.fr

http://www.amazon.de

http://www.amazon.ca

often the french, german, and canadian versions of Amazon have spanish ones

also, try

http://www.soundofmusic-shop.de/

this is an article on spanish and mexican recordings of American and British musicals. Perhaps you can email the author and ask him, he seems to know a lot on the subject

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=506653

Updated On: 10/17/05 at 08:24 PM

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 10:31pm

Thanks for the tips, keep 'em coming! So far I have

Chicago
Hair
Evita
Peter Pan
Zorba
Los Miserables
El Hombre de la Mancha (Mexico City & Madrid)
Sunset Blvd.
We Will Rock You
The Full Monty (Catalana)
Cabaret
The Wizard of Oz (Mago de Oz)
Hello, Dolly! (!Que tal, Dolly!)
Grease
Fiddler (Violinista en el Tejado)
Sweeney Todd
Rocky Horror (El Show de Terror de Rocky)
Jesuchristo Superstar
Jekyll & Hyde

And these Disney animated films:
The Little Mermaid (La Sirenita)
Pinocho
The Lion King (El Rey Leon)
The Jungle Book (El Libro de la Selva)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (El Jorobado de Notre Dame)
Pocahontas

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 11:57pm

I knew about the Disney animated films but I so didn't know about all those great musicals like Kiss of the Spider Woman and Chicago had been recorded in Spanish, that's so amazing. I'm actually getting a certificate in Translation Studies so maybe one day I'll get to translate some of the new shows, who knows, hehe?

[joshy]

Posted: 10/18/05 at 3:23pm

Woahh, where did you get the Los Miserables recording? I neeed it. :) I can only find expensive used ones on amazon.

[Marquise]

Posted: 10/18/05 at 5:00pm

I have the Spanish recording of EVITA starring Paloma San Basilio and her version of "No Llores Por Mi Argentina"

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/18/05 at 6:08pm

Awww, I used to have "No Llores Por Mi Argentina" in my computer! Paloma San Basilio has such a powerful voice, my mom introduced me to this song and she just gets very emotional when she listens to it. I'm actually taking her to see the Evita tour when it comes to FL next month.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/18/05 at 6:26pm

I have quite a few including the Argetine Kiss of the Spider Woman recording with Valeria Lynch which I bought on my trip to Buenos Aires. If I remember correctly, it was recorded live. I even have some really interesting ones like You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Martin Guerre and Falsettos. I even have a rather bizarre Spanish recording of Big that is obviously prerecorded backtracks with live, and rather weak, singing. I have no idea where it originated.

ChrisLovesShows - I saw the Madrid production of El Hombre de la Mancha. It was PAINFUL! Prerecorded music and a production where it was obvious the director knew NOTHING about the concept of the show. Let's just say the first act ended (yes, there was thankfully an intermission) with a DREAM WEDDING of Aldonza and Don Quixote with the rest of the cast elaborately costumed as guests. We shot out of there like a rocket at intermission and never looked back.

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 10/18/05 at 6:53pm

Hee, hee, sounds awful Matt!

I think I got Los Miserables at Dresscircle.com. Goodness, I don't clearly remember.

[JMVR]

Posted: 10/18/05 at 6:57pm

Chris:

I am intrigued: who sings in the Sunset Blvd. recording you own? I had no idea it has been produced in Spanish.

As for info, there is a yahoo group "solo_musicales' in which posters usually offer their collections for sale or exchange.

The Silvia Pinal Gypsy is only interesting as a preservation of the show, but as a recording it is pretty lackluster. I have many recordings but sadly, they are stored back home and I don't know when I;ll be able to get my hands on them. Just for reference, I have things like Annie Get Your Gun, Mame, Annie, Robin Hood, Que Planton, La Cage Aux Folles, Cats and Nunsense, all Mexican Cast.

[BroadwayDoc]

Posted: 10/20/05 at 3:17pm

I've got a two great shows in Spanish that were recorded but never released. RENT (a highlights disc which was recorded live) and FALSETTOLAND.

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 10/26/05 at 10:09pm

JMVR,
I bought the CD of Sunset Blvd. on eBay and, although it was presented as an original recording, it looks like a copy. The seller clearly made the "booklet" on a home computer. So, I only have the track list, but no cast members or singers are listed. There are some nice voices, but some, like Norma unfortunately, struggle to stay on key!

[Jon]

Posted: 10/27/05 at 12:52am

The original Mexico City cast recording of MI BELLA DAMA (My Fair Lady) features a young Placido Domingo as one of the Cockneys who back up Doolittle on "A Little Bit of Luck".

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 10/27/05 at 2:26am

Who stars as Eliza though? I can't believe Placido Domingo was just one of the cockneys, nice to know.