The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#1The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:08pmYeah. The show actually just advertised the cast recording on Comedy Central during South Park as a soundtrack. I don't like that.
bwaydreamer
Stand-by Joined: 3/29/11
#2The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:36pmSo they can't advertise on their show, for their other show they wrote? On an ad that they are paying for? For a show to get people interested in a broadway musical? Jesus, get a life you losers. Ijay889, we GET it. You don't like the BOM. WE GET IT. But if a broadway show is getting a group of people into musicals that would normally not get into musicals, its gross. You guys really really need to get a life.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#3The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:38pmWhat part of this is bad? I don't get it.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#4The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:39pmThey are making a big deal because they used the term soundtrack, and not cast recording.
#5The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:40pm
Ijay889, we GET it. You don't like the BOM. WE GET IT. But if a broadway show is getting a group of people into musicals that would normally not get into musicals, its gross. You guys really really need to get a life.
STFU, newbie. I meant 'ew' to them calling it a soundtrack.
bwaydreamer
Stand-by Joined: 3/29/11
#6The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:42pm
OH NO!! They said soundtrack!!
Again, get over it. Its turning people on to broadway. Even if you don't like the show, its getting more people to come to NY to see theater than any other show out right now. This is a good thing for all shows...Oldbie
Updated On: 5/18/11 at 10:42 PM
#7The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:44pm
The last show to commit such an abomination, that I remember, was LEGALLY BLONDE.
"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
#8The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:45pmWhat crawled up your butt bwaydreamer?
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:46pm
I hate the word "soundtrack".
Let's boycott the show until they correct their egregious error.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
bwaydreamer
Stand-by Joined: 3/29/11
#10The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:47pmread my before message and you will see. "I'm gonna have to ask people to pay attention"
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#11The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:49pmSoundtrack is the incorrect term in this case. It just is. And it's annoying to people who hear it misused over and over because it's really not that complicated of a concept.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#12The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:51pm
What crawled up your butt bwaydreamer?
Obviously not the grammar fairy
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#13The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 11:15pmTo be fair, a cast recording in itself is not a "soundtrack" per se, but it is a subgenre in the Soundtracks genre of MARKETING. This is where I assume much of the confusion among bloggers and advertisers alike comes from- where do you buy cast recordings and soundtracks? In the part of the music store marketed as soundtracks.
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#14The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 11:27pmI love this thread. And it's a cast recording. It's not that hard to figure out what it means.
#15The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/18/11 at 11:48pm
^
Some stores do it right and have soundtracks and cast recordings cataloged appropriately.
#16The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 12:03amVery true, Cats, they're usually next to each other but separate
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#17The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 12:06am
Was it like a stand-alone TV spot? If so...A) weird that they have them for the cast recording and B) weird, since it's referred to as a cast recording on their site.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#18The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 12:23amI'd guess it's an intentional "error" to appeal to and catch the attention of people who know South Park but not Broadway. Speaking their language... still annoying.
broadwaybabe1234
Stand-by Joined: 5/3/09
#19The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 12:49amMiriam Webster Dictionary has the definition of Soundtrack as: The musical accompaniment to a movie. Thats pretty big difference from a cast recording. It doesn't annoy me as much as it does others but they should be professional enough just to know the difference.
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KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#20The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 7:39pm
"Was it like a stand-alone TV spot? If so...A) weird that they have them for the cast recording and B) weird, since it's referred to as a cast recording on their site."
-Yes, it was a TV spot JUST for the cast recording that featured about 15 seconds of "Hello." It basically said that the "soundtrack" is now available, and you could check out their website for free bits of it.
"I'd guess it's an intentional "error" to appeal to and catch the attention of people who know South Park but not Broadway. Speaking their language... still annoying."
-That's what I would think. In some ways, it's clever, but incredibly irritating to me. It's literally one of my biggest (and most pathetic) pet peeves when someone calls a cast recording a soundtrack.
In fact, I remember- my first post on here was asking which Sweeney soundtrack to get. Some people were incredibly snarky, and others kindly corrected me. I've been incredibly aware of it ever since!
#21The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 7:46pm
"Again, get over it. Its turning people on to broadway."
That's right, and teaching them the wrong terms. If you don't teach something the correct way, it will become obsolete.
Formerly: WishingOnlyWounds2 - Broadway Legend - Joined: 9/25/08
#22The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 7:55pm
"STFU, newbie."
That's just pathetic.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#23The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 8:20pm
If you don't teach something the correct way, it will become obsolete
But people have been erreously calling cast recordings soundtracks for as long as I can remember, and it hasn't stopped them from existing or being called by their proper names by people know it. Or are you saying that if they are continued to be called soundtracks they will eventually stop being made?
I sincerely doubt this was some sort of canny, "deliberate" mistake. Even people in the know often make the mistake. I've seen interviews with Broadway performers who have referred to cast recordings as soundtracks. To some people (most, I'd venture to guess) it's just not a big deal. Because it isn't.
I call them cast recordings, but I don't lose my sh*t when someone else calls it a soundtrack. It just doesn't matter to me.
#24The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial
Posted: 5/19/11 at 9:12pm
Why wasn't that caught? Strange that no one noticed. But I doubt most of the people who saw that commercial will ever want to talk about cast recordings anyway. No harm done. (Because being subjected to mistakes like this is horribly painful)
Updated On: 5/19/11 at 09:12 PM
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