The Book of Mormon SOUNDTRACK Commercial

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:08pm

Yeah. The show actually just advertised the cast recording on Comedy Central during South Park as a soundtrack. I don't like that.

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:09pm

Ew -_-

[bwaydreamer]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:36pm

So 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]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:38pm

What part of this is bad? I don't get it.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:39pm

They are making a big deal because they used the term soundtrack, and not cast recording.

[ljay889]

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]

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

[binau]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:44pm

The last show to commit such an abomination, that I remember, was LEGALLY BLONDE.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:45pm

What crawled up your butt bwaydreamer?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:46pm

I hate the word "soundtrack".

Let's boycott the show until they correct their egregious error.

[bwaydreamer]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:47pm

read my before message and you will see. "I'm gonna have to ask people to pay attention"

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:49pm

Soundtrack 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.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 10:51pm

What crawled up your butt bwaydreamer?

Obviously not the grammar fairy

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 11:15pm

To 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]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 11:27pm

I love this thread. And it's a cast recording. It's not that hard to figure out what it means.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/18/11 at 11:48pm

^

Some stores do it right and have soundtracks and cast recordings cataloged appropriately.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/19/11 at 12:03am

Very true, Cats, they're usually next to each other but separate

[Kad]

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.

[jpbran]

Posted: 5/19/11 at 12:23am

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.

[broadwaybabe1234]

Posted: 5/19/11 at 12:49am

Miriam 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.

[KirbyCat]

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!

[Wishing Only Wounds]

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.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 5/19/11 at 7:55pm

"STFU, newbie."

That's just pathetic.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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.

[Katia2]

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