The Landing to be recoreded....and probably never released

[tazber]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 4:26am

Jay is recording the score in November. While no release date has been set, I'm hearing they're targeting sometime in 2063 to coincide with the show's 50th anniversary.
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[Owen22]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 10:44am

...I don't even understand the satire behind this post....

[tazber]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 11:15am

Jay Records is notorious for taking several years to release albums they have recorded.

[christhefish]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 2:38pm

I was so excited to see the Playbill article this morning reporting the recording, then I realized it was Jay Records and went back to bed. I will freely admit I know nothing about the business of making a cast recording, but why does it take Jay Records years to do what Ghostlight and PS Classics do in months?

[binau]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 4:36pm

It must simply be bad leadership, project management and marketing in my opinion. Jay records is a joke. In the end I imagine it's a pretty unprofitable business so there isn't much motivation for them (him?) to do a good job. But it's just ridiculous. Jay Records isn't very good at releasing records.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 4:51pm

Would it have been recorded if not for Jay?

[jv92]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 5:09pm

They DID release SCOTTSBORO BOYS pretty quickly.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 5:17pm

Good point. Would anyone else have recorded it?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 5:23pm

Kander and Ebb's final Broadway score? Probably. It's extremely rare that a new Broadway musical does not get recorded unless it has a previous original cast recording from the UK.

[binau]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 5:35pm

Ebb didn't do the lyrics for this one..it was Greg Pierce.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 6:00pm

There were 2 other scores that K/E did they never were produced on Broadway

The Visit
Skin Of Our Teeth

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 10/11/13 at 11:34pm

Didn't it only take months for the Closer Than Ever revival album to come out?

[Rinaldo]

Posted: 10/12/13 at 7:00am

Yes. And there are other such examples.

The difference seems to be that the producers of a currently running show put up all the money needed to record and release it. The JAY recordings that sit unreleased for decades are the archival studio recordings of classics, which apparently lack the underwriting to see them through to completion and release.

[binau]

Posted: 10/12/13 at 7:13am

Where is the musicality of Sondheim v2 with Victoria Clark's FOLLIES tracks?

[JayG]

Posted: 10/13/13 at 9:13am

Good. It's awful.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/15/13 at 6:08pm

Ebb didn't do the lyrics for this one..it was Greg Pierce.

I was referring to Scottsboro Boys.