Posted: 8/13/15 at 10:54pm
I would have loved if they had made a cast album for the Newsies closing cast. Corey Cott, Ben Fanhauser, Andy Richardson, Giuseppe Bausilios, Nico Greetham, Tommy Martinez, Danny Quadrino.
Also I wish that they would have made a cast album from Ever After. If they are not going to take it to Broadway, still hope they do, I wish that they would have made a cast album.
Posted: 8/13/15 at 11:34pm
I'd like an Ever after recording as well. I'm dying to hear audio of Jane Krakowski in the Xanadu workshop.
Posted: 8/13/15 at 11:36pm
I would also like to hear The Highest Yellow. It had a great cast and it sounds interesting.
I also could've gone for A Little Miss Sunshine cast recording. I would've liked to have heard it since I didn't get to see it.
Posted: 8/14/15 at 12:48am
I'd like an Ever After recording for a handful of songs and because there can never be too much James Snyder. He sounded fantastic. I didn't really like any of the ballads though and while she was great, I don't think anything they wrote for Christine Ebersole really worked.
Posted: 8/14/15 at 1:14am
1998 London revival of Into the Woods with Sophie Thompson, Jenna Russell and Sheridan Smith
2004 Broadway revival of La Cage aux folles with Gary Beach
1996 London revival of Guys and Dolls with Imelda Staunton as Adelaide
Posted: 8/14/15 at 1:24am
"d.g.e.l.g.i
Corrected spelling of his name . A copy would be great. Thanks. Are you talking of an audio or video? Either one would be great"
It's g.d.e.l.g.i., but that's cool, everyone screws it up. And I'm speaking of an audio. Check your private messages.
Updated On: 8/14/15 at 01:24 AM
Posted: 8/14/15 at 5:23am
"^^Is there a cast album or are you talking about her Marilyn tribute album?
"Some tracks were recorded, but no OLC was ever released.
From the same year, I would also like to have the NT production of Marvin Hamlisch's 'Jean Seberg'
Posted: 8/14/15 at 6:53am
Billy Elliot Broadway Cast with Trent Kowalik or Giuseppe Bausillo
Hedwig with Andrew Rannells ( In my opinion his vocal performance was one of the best)
Posted: 8/14/15 at 6:57am
I wish there were a hedwig Broadway recording with pretty much anyone other than NPH. (Well, I never saw Michael c hall.) I never saw him but I don't love the recording. I have the movie soundtrack but the arrangements are just a bit different (especially sugar daddy which I greatly prefer the Broadway version.)
Posted: 8/14/15 at 12:18pm
The cast recording of the 2012 London revival of A Chorus Line. It's such a shame this recording got canceled 
I also think it's sad that they didn't give Hitlist (Smash) a cast album like they gave Bombshell AND I would've loved an English recording (or just a bonus single) of Wicked with the marvelous Willemijn Verkaik.
Updated On: 8/14/15 at 12:18 PM
Posted: 8/14/15 at 12:20pm
The London cast of Footloose in 2006.
Posted: 8/14/15 at 1:08pm
A * COMPLETE WORK * recording of Jekyll & Hyde featuring the original Broadway cast.
Note: By "* COMPLETE WORK * recording" I mean a recording that has every finished song from the score sung by Cuccioli and Co. (so this would include songs like The World Has Gone Insane, I Need to Know, Bitch! Bitch! Bitch!, If You Only Knew, Girls of the Night, Jekyll's version of Once Upon a Dream, the Once Upon a Dream (Reprise) finale, the full version of Streak of Madness, Jekyll's Plea, Sympathy, Tenderness (Reprise), Bring on the Men, and Here's to the Night recorded alongside the songs (save for Obsession) featured on the Original Broadway Cast Recording originally released in 1997).
Updated On: 8/14/15 at 01:08 PM
Posted: 8/14/15 at 3:36pm
In the vein of DigificWriter's post, how about a series of studio cast recordings designed specifically to reflect the licensed version of a show? As many an author will tell you, some shows don't remain frozen once they've opened on Broadway. Many of the formula spectaculars like Phantom and Wicked still monkeyed around with material well into their runs, either in the original Broadway production, in the West End, on tour, in a revival, etc., and a lot of shows that appeared on Broadway in one rendition are licensed in a version that is significantly different, but not reflected in any official recording of the show. (This would also be especially useful for shows like God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater that are now available for licensing but lack any reference recording other than a composer demo.)
There is at least one subset of glaring examples to point to. Many of Frank Wildhorn's musicals (as DfW sort of pointed out) do not have any recording that completely, accurately reflects the version of the show that is licensed (in addition to Jekyll & Hyde, which is licensed in two or three separate versions from MTI, none of which have a reference recording that reflects them, there is still no Scarlet Pimpernel recording that reflects the show as licensed).
Posted: 8/14/15 at 4:17pm
The London Guys & Dolls revival with Jane Krakowski & Ewan McGregor! Jane was phenomenal the orchestrations were terrific.
Lestat the San Francisco version was better than Broadway (not that it takes much)
Eric Whiacre's anamie techno pop opera Paradise Lost: Shadows & Wings with the original Pasadena cast the sound was incredible!
Posted: 8/14/15 at 4:33pm
Whistle Down The Wind - the D.C. tryput was sung gorgeously by Davis Gaines, Irene Malloy and the entire cast. Yes, it needed work but was a million times better than the unwatchable London production. NEVER let Hal Prince go!!' Would be a beautiful recording!
Posted: 8/14/15 at 5:20pm
"Billy Elliot Broadway Cast with Trent Kowalik or Giuseppe Bausillo
Hedwig with Andrew Rannells ( In my opinion his vocal performance was one of the best)
I would like to 2nd that, I would love to have the Billy Elliot cast album with Giuseppe Bausillo, his performance was truly spectacular.
Posted: 8/14/15 at 5:24pm
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Updated On: 8/14/15 at 05:24 PM
Posted: 8/14/15 at 5:32pm
"Whistle Down The Wind - the D.C. tryout was sung gorgeously by Davis Gaines, Irene Malloy and the entire cast. Yes, it needed work but was a million times better than the unwatchable London production. NEVER let Hal Prince go!!' Would be a beautiful recording!"
Frankly, I liked things about both versions of the show, but I do miss a lot of the orchestrations of the D.C. original. They had a folksy, Cajun feel that, while it was never totally authentic (and how could it be?), felt more truthful to the story than the straight-up rock of some of the London arrangements. I've always wanted to do a production with orchestrations that struck a balance between the folksy/Cajun feel for the townspeople, Boone, and the kids, the rock for young rebels-without-a-clue Candy and Amos (and Swallow, gradually, as she becomes more rebellious), and the overdramatic Steinman/Webber hybrid pop arias for The Man.
Ultimately, however, I feel the book and score material itself, divorced from any particular orchestration or arrangement, was at its best in the London version that is currently licensed (barring some little omissions that I would restore).
Updated On: 8/14/15 at 05:32 PM
Posted: 8/14/15 at 5:42pm
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Posted: 8/14/15 at 7:16pm
I think I had heard on the board that a studio cast album of Rosewater was being done. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Posted: 8/14/15 at 8:48pm
Regarding Mr. Rosewater, I know the York Theatre did it as part of its Mufti concert series some time ago. I don't recall if they recorded an album for the production, but they may very well have.
It was also the York that recorded the aforementioned Body Beautiful CD.
Posted: 8/14/15 at 9:02pm
I'm still bummed FOUND was never recorded.
Posted: 8/14/15 at 9:08pm
I definitely would have loved a Broadway cast recording of Dracula even if I'm the only one who would have bought it. I like Doug Besterman's orchestrations better than the licensed orchestrations, though there isn't an English language recording of the licensed orchestrations either.
I echo the previous comments regarding a Scarlet Pimpernel recording with the licensed orchestrations and song stack. They made so many changes that you can't really use any of the existing English language recordings for reference. I'd love a studio recording that preserved the new versions of "You are My Home" and the fun dance music in "The Creation of Man" and all the other fun changes they made. It's a shame that they only recorded a few tracks with Rachel York and Rex Smith instead of just heading back into the studio and preserving all of the changes.
Posted: 8/14/15 at 9:25pm
The first that comes to mind is Billy Porter's "Being Alive", which was a Sondheim revue with an entirely African American cast. The music was rearranged to meld Sondheim and Gospel. - Incredible!!!
