The Story of My Life- now on iTunes...

[BenKaye]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 11:51pm

....and it sounds AMAZING!!!

I'm so happy this amazing score was recorded for future generations!!

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 11:53pm

yay! just downloaded it. so happy to have this! sound really good.

[noahrp3]

Posted: 5/19/09 at 12:33am

When I pull it up, there's only a few songs available for purchase. Do I have to buy the whole album to get all the songs? Right now its only showing tracks 2,4,5,10,12,14,16,17...

Posted: 5/19/09 at 12:53am

Yeah, noahrp3, I'm seeing the same thing...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/19/09 at 4:38am

They're all available for me. It's also a dollar cheaper on Amazon's digital download. Still not cheap enough for me to buy now and get the actual CD in two weeks. I really need to stop doing that.

[johng428]

Posted: 5/19/09 at 5:16am

I ordered the CD through the PS Classics website last week and was surprised when it arrived yesterday. I have only listened to the first half of it, but have really enjoyed it. It was smart to record it and ensure more productions will occur in the future.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/19/09 at 7:44pm

I hate that they cut "The Marvelous Magical Modular Miracle Maker". That was one of my favorite songs from the demo.

Posted: 5/20/09 at 2:17am

Bought it today. It sounds FANTASTIC!

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 2:26am

Is the whole thing really worth it? Any particular tracks that are truly worth buying?

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 5/20/09 at 4:01am

The Butterfly is a great song, so if you only get one, get that.

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 12:17am

I downloaded it from iTunes.
Beautiful, beautiful songs! Glad they recorded it.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 3:28am

My copy came last Friday (I'll be featuring selections from it on my program this Sunday - May 31 - as well as tracks from Malcom Gets and Stephanie J. Block's new CD's.)

The score is as strong as I remembered it from the Toronto premiere.

If you are a fan of scores that delve into character and are rich in emotional textures this is a score you will love. There is a detailed synopsis in the booklet but the songs (and dialogue) on the discs tell the whole story.

Malcolm Gets is a superb Alvin, but the real revelation hjere is Will Chase as the troubled author Thomas. (I confess a fondness for Brent Carver's Alvin in Toronto, but then I didn't get to see STORY OF MY LIFE in New York, and perhaps if I had I would have enjoyed Gets' performance just as much. No perhaps. I am sure of it.) Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations are deliciously spare. This is an intimate 2-character show that I suspect will soon be done in regional theatres and on University campus stages. Many of the songs will become standard audition material.

Take note that this is not the first score by Neil Bartram (and his bookwriting partner Brian Hill) and it certainly won't be their last. These are two immensely talented writers, and anyone who cares about the future of the lyric theatre will be well advised to watch and listen to what they come up with next.

There were some that said that STORY OF MY LIFE belonged in an off-Broadway house - that it was too small a show for Broadway. No - Broadway was to small for this show. But we have the cast album and that will assure a future life for this piece.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 5/27/09 at 3:33am

I listened to it from start to finish and while it may have been beautiful, only I can only remember one song in particular: Angels In The Snow. Otherwise, it was slightly unmemorable, but, Will Chase is still superb. I love his voice.

[Sheila2]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 7:20pm

Updated On: 12/6/09 at 07:20 PM

[romgitsean]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 3:44pm

What is the DEAL with this show? Why didn't it do well? One performance? That's worse than the original production of Carrie.

[lstbutifulgrl2]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 4:47pm

i had the demo, but my computer crashed and i lost it... hmmmm. let me see if i had it backed up on my external.

as for why it didn't do well? it was flawed, personally i loved it, but it wasn't perfect. the word of mouth seemed really positive, but the critics did not agree.

[Sheila2]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 4:47pm

BTW, I have an audio of TSOML's Houston production (my master), in case you're interested:)

It had 20-sth performances (including previews).
I guess there's not much of it to be acted out and two characters are too little for the whole space of a normal theater. I love the show and enjoying listening to it. Still I hope it lasted longer.


Updated On: 12/6/09 at 04:47 PM

[lstbutifulgrl2]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 6:26pm

i would LOVE that audio.

i saw the show several times, both in CT and on Broadway, something about it just caught me.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:08pm

What do you think were the flaws with this show?

I didn't get to see it on Broadway but I was at the premiere when it opened in Toronto in 2006. The only "flaws' was that the show was running about 15 minutes too long at 1 hour 45 min.

I know they have sharpened some lyrics and made some cuts in the interim bringing it down to 90 minutes. What I hear on the CD comes across as everything this story should be. So, I am curious to hear what you (and others) thought the flaws were.

[Gavin Rehfeldt]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 7:53pm

Yes, I'm glad this show was recorded. Wish I could have seen it. Now, what I'd like is what I thought I read the subject of this post was: a cast recording of "In My Life."

[lstbutifulgrl2]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 10:26pm

FRC: there were parts that dragged, like Independence Day. It was a good song, but IMO it dragged on too long. Yes, they did tighten it from the Toroto Demos i've heard, and it ran at just about 90 minutes.