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#76

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/25/17 at 12:11pm

ljay889 said: "As I predicted with Women on the Verge, I believe this score will grow on listeners with the advantage of listening to the cast recording. It's an intricate score with unfamiliar yet rewarding melodies. The majority of the lyrics are smartly crafted, and the orchestrations are lovely. I hear an amalgamation of Cy Coleman and Sondheim influences in the score, several of the upbeat "jazzy" numbers remind me of City of Angels."

I didn't read what you originally predicted for Women on the Verge BUT I saw the show and thought "What a mess" and almost left at intermission but for some reason I still bought the music. It is one of the best records I like to listen to.

So when when I listen to a show that I've never seen but like the music and the show bombed, I think of Women on the Verge.

#77

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/25/17 at 12:14pm

Sounds great! Ebersole used a bit more chest voice in the theater...but I'll still be replaying it all day.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#79

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/25/17 at 6:25pm

Due to timezone differences I've listened to the whole recording - it's a great recording. To my ears the orchestrations sound sublime (have they been expanded?) and we do seem to be moving further and further away from the years between 2004-2010 (approx). where cast recordings sounded so flat and sterile.

I don't know if it will win any new fans, but there are definitely a bunch of great songs in my opinion that will make for some repeat listening: "Behind the Red Door", "Back on Top", "If I'd Been a Man", "Face to Face", :"Now you Know", "Pink", "Forever Beautiful" and "Beauty in the World" (in particular). That's quite a lot! I've said this before but Grey Gardens, while might having higher highs - actually has a similar problem to War Paint in the sense that there are a bunch of throw away songs and only a collection of great ones. I suppose I'm leading to making a claim that I actually don't think the Grey Gardens score is that much better than War Paint if we start 'counting' all the good songs in each. Or rather, I should say as a whole I almost like War Paint as much as Grey Gardens.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

Updated On: 5/25/17 at 06:25 PM

#80

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/25/17 at 11:21pm

Available now on iTunes - just downloaded and am currently listening. It sounds GORGEOUS.

"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
#81

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 1:13am

Sally Durant Plummer said: "Available now on iTunes - just downloaded and am currently listening. It sounds GORGEOUS.



"yes it does...rich orchestrations. Listening now on Spotify.

"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George
#82

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 2:03am

how does a song like A Woman's Face get removed but Dinosaurs doesn't?? i much preferred the original Chicago opening. enjoying the recording so far!

"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#83

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 9:38am

I have to agree this album sounds amazing, but A Woman's Face is a much better song. I know they wanted to save the entrances for Patti and Christine separately. I just think they could have had the female ensemble sing it without Patti and Christine. It was a very catchy melody that set the tone of the show.

#84

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 9:51am

As I predicted with Women on the Verge, I believe this score will grow on listeners with the advantage of listening to the cast recording. It's an intricate score with unfamiliar yet rewarding melodies.

When I saw Women on the Verge, I was immediately taken with the score. I actually had a couple of the melodies stuck in my head for weeks and I also really enjoyed the show. When I saw War Paint, Pink was the only memorable number and I only remember what some of the other songs were about, but what did strike me at the time was how similar and generic most of the music was. Women on the Verge had me jonesing for a cast recording. War Paint doesn't. I'm curious to hear the recording to see if I feel I can enjoy the score more out of context than I did within the show, which I found tedious and flat. But then, I haven't found their previous scores to be much more than...pleasant. Like Pasek & Paul, I find the music pleasant, but not really remarkable and I usually can't recall a single tune or they don't inspire repetitive listenings. The reason I mostly remember the song Pink is purely from Ebersole singing the lyric again and again "PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK...PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINK..." That's it. That's all I recall from the song.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#85

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 9:54am

When did they cut the song that Arden sings about her husband? I thought it was cute. Also Patti and Christine are doing some amazing vocal work.

#86

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 9:57am

With that comparison I meant this score will grow on listeners with the advantage of the cast recording, like Verge. Verge is much catchier score, I wasn't comparing the two sounds.

#88

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 11:17am

Well, the orchestra sounds lovely and both women are definitely at peak vocal performance, but boy, what a dud of a score. I thought maybe it'd leave a better impression after seeing it and being disappointed. Alas. A couple nice melodies and songs, but the lyrics are so clunky and the melodrama of it isn't much fun.

#89

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 12:12pm

Patti, Christine & the score sound exquisite. If Bette wasn't such a sure bet this year, I'd love to see which of these two could take the Tony.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#90

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 12:59pm

I would love to see a Patti upset & take the award from lazy, limp Bette, whose singing & acting are--to put it politely--wan by comparison.

#91

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 1:01pm

These are the best orchestrations that I've heard on a cast recording in years; I downloaded from iTunes, so there are no liner notes, but I assume that there are extra personnel added for the recording?

I mean, I enjoyed the orchestrations in the theatre, but they sound more full on the recording.

#93

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 2:42pm

Yeah the score can be a bit clunky. I find it to be Frankel and Korie's weakest score, but I still enjoy it more than Come From Away and even parts of Groundhog Day. I'm a bit puzzled as to why the show seems to be played as camp. I just think that, that was a poor choice. The men's roles should be greatly reduced and their songs removed. As bad as they were in the theatre, they are even worse on the recording. Patti sounds so youthful, even if her accent and the wordy lyrics sometimes get the best of her, and Christine sounds lovely, as usual.

The orchestrations are phenomenal on this recording. They were great in the theatre, but it sounds as if they have been fleshed out and expanded for the album. The only problem that I have with the orchestrations is that completely historically inappropriate synth at the beginning of Step on Out. It's a bit jarring.

I love Ghostlight's albums because they are always wonderfully theatrical and they always sound so warm and lush.

#95

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 7:09pm

Dinosaurs is pretty terrible, but it's still a better song than Welcome to the Rock................

Honestly at least Dinosaurs is a pretty entertaining song, even if we aren't necessarily laughing with the entertainers, Come From Away literally sounds and looks like an SNL skit about musical theatre (especially with that choreography).

#96

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 7:18pm

I'm not a fan of the music of Dinosaurs but it does have a clear dramatic purpose. Do we think even the message is a bit too heavy-handed? (Trying to understand if the criticism is about the message or execution, or both). The idea that they are from another era/haven't caught up with the times is a pretty clear theme with or without the song.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

Updated On: 5/26/17 at 07:18 PM

#100

WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording

Posted: 5/26/17 at 10:25pm

There are two great songs on this album: Face to Face and Forever Beautiful. Pink is really overrated, Dinosaurs is a little annoying but inoffensive and the rest is pretty forgettable.

Those two songs and Patti's great zingers will be my only real lasting memories from this show.

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