Everyday Rapture. Well, specifically, just "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City", "Life Line", and "The Weight". Those three tracks just flow really well together.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Everyday Rapture. Well, specifically, just "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City", "Life Line", and "The Weight". Those three tracks just flow really well together.
I'm totally loving the Everyday Rapture recording and the songs you mentioned. I just wish Strongest Suit had been included. I imagine it's a rights issue with Disney. While Eamon is only in that segment of the show it would have been nice for him to have been included on the cast recording.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
"Omg kad, that mini 4 song cycle at the end about life/death is unbelievable.
That's Enough For Me I Went Fishing With My Dad When The World Stopped Turning Anytime
I also love the combined Sailing/Set Those Sails arrangement."
I LOVE the Sailing/Set Those Sails arrangement. I think the two songs compliment each other perfectly. And the life/death segment is just heartrending. No one writes songs about life and loss like that except William Finn.
I also love the Falsettos sequence- maybe because it's the closest thing to a revival we'll see in a while.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
The Grass Harp OBCR is such a pleasure, and I've been completely obsessed with "Babylove's Miracle Show." I've also been spinning Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Golden Apple frequently. I was playing the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 repeatedly over the weekend. The OBCR of House of Flowers gets near daily playings in my house too. I love Harold Arlen! The lush and lovely OBCR of Saratoga has popped up too recently.
On a William Finn note, I was listening to Elegies last week at work. I have the Madrid cast of Falsettoland on my iPod and it is lovely. Listened to 25th Annual.. and still feel completely underwhelmed by it.
Memphis, Promises, Night Music with Zeta Jones, Funny Girl and Michael Ball's Broadway album.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Not from a Broadway or off Broadway show but I have been listening to "A Tale" from Cirque du Soleil's "La Nouba" constantly for the past 4 weeks. I have also been listening to "O" a lot.
Weird coincidence, I've also been listening "Make Me a Song" all day. "Anytime" is just... wow. It's been a long time since I've heard that song, and it's really wreaking havoc with my emotional state right now. And "I'd Rather Be Sailing / Set Those Sails" represents two of my favorite Finn songs of all time rolled into one amazing piece. I could probably spend the rest of the day just listening to it.
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
Don't tell me not to defy gravity If someone takes a spill, it's Nessa and not me Don't bring around a cloud to kiss me goodbye defying gravity
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
I'm really loving In the Heights and wishing I had seen it last time I was in NYC. I also have to listen to the first five songs from Next to Normal almost everyday.
For me it is Hair, never get sick of listening to it and it makes a smelly subway ride home much more pleasant (and that is not an easy task) Do alternate on occasionally but I am hooked on Hair : )