#1
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:07pm
I am currently listening to :
Side by Side by Sondheim!-1976
Side by Side by Sondheim!-1976
What music is everybody listening to now ?
#2
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:08pm
Ave Q, Zanna Don't, LSOH, Wig in a Box--and I usually don't listen to musicals lol!
#3
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:08pm
Little Shop Of Horrors movie soundtrack.. gets me energized when i go walking.
#4
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:29pm
The Papermill Playhouse "complete" FOLLIES. The Anne Miller "I'm Still Here" is still the most show-biz reflective and emotional since Yvonne de Carlo's original. (And gets to sing "...Foxtrot" on the bonus tracks). And brava to Donna McKecknies's simple, earnest Sally. So moving, and one of the (few) times I've agreed with Brantley. One thing noticed: the Follies songs written for Phyllis: "Downtown," "Lucy and Jesse" and "Ah, but Underneath" are basically the same song--each one is brilliant, and oddly enough, interchangeable: they all work.
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Updated On: 11/2/03 at 10:29 PM
#5
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:45pm
I can't seem to stop listening to the New Broadway Cast Recording of "Little Shop of Horrors." It's just sooo good! But when I'm not listening to that, I've been playing a lot of "Hairspray" and "Bat Boy." Hmmm...maybe I'm just having a Kerry Butler sort of week?
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#6
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:47pm
Im listening to Secret Garden right now.
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#7
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:50pm
umm... Phil Collins...while I work on my next article for Bd'w world.
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#8
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:51pm
Bon Jovi: BOUNCE.
#9
Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:59pm
Donna Summer -- On The Radio (the album, not the song)
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#10
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:05pm
Neil Diamond's (no relation) Stages along with the new Little Shop recording, and Streisand's new movie album. It's been an eclectic week. 
#11
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:13pm
*Michael Ball's new album - A LOVE STORY
*Anthony Warlow's new album - FACE THE MUSIC
Beautiful music !
Jo
*Anthony Warlow's new album - FACE THE MUSIC
Beautiful music !
Jo
#12
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:13pm
Jekyll and Hyde, Side Show, Barbra in Concert and Madonna. But right now I am watching The Matrix:P
#13
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:22pm
Lauren Kennedy's Jason Robert Brown CD and Harry Chapin.
Man, that guy could tell a story through song!!
-david
Man, that guy could tell a story through song!!
-david
#14
Old, flop musicals: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Fade-Out, Fade-In
The Happiest Girl in the World
Auggie27, Ann Miller is fine as is Yvonne but both pale in comparison to the Nancy Walker rendition on the Sondheim tribute recording. Transcendent. Also, sorry, but McKechnie didn't register in the Sally Durant role---not enough neurosis beneath the suburban surface. It required a stronger subtext than what Ms. M. could provide. And surely you know that DOWNTOWN, LUCY AND JESSIE, and AH, BUT UNDERNEATH! were all written for the same slot in the Follies sequence--hence the fact that they are all the "same song."
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:31pm
Old, flop musicals: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!
Fade-Out, Fade-In
The Happiest Girl in the World
Auggie27, Ann Miller is fine as is Yvonne but both pale in comparison to the Nancy Walker rendition on the Sondheim tribute recording. Transcendent. Also, sorry, but McKechnie didn't register in the Sally Durant role---not enough neurosis beneath the suburban surface. It required a stronger subtext than what Ms. M. could provide. And surely you know that DOWNTOWN, LUCY AND JESSIE, and AH, BUT UNDERNEATH! were all written for the same slot in the Follies sequence--hence the fact that they are all the "same song."
#15
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:33pm
Christmas music! LoL I know it's early, but I was thumbing through my cd's and I came across an unmarked one that I had burned...so I put it in to see what it was and had a good time 
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#16
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:34pm
Chess
There's a light in the darkness of everybody's life.
#17
Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:55pm
I've been listening to On Broadway on XM Satellite radio all evening. Forget the CD's and changing and keeping cases off the table. Just turn the radio on and listen.
#19
Posted: 11/3/03 at 7:51am
In my car (because I'm too cheap to get a cd player installed) lol I've been listening to some tapes I made with all different Broadway songs on them, and at home I've been listening to: Kristen Chenoweth "Let Yourself Go", "Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein", "Bette Midler Sings Rosemary Clooney", and Barbra Streisand "The Movie Album".
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#20
Posted: 11/3/03 at 7:59am
Music Man: Yep, Nancy Walker is hard to beat. Forgot it. (I aso love "We're Gonna Be All Right" on that recording.) As for the Phyllis slot in the Follies sequence, you're right, of course I know it's the same place/must serve same purpose. My only point was, Sondheim kept rewriting while basically coming up with the same number. The vamps are the same, the music is a variation, and then there's intricate word play about some polarity (and yes, I know, an explication of the duality within Phyllis):, up/down town, two mutually envious women, hidden personality under a public personna. I guess I thought that was somewhat unique as a rewrite issue, the same methaphor/motif re-tooled and re-explored 3 complete times. I personally prefer Lucy and Jesse,though not with Hoty.
Sondheim rewrites always intrigue. He kept diddling with "Last Midnight," in INTO THE WOODS, and the number never really worked very well,did it? I remember the earliest version on B'way, called "Boom Squish," or "Boom Crunch." It was the witch's big exit, but didn't engender much emotion. You'll probably write back and say "of course it did! You missed the whole pt!" and explain it as one of your favorite Sondheim moments. I hope so. I enjoy your strong ideas and preferences, by the way. Bring 'em on.
Sondheim rewrites always intrigue. He kept diddling with "Last Midnight," in INTO THE WOODS, and the number never really worked very well,did it? I remember the earliest version on B'way, called "Boom Squish," or "Boom Crunch." It was the witch's big exit, but didn't engender much emotion. You'll probably write back and say "of course it did! You missed the whole pt!" and explain it as one of your favorite Sondheim moments. I hope so. I enjoy your strong ideas and preferences, by the way. Bring 'em on.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Updated On: 11/3/03 at 07:59 AM
#21
Posted: 11/3/03 at 8:29am
The New Broadway Cast Recording of Little Shop of Horrors, Tick, Tick...BOOM!, and RENT CD 2.
CCM '10!
#22
Posted: 11/3/03 at 10:52am
Michel Ball's A Love Story
#23
Posted: 11/3/03 at 10:57am
Clay Aikens new cd (which is fabulous).
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away."
#24
Posted: 11/3/03 at 11:26am
COMPANY in Jazz, The Terry Trotter Trio.
Yours for a jazzy Broadway!
Yours for a jazzy Broadway!
#25
Nah, Auggie, Into the Woods has never done anything for me. I prefer Sondheim's middle period (Company through Sweeney Todd). Those are the shows for which he will be remembered.
Posted: 11/3/03 at 11:58am
Nah, Auggie, Into the Woods has never done anything for me. I prefer Sondheim's middle period (Company through Sweeney Todd). Those are the shows for which he will be remembered.
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