What music is everybody listening to now ?

[Victoria Grant]

Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:07pm

I am currently listening to :

Side by Side by Sondheim!-1976

[jrb_actor]

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!

[Amneris]

Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:08pm

Little Shop Of Horrors movie soundtrack.. gets me energized when i go walking.

[Auggie27]

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.

Updated On: 11/2/03 at 10:29 PM

[Kitzarina]

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?

[King Stevos]

Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:47pm

Im listening to Secret Garden right now.

STEVOS

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:50pm

umm... Phil Collins...while I work on my next article for Bd'w world.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:51pm

Bon Jovi: BOUNCE.

[CJR]

Posted: 11/2/03 at 10:59pm

Donna Summer -- On The Radio (the album, not the song)

[Rob]

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.

[jo]

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

[newyorkuniq]

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

[DavidMegg]

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

[MusicMan]

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."

[StinKer Roadmann]

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

[Seany]

Posted: 11/2/03 at 11:34pm

Chess

[DisneyCastMember]

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.

[broadway geek]

Posted: 11/3/03 at 7:40am

The new lSOH, and Linda Eder "Broadway My Way"

[TheaterBaby]

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".

[Auggie27]

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.

Updated On: 11/3/03 at 07:59 AM

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 11/3/03 at 8:29am

The New Broadway Cast Recording of Little Shop of Horrors, Tick, Tick...BOOM!, and RENT CD 2.

[sharon1]

Posted: 11/3/03 at 10:52am

Michel Ball's A Love Story

[robyn525600]

Posted: 11/3/03 at 10:57am

Clay Aikens new cd (which is fabulous).

Posted: 11/3/03 at 11:26am

COMPANY in Jazz, The Terry Trotter Trio.

Yours for a jazzy Broadway!

[MusicMan]

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.