Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

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Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 5:22pm

in your opinion, which is better? im looking at both on iTunes.

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Updated On: 1/26/06 at 05:22 PM

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 5:28pm

They are completely different (songs). Personally, my favorite is the soundtrack

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re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 6:03pm

i <3 my OBCR,i don't think i've ever heard the other two (that's assuming the OCR is something different than the OBCR...)

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 6:04pm

Soundtrack is the original, I prefer that.

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re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 6:09pm

They are two different entities. Get them both.

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 6:10pm

RENThead-yes, i believe they are the same. i just didnt say broadway b/c amazon.com says "american cast recording" so i didnt know if it was off broadway, touring, or what.

thanks for the opinions!

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re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 6:21pm

i have nearly all the cast recoordings for FAME and the american touring cast is the best.

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 7:52pm

Yes, FAME was never on Broadway. The OCR was of the American tour company.

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re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 8:04pm

thanks for clearing that up!

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#10

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 8:27pm

Movie soundtrack is better in my opinion.

#11

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 11:16pm

Matty said it right.
I have the movie soundtrack, the original North American touring cast, the original London cast, and even the original German cast! The North American touring cast is full of heart, and incredible.

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#12

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/26/06 at 11:39pm

get the original cast, its better music imo. However there are 2 recordings of this music but if you can get the one with gavin creel you should cuz i think its great.

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#13

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 2:39am

Yeah, it's cute that the Fame OCR has both Gavin Creel and Jenn Gambatese from their slightly younger days. I mean I wouldn't say it's a great cast recording, I played the show in 10th grade that's why I have it, but there's some good stuff in there.

Here's an interesting question...one song from that CD has been cited as perhaps one of the worst songs ever written for musical theatre...any guesses to which it is?

#14

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 2:50am

"I Can't Keep It Down"?

#15

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 4:36am

im gonna say think of Meryl Streep.

#16

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 6:39am

Definitely the movie, it is so much better than the musical, which isn't the movie at all. Gotta love "I Sing the Body Electric."

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#17

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 7:23am

The original London cast has the best orchestrations.. much richer than the more tinny American one.

Fame has one of my favourite musical songs in - In LA. Incredibly powerful, even when I saw the show for the fifth/sixth time it brought tears to my eyes. And I Can't Keep It Down is very funny, and I hate people who find it offensive or shocking, it's just good fun.

#18

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 7:25am

"Body Electric" is such a great song! When I did the show, we added that to the end of the first act, lots of fun. Very powerful song. "Hot Lunch" from the soundtrack is also a lot of fun.

#19

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 8:27am

I have always been of the opinion that the OCR makes the Baby Jesus Cry.

#20

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:22am

I saw the North American touring cast at their first performance... yeah when Gavin Creel and Jenn Gambatese were both mere tykes

And there was something truly electric about all the actors and the material then... By the time we got Fame on 42nd Street, the script had been changed so much (and not for the better) and the magic was just... done and gone. It IS a banal "high school" show, but the NATC conveys this with heart and charm, in my opinion...

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#21

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 10:35am

The movie soundtrack is great. Only get the cast recordings if they are free. Terrible score of a show that shames the film on which it is based.

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#22

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 3:23pm

Good job Matty, indeed it was "Think of Meryl Streep." As it was being discussed, it was said to be a song of Serena's and my first thought was aww sure "Let's Play A Love Scene" isn't the greatest song, but it's cute, I wouldn't say it's the worst...then when they mentioned Meryl Streep I thought...ohh...well yeah, they do have a point.

I like Can't Keep it Down, it's actually one of my favorites. Though we of course had to cut it from our HS production

And I didn't think there were that many cuts in Fame on 42nd Street, as playing the show I knew most of the words from when I wasn't playing by heart. I think some of it was the sets and cast. IMO Carmen was awful. Way too overacted. Serena was cute..I mean the show isn't that great to begin with I suppose, and that production didn't do it any justice.

#23

re: Which Fame CD - Movie or OCR??

Posted: 1/27/06 at 4:16pm

get the movie.

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