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#1

Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 5:14am

Hi Guys, I'm currently deciding on my next OCR to purchase, and would like a little advise on which one to buy next. I like a vast range of musicals from Rent to Passion. I have narrowed the choices down to:

The Light in the Piazza
Little Women
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Avenue Q

Help! Which one should I opt for?
#2

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 5:35am

I'll post in order of preference:

1) AVENUE Q
2) DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
3) THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
4) LITTLE WOMEN
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#3

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 6:14am

my thoughts are below...


1) Piazza
2) Q
3) Little Women
4) DRS
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending. The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
#5

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 9:22am

I would say out of those four go with Q, and YES, bwayondabrain, it is worth getting the Sweet Charity CD, if only to hear Denis croon out the title song. Yum.
#6

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 10:11am

I've just been on the Avenue Q website, and although the music sounds fun and catchy. I'm not impressed by the staging of the show, does it not get quite annoying after a while, having all those puppets prancing about the stage with people behind them? I think I am going to go with Piazza. I hope the show comes to London, it looks sumptuos and delightful.
#8

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 11:25am

1. Piazza
2. DRS
3. Q
4. LW

Piazza is just amazing and incredibly beautiful. DRS is so much fun, and I personally listen to it more than Q. Also, i recommend waiting to buy Q until you have seen the show, I regret knowing most of the music coming into the show. IMO, LW just isn't that good, the music doesn't do anything special for me, and espeially compared to the other three OCRs you are thinking about, it is a waste.
Whatever happened to class?
#9

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 11:36am

1. Piazza
2. Dirty ROtten Scoundrels
3. Ave Q
4. Little Women

The top 3 have had a lot of play from me, but number 4 I saw once and played once, and now it sits on the shelf. Foster was much better live than she is on disc. THe first 3 are must haves for any collection.

To defend Q; I personally think it is one of the most playable cast recordings of the last 10 years.

Updated On: 9/4/05 at 11:36 AM

#11

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 12:19pm

I'd say:

1. Piazza
2. Q
3. DRS
4. Little Women
-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?

"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????
#13

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 3:55pm

go with light in the piazza!
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree" ~Related~
#14

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 4:01pm

I agree with ElphabaRose about waiting to buy Q until you see it...a lot of what is so funny about the show is revealed on the cast album...I listened to the music before I saw the show, and have to say...it wasn't as enjoyable as it would have been going in blind...

GO with Piazza! So beautiful, and only gets better upon multiple listenings!
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. ~Leonard Bernstein~
#15

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 4:04pm

Thanks guys. It seems Piazza was the clear afvourite, so I've ordered it off Amazon. (although I must confess I also ordered Little Women, only because it is my favourite novel and I love Sutton). Once again thanks for all your advice. I can't wait for my Piazza recording to arrive. I just hope the show makes it to the UK and they give Victoria Clark's role to the amazingly talented Joanna Riding.
#18

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 4:11pm

1. The Light in the Piazza


Other:
DRS
Little Women
Avenue Q

I actually have all of these OBC recordings, and I definitely listen to Piazza the most. I love Piazza, and it's definitely a recording that you need in your Broadway collection.
--korenglish
#20

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 4:59pm

1. The Light in the Piazza
2. Little Women
3. DRS
4. Q
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
#23

re: Which OCR? - A little help from my friends!

Posted: 9/4/05 at 6:33pm

Buy Piazza
NIL MAGNUM NISI BONUM "No greatness without goodness."

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