Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
#1Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 1:31am
The other thread got me thinking about cast recordings and about how some of them I can listen to again and again, but then there are those I could barely get through the first time. What are yours? my list of these include...
Newsies
Catch Me If You Can
Follies OBCR (NOT the new cast recording which I LOVE - the quality of the OBCR is just awful)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Baby It's You
My Fair Lady (I just don't like this show in general)
The Lion King
Grease (the most recent revival)
#2Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 1:47am
Jekyll and Hyde
Once Upon a Mattress
Chess
Miss Saigon
Sister Act
The Wedding Singer
the Wild Party (both versions)
Jay94
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/11
#2Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 1:58am
The Will Rogers Follies (besides Willimania)
Into the Woods
Most Andrew Lloyd Webber
West Side Story (not that I don't like it, I just know the songs already so well)
#3Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 4:15am
Cats
Oklahoma
Shrek
Spring Awakening(Something about Lea Michele's voice gets to me)
Godspell
Little Women
#4Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 6:49amAs much as I loved seeing GREY GARDENS and especially Mary Louise Wilson, I have only listened to the cast album once. I really can't explain why.
#5Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 7:54amAdding Machine
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#6Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 8:20am
There are some, probably too many (I'm afraid to count), that I could never bring myself to play even once. The prospect was too forbidding. Why play Hello, Again or Passion even once when you could play Kiss Me, Kate and My Fair Lady for the ten thousandth time and still get as much pleasure as the first?
Brian07663NJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#7Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 8:35am
Spring Awakening
Silence the Musical
Urinetown
#8Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 9:00am
ANYA
PASSION
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#9Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 9:05am
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (original cast recording. i'm fine with listening to the revival recording)
- Love Never Dies
- Baby It's You
- Wonderland
- The Little Mermaid
#10Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 9:11amI will listen to most of my shows in pits and pieces but I will say that the only show I actually listened to once and then I put it away.. and have not even listened to since is "Which Witch"
#11Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 9:34am
Fanny
Plain and Fancy
OBC of Finians Rainbow
round2
Featured Actor Joined: 4/11/08
#12Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 10:31am
Hard Job Being God
Here's Love
Cats
#13Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 10:31am
Oh yea...Which Witch. Hate it.
But I think was expecting more of a 80s type sung through style show and as I recall it was more of an ersatz opera.
Also forgot Silence!.
#14Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 10:54am
The Color Purple
The Light in the Piazza
Personals
Into the Woods (Original London Cast)
Camelot
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#15Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 11:11am
Memphis
Once
Cats
(haiku?)
#16Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 11:15am
This is an easy one for me: The Life
I hate this album. But I can't get rid of it because I like the foot on thefront cover. LOL, I dont have a foot fetish, I just think the cover is interesting.
I hate how the show begins with "Check it out, check it out, check it out!" Bleh, no thanks.
#18Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 11:26am
Avenue Q
Spelling Bee
Spring Awakening
Funny, 'cuz I ended up seeing them 2, 11, and 5 times. I just don't like the cast recordings.
#19Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 11:31am
Pacific Overtures: Revival recording.
What a remarkably disappointing recording of a score I really like.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#20Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 12:20pm
I can listen to individual songs, but I cannot listen to the recording of Mamma Mia all the way through. Such bad acting, and the Sophie has an odd voice. I would get the one for the movie, but then there's Pierce...
Updated On: 5/25/12 at 12:20 PM
sephyr
Leading Actor Joined: 11/21/10
#21Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/25/12 at 12:21pm
Children of Eden
Marie Christine
They just don't grab my attention that much...
#22Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/27/12 at 12:38pm
First one that comes to my mind: LOVE NEVER DIES. (My copy was free, but still resent the time lost listening to it.)
Another that still gives me shudders is SUNSET BLVD. The OLC was bad enough but at least Lupone could sing it. Then we get Ms.Close pouring her "chesty" belt all over a score obviously not intended to be sung by a non-singer. These discs are still part of my collection but rarely pulled off the CD shelf.
Then there are the revivals recorded by producers hoping to make a quick buck (as if such a thing is even possible in today's cast album market) when the originals are still in print and showing no signs of losing sales steam. It is rare that a revival cast album completely eclipses the original. So also on my CD shelf are revival recordings of MY FAIR LADY (1976 B'way and 2001 London) that are never played.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#23Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/27/12 at 1:24pmI listened to the 9 to 5 recording, put it away, and have yet to take it out again since.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#24Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?
Posted: 5/27/12 at 1:49pmLots of revivals sit sad upon the shelf ... the worst were the Broadway version of "Charlie Brown" with those hideous new songs and orchestrations, and "Once Upon a Mattress" with the underpowered SJP. Just awful.
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