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#1

Which 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)
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#5

Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?

Posted: 5/25/12 at 6:49am

As 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.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#7

Which 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?

#9

Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?

Posted: 5/25/12 at 9:00am

ANYA
PASSION
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#10

Which 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
#11

Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?

Posted: 5/25/12 at 9:11am

I 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"
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#14

Which 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!.
....but the world goes 'round
#17

Which 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.
#19

Which 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.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#20

Which 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.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#21

Which 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

#23

Which 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

#25

Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?

Posted: 5/27/12 at 1:49pm

Lots 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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