Which cast recordings could you only listen to once?- Page 2

[06s091]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 3:33pm

Les Mis OBC (mostly because of David Bryant as Marius)

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 4:16pm

Anna Karenina
Bed and Sofa
Bright Lights, Big City
High Fidelity
Kean
Kelly
Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway Cast)
Memphis
Music Man (Broadway Revival with Bierko and Luker)
My Life with Albertine
The Robber Bridegroom (Love Sleepy Man, but go to other recordings for this 1)
The Woman in White (actually, never made it all the way through)

Updated On: 5/27/12 at 04:16 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 4:27pm

Jekyll and Hyde

Coco (has there ever been worse sound quality on an obc?)

Miss Saigon

Jimmy

Light in the Piazza

Cats

Catch My Soul

Bright Lights, Big City

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 4:38pm

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

PRETTYBELLE

PACIFIC OVERTURES

LOVE NEVER DIES

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 5:01pm

I listened to one side each of CATS and MISS SAIGON. Never turned the LPs over.

[MCfan2]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 5:08pm

Concept album for Jerry Herman's "Miss Spectacular"
"The Jackal" (from an Australian musical adaptation of "Tale of Two Cities")

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 5/27/12 at 8:11pm

As much as I loved "Xanadu" (saw it four times, all onstage), that cast album was so poorly produced and done that once or twice was enough. Such a disappointment.

Probably stretching the rules a bit, but I couldn't even finish the Royal Albert Hall "Chess" concert. Idina Menzel completely killed it for me. It sits in a drawer, second disc still unplayed to this day.

[undercoveractor]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 4:29am

The Gospel at Colonus....in fact I don't think I ever got all the way through it. Yikes.

[undercoveractor]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 4:30am

The Gospel at Colonus....in fact I don't think I ever got all the way through it. Yikes.

[HopeChanged]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 8:12am

As much as I love Will Chase's voice and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal, I had zero desire to listen more than once to High Fidelity.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 10:36am

Which Witch
Goblin Market
John and Jen
Pacific 1860
No For An Answer
Three Wishes For Jamie
Top Banana
Hannah 1939
....and many more.

[Salene]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 10:39am

Still haven't made it through Spring Awakening - but seen and enjoyed two productions.

[HumATune]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 11:06am

Ghost
A Chorus Line 2006 Broadway Revival Cast

[sklabam]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 12:08pm

And barely once:

Titanic
J&H
B&C
Catch Me If You Can
Wonderland (see a theme of awful with FW scores)
Newsies (sorry, but Ashman was the dynamic part of that duo and since then, nothing great)

[bk]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 2:00pm

I'd be curious what the OP means re the original Follies having bad quality. Specifically why.

[ajh]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 2:27pm

SPELLING BEE - not William Finn's finest hour imho
WEST SIDE STORY-NEW B'WAY CAST - nothing actually wrong with it but just not particularly essential or outstanding, apart from the Spanish lyrics
TITANIC - yawn
LOVE NEVER DIES - yawn again
THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE - this is actually a beautiful recording; it's just not a very stimulating score

[GatorNY]

Posted: 5/28/12 at 3:38pm

SHREK
AVENUE Q
THE PRODUCERS

[tazber]

Posted: 5/29/12 at 4:33pm

Oh I forgot BOMBAY DREAMS.

I don't like Bollywood music.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/29/12 at 6:07pm

My Life With Albertine
Adding Machine
Addams Family
Baby It's You
Silence!
Evil Dead
Toxic Avenger
People in the Picture
Imagine This
Young Frankenstein
Behind the Iron Mask
Crime of Passion
Fela!

Loads of flops from the 50s, 60s and 70s

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/29/12 at 9:03pm

Whistle Down The Wind is a terrible recording, although the material isn't that much better.

[philly03]

Posted: 5/29/12 at 9:39pm

Anna Karenina (recording w/ Melissa Errico in the title role, a few years ago)
High Society
Love Never Dies
Zorro (London Cast)
Good Ol' Girls (except for a few Lauren Kennedy tracks who sounds great)
Updated On: 5/29/12 at 09:39 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 5/30/12 at 7:41am

The concept album of Whistle Down The Wind is actually quite good.

I agree the OCR sucks though.

[once a month]

Posted: 5/30/12 at 8:54am

A Catered Affair
Spiderman...well, not even once all the way through
Woman in White
By Jeeves
The Story of My Life
A Class Act
Warhorse
Catch Me if You Can
9 to 5
Fosse
Oh, Calcutta!
The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall
Nefertiti
Goya
42nd Street revival
Jersey Boys
Mary Poppins
LoveMusik
Fame Becomes Me
Tarzan
At Liberty
Jane Eyre
Big
The Goodbye Girl
Madwoman of Central Park West

Updated On: 5/30/12 at 08:54 AM

[artscallion]

Posted: 5/30/12 at 9:07am

Company (1995 revival)
Pacific Overtures (revival)
Into the Woods (revival)

I probably wouldn't listen to lots of the bad shows others have listed here more than once. But fortunately, knowing they were bad shows, I never bought the recordings in the first place, and haven't had to listen to them at all!

[ZoeTheGoat]

Posted: 5/30/12 at 12:31pm

Lysistrata Jones
42nd Street
Leap of Faith - Saw the show, the music was blahhhhh