Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#0Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:02pm
This morning, I was thinking of my favourite recordings and my first reactions to them. I realised that when I first heard some of my favourite shows, I wasn't that excited by them. For example I bought the OCR of Rent but only really decided i liked it after I'd had it for a few months. Compare that to Wicked which I fell in love with the second I first heard The Wizard And I. I just couldn't stop listening to it!
Anyway, the point of this thread is to ask which shows you most wish you could hear for the first time again... Which moment of discovery would you love to experience again? I know this is a bit of an odd enquiry but I was curious...
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#1re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:05pmtick, tick, BOOM! The first time I heard that cd, I was knocked off my feet.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#2re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:15pm
Aah yes. TTB! I was exactly the same!!! I listened to it constantly for an age! My instant favourites are: Evita; Camp (yeah, it's a movie, I know...); Elegies for Angels...; Wicked; Children of Eden; Grease; Songs For A New World; Marie Christine; Zanna, Don't and Aida.
Shows I love now but that I had to warm to are: Joseph; A New Brain; Bat Boy; Rent; LSOH; Hot Mikado; Hairspray; Rocky Horror; Guys and Dolls; Side Show; Parade; Anything Goes; The Last Five Years and Avenue Q.
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#3re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:38pm
I seem to listen to amazing recordings while Im going through a break up.
The last 5 years - Blew my mind. (Was going through a break up at the time). 2 years on, this show/recording still makes me go ga-ga.
A man of No Importance - lovely. (break up) When I first heard this and read the sleeve notes, I cried. Beautiful stuff.
Miss Saigon - This is where it all began. (World cast recording)
Floyd Collins / Myths and Hymns - Took me awhile for both to sink in. Both remain as my top favs.
Falsetto's - If this musical wasn't in my life, I would be lost. (2 break up's) lol
Parade - Remember listening to 'Old red hills' in my car on a rainy day, Thinking 'SH*T, this is good'.
Amour - Reminds me of an ex- girlfriend. Beautiful.
Sunday - A true masterpiece. Shiver everytime I hear 'sunday'.
Of course ...there are some that, no matter how hard I try. I still cant get into...
Zana Dont, Witches of eastwick, Little by little, thou shalt not, Once on this Island, blood brothers.
Updated On: 11/8/04 at 12:38 PM
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Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:41pm
RENT. I remember the first minute I had that cd, I raced through all of the songs to look for "Glory" "What You Own" and "Seasons of Love" because those were the only songs I knew. The first song I heard off of it was "Glory" and I immediately fell in love with it (now I'm obsessed).
Zanna Don't-- the first time I heard it, I was just "wow".
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#5re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:45pmLovin' the Zanna! Love parts of Witches Of Eastwick....Make Him Mine, I Wish I May and Look At Me are fabuloso!
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#6re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:45pm
Aida. That music had me from the first bar. I'll never, ever forget the first time I heard that score. 
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#7re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:49pmEvery Story Is A Love Story (and the segue into Fortune Favours The Brave) is one of the best openings of a show I've ever heard, and when you see it on stage, it's even better! I can remember exactly what I was doing when I first heard it.
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#8re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:50pm
*nods in agreement*
*retreats to corner, in tears*
#9re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:51pm
*hands Emcee a tissue and the AIDA book*
I'm obsessed with AIDA now, but it took me FOREVER to warm up to. I've had the OBCR for two years, but I didn't really listen to it until last May. Now I love it.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#10re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:54pm
Thanks.
*wipes eyes, settles down with book*
*whines* Whyyyyyyy?
#11re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:55pmThe first time I experienced RENT, it was actually seeing the show, so I wouldn't mind that at all. Also, TTB, SFANW, and Last 5 Years.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#12re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:56pm
Oh Emcee...are you that upset? Bless you. I can loan you my Michelle T. Williams - Child of Destiny signed Playbill if you want. She wasn't all that though was she?
Diva: I was totally the same with Rent! I bought it and only got into it a year later. It's so weird isn't it?
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
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Posted: 11/6/04 at 12:59pm
Would you think I was weird if I told you I cried for two hours after I got home from the last show? I actually didn't see Michelle. I took a really long break after Adam left, and Toni Braxton was cast. Made up for lost time this summer, though.
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#14re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 1:18pm
I'd think it was a bit weird, yeah. But each to their own. I really don't understand how people can become SO attached to a show, so I think it is a little odd, but I don't think you're a psycho or a bad person. Just more attached to something than I ever could be.
Michelle T. was bloody awful. Her body was rigid and she looked decidedly uncomfortable on stage. She sounded like a tortured animal when she was trying to belt some of the high notes.
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#15re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 1:20pmMe thinks I need to pull out the old AIDA recording. Its just sitting on the shelf gathering dust...
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#16re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 1:23pmPull it out, boy, pull it out! And then skip to track 9 (Dance Of The Robe), listen to that and then listen to the rest.
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
#17re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 1:39pm
Actually Im doing a concert at the moment, and Ive been told Im doing a duet from the show...dont know which one though....
Plus I do think 'sherie-rene' is abit of a hornbag. 
Updated On: 11/6/04 at 01:39 PM
#18re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 1:51pm
The first time I heard the recording of Pippin, I knew that was it for me.:) This also goes for Tick, Tick, Boom, Aida, Rent, Wicked, Les Miserables, Jane Eyre, Parade, Songs for a new world, Cabaret, and a bunch of others. I also remember thinking that the opening number of Ragtime was the most incredible thing I had ever heard in a musical.
Shows I didn't warm to immediately, then grew to love: Thoroughly Modern Millie, A New Brain (though in retrospect, how did I not immediately LOVE that thing?) and Sunday in the Park with George.
Shows I still can't get into: Camelot leads the pack...
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#19re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 1:55pmI wish I could here WICKED (DEFYING GRAVITY & WIZ AND I) and RENT for the first time agin. I had to warm up to AIDA, although I only like a few of those songs.
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#20re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 2:34pmI'd like to relive the first time I heard Rent. *sighs* Sitting in the back of a van, just repeating, "WTF...this is brilliant!" Interesting intro to a show to one 15 yr old kid (at the time).
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
#21re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 4:24pm
jcz - I know, it's weird. I was attached to it because it was the first show that I really fell in love with as my appreciation for theatre was growing. The fact that I remember such vivid details about the first time I saw it (I was pretty young, too - about thirteen) just made it harder to let go of the fact that it was always there, I guess. Michelle... I was really upset when they started all of that stunt-casting, and I saw the tv spots with Michelle on them. I remember thinking she sounded like a suffering chimpunk.
Anyway, pull out those Aida CD's, people! I might do the same.
#22re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 4:30pmI had only heard bits and peices of SFANW on this radio and accuradio, and decided I hated it, for whatever reason. But, then I actually listened to A Christmas Lullaby and it almost made me cry. When I went to camp this summer, one night I was really upset because I hadn't gotten a part in a show back home. My assistant director sat down and talked to me for a long time, and then told me to listen to this CD. I cried when I listened to it the whole way through... but I still have yet to buy it!
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
#23re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 4:56pm
The Last 5 Years - I remember hearing "The Next 10 Minutes" on a radio one day, and I was just like "God, that is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard." Right after it was over, I purchased it online. It is still one my favorite cast recordings that I own.
Parade - The first time I heard "It Don't Make Sense" I cried so hard that I couldn't breath. That NEVER happens to me. It was also the first time I ever heard Carolee Carmello sing. I was a fan for life.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#24re: Which show/recording would you love to rediscover.
Posted: 11/6/04 at 5:57pm
A lot of my Cast Recordings took some warming up to. Taboo took me about 2 months, and some (Boy From Oz, Millie, Caroline) still dont interest me. However, there are a few that, to use a cliche, had me at hello lol (Producers, Assassins, Avenue Q). And still some others I liked at first, but only because I saw the show first (Joseph, Rent, West Side Story).
I have a different reaction for each CD lol
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