Why is there no Broadway Cast Recording? Even Grey Gardens has two recordings...
To use your example: my understanding is that when GREY GARDENS was "re-recorded", they only re-recorded the new cast members (Erin Davie and Kelsey Fowler) and the new songs that were added for the Broadway run (which, I believe, was only three or four). The rest of the vocals and songs that didn't need any changing were taken directly from the original Off Broadway cast recording.
This would be a lot different than recording a complete FALSETTOS, which is essentially two musicals and which went through many changes.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
