Will they record Pal Joey?
Will they record Pal Joey?
#2re: Will they record Pal Joey?
Posted: 12/18/08 at 6:44pmWho knows? Considering the quality of the voices, it isn't likely.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#2re: Will they record Pal Joey?
Posted: 12/18/08 at 8:08pmI'd venture to guess that the critical response isn't going to be too good and that any thoughts of recording it will go the route of the Roundabout's Follies.
#3re: Will they record Pal Joey?
Posted: 12/18/08 at 8:46pmI can't imagine anyone choosing to listen to Stockard Channing sing those otherwise beautiful songs.
-Kad
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-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
LadyDramaturg2
Featured Actor Joined: 8/21/08
#5re: Will they record Pal Joey?
Posted: 12/19/08 at 3:53am
It's eerily similar to the 1933 production of "Gay Divorce" where every critic mentioned that nobody in the cast (Fred Astaire included) could be heard over the orchestra most of the time and when they did, none of them could carry the Cole Porter tunes. Fred had a weak voice, Clair Luce had a weak voice, Eric Rhodes and Eric Blore couldn't really sing well and the all-girl chorus werewn't hired for their vocal capabilities.
What the hell were they thinking then? What the hell are they thinking now?
LadyDramaturg2
Featured Actor Joined: 8/21/08
#6re: Will they record Pal Joey?
Posted: 12/19/08 at 4:22am
Whoa, allofmylife, where are you going with that? Fred Astaire was not Ezio Pinza, but he was a musician, and he didn't need nine hours to learn to get the pitches on his song accurately.
The Pal Joey situation is a whole 'nother ball park.
#7re: Will they record Pal Joey?
Posted: 12/19/08 at 7:59amThe show probably won't stay open long enough for them to have a recording.
#8re: Will they record Pal Joey?
Posted: 12/19/08 at 2:09pmIt's a non-profit limited run, wrightstateboy45.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#9re: Will they record Pal Joey?
Posted: 12/19/08 at 2:12pmNot every Roundabout revival gets recorded unfortunately. I would like to cite, if I may, the revivals of The Apple Tree and The Threepenny Opera.
#10will they record paljoey?
Posted: 12/19/08 at 2:17pmi already did. several times. but i'm told it is inadmissable in court.
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#11will they record paljoey?
Posted: 12/22/08 at 3:48amLadydramaturg, Fred could sing but his voice was very thin. Onstage, he was often overwhelmed by the orchestra but when he danced, nobody minded. I have found articles in British newspapers mentioning this. Stage Magazine gave Gay Divorce a scathing review because nobody in the cast could sing (a common note in most of the Gotham reviews.) When Fred was in a recording studio, six inches from a microphone, THEN he could sing because he didn't have to force that reedy voice to fill a hall (and remember I ADORE him, this isn't news). Nobody could deliver a song like Fred Astaire. But filling a theater was not his forte.
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#12will they record paljoey?
Posted: 12/22/08 at 7:29amSo what Allofmylife is saying is this show will become a hit, and much beloved, movie in a year or so, like Gay Divorce?? YEAY!!
#13will they record paljoey?
Posted: 12/22/08 at 12:27pmAll of that already did happen. This is just a bad revival and a sad revival because it will be the only revival for a long time. So much better was hoped for. They promised pie in the sky but delivered poo on the shoe.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#14will they record paljoey?
Posted: 12/22/08 at 2:10pmI really hope this gets recorded. I'll buy it in a snap so I can play Stockard's Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered for people who can't believe there's anything more unbelievable than Florence Foster Jenkins singing the Queen of the Night aria.
#15will they record paljoey?
Posted: 12/22/08 at 2:27pmFlorence Foster Jenkins really sounds like a kitty.
#16will they record paljoey?
Posted: 12/22/08 at 3:51pm
Kids you need to calm yourselves ... Stockard is not that bad. She yes has some vocal limits to her voice... but the emotion and work that goes into the delivery of the lyric over powers any lack of vocal ability for me at least.
I found the production charming, clever and entertaining. Granted there are some things I would change but this is not horrible. This is a time when I feel lucky that a show that is not likely to be well liked or even have a long run even got revived. So I am thankful for that.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#18will they record paljoey?
Posted: 12/22/08 at 4:40pmI thought Channing was the least of the productions worries. I wish the director had done something with her big solo to take the emphasis off her singing, and instead put the focus on the words and the situation.
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