Worst cast album — Page 3

metropolis10111 said: "I'd like to add the Actor's Fund recording of HAIR. If ever an album was lifeless it's that one. Everyone is phoning in the movie arrangements 

"Not the movie arrangements.  Seth Rudetsky arranged them around the performers, see Shoshanna Bean and her whistle tone, etc.  also after doing the concert, theyonly had a take or two to record them, and Rudetsky couldn't be there for all of it, so sometimes things got missed, like a blah ending by the background singers at the end of one number, actually I think that was also Bean's I Believe in Love

For me I would say the worst cast album is Spider-man Turn off the Dark.  They don't even bother to put the songs in the same order as the show

Eric, sorry to continue the argument (a day later), as you are completely valid with your points, but Cats was a different being. It was already a hit in London and Memory was already being sung all around the world before opening in NY and being recorded with the OBC. The fact that the OBC was actually in question at the time, as I recall.

Dreamgirls had a big R&B hit with "And I'm Telling You..." but that hadn't already happened when the album was recorded. It was Jennifer Holliday and her performance that catapulted her and the song via TV shows. There was no internet, so no way to gage beforehand what would hit or miss.

I'm sure with hindsight, even Geffen wishes he had taken the chance and recorded the full score, but he made a business decision and it worked.

I quite agree and Wicked is one my favorite shows!

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Updated On: 10/21/15 at 07:11 PM

I always thought that Dance A Little Closer was recorded in an aeroplane hanger.