You wish that was recorded

What performance do you wish was recorded for CD? It could be a replacement performer or understudy. It could be a show that never got a cast recording. It could be an Encores production.

Mine is the Chess concert with Julia Murney and Sutton Foster, instead of Idina Menzel and Kerry Ellis.

Updated On: 5/17/12 at 08:50 PM

Kurt Yahjian, when interviewed for Jesus Christ Superstar Zone, informed us of a performance during the original Broadway run in which he played Judas, Ted Neeley played Jesus, and Nell Carter played Mary. I'd love to have that preserved, especially Nell.

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The Apple Tree revival

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The original London cast of Hairspray

I really wish the Ragtime revival had gotten a recording.

The Encores! production of Fanny.

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The Encores! production of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.

The Encores production of Carnival with Brian Stokes Mitchell and Anne Hathaway.

The entire score of Inner City
Via Galactica
Gantry

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I will get shot for this, but I'd love for the Pal Joey revival with Risch, Channing and Plimpton to have a cast recording. I loved it.

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Bettyboy72, I'll get shot with you. I'd love a recording of that too!

I guess my biggest wishes are for the unrecorded Michael John La Chiusa shows, particularly THE HIGHEST YELLOW. I'm also a sucker for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, so I'd love to see official recordings of EDGES, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and DOGFIGHT emerge.

qolbinau wrote: A Bernadette Peters/Elaine Stritch NIGHT MUSIC sampler. It's really such a shame. Her "Send in the Clowns" was a perfect combination of acting and singing.

I wish there was a recording of Bernadette Peters in the role, but when I think back to this revival, I wish timing had allowed for Peters and Angela Lansbury to appear together. That would have been, to my mind, the perfect pairing for this revival. I didn't hate Catherine Zeta-Jones the way so many seemed to, although some of her choices weren't completely compelling to me, and the casting of Elaine Stritch as Mme Armfeldt still reads like Stritch in a period dress rather than a seamless blend between character and star.


perfectlymarvelous wrote: I really wish the RAGTIME revival had gotten a recording.

I don't. The revival cast was like an inferior replacement cast. There was simply no need for a new cast album, except perhaps as a record of the nips and tucks that were made.


NovaNurse7 wrote: NEXT TO NORMAL with Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie.

Me too. I heard such wonderful things about Marin Mazzie in NEXT TO NORMAL and I would love to hear why. To be honest, I've never really connected with the show so I haven't even made the effort to look around for any record of her work in it. I wonder if Mazzie would make the difference, since I truly love her work and think she's a marvellous actress. I also am a bit of a sucker for a gimmick like this - using a real life married couple to play one on stage - and I often wonder what dynamic that lent to the production while Jason Danieley and Mazzie were in the show.

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Updated On: 5/18/12 at 12:27 AM

I'll second that I wish Anyone Can Whistle and Carnival at Encores would have been recorded. Adding to that I wish I had recording of Applause at Encores and The Threepenny Opera Revival. While the production was meh, i liked the cast and would have liked it.

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