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cast recordings you have to listen to a lot to like them??
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#25
Posted: 12/13/08 at 2:45am
""Sunday In The Park With George" took a few listens for me. But it became one of my favorites."
^ Same here, but then a little bird took me when I went to NY and it's one of my faves now too :)
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#26
Posted: 12/13/08 at 8:06am
Probably Pacific Overtures but it, and other Sondheim shows are only harder to listen to if you haven't seen the show IMO. I still can't enjoy Follies for what I assume is this very reason. "A little night music" sounded uniform to me until I saw it - then I couldn't believe I was listening to the same cast album, it just makes so much sense. I had no issues with "Sunday in the park with George" since I saw it first from the DVD.
The only Sondheim show I've liked just from listening the cast recording, straight away, with knowing nothing of the show in "Sweeney Todd".
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re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#27
Posted: 12/13/08 at 12:18pmI'll probably get skewered for this one but I could not stand Phantom of the Opera for the longest time. Until I heard a clip of Michael Ball sing it lol. That man can make me listen to anything!!
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#28
Posted: 12/13/08 at 12:41pm
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re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#29
Posted: 12/13/08 at 2:37pm
With a few exceptions (perhaps SWEENEY and ASSASSINS), the Sondheim shows you almost have to be familiar with to appreciate. I didn't care for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC until I read the libretto, and I can see why you wouldn't like SUNDAY or PASSION until you saw the DVDs (I saw the DVDs first).
LaChuisa's WILD PARTY took me one or two listens, and now I love it.
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re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#30
Posted: 12/13/08 at 3:05pmYeah, I'm still trying to work my way into A Little Night Music, and Follies.
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re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#31
Posted: 12/13/08 at 3:58pm
Jane Eyre ~ The Musical for me.
Honestly, I don't love it, but I can certainly now appreciate and understand the "Eyreheads" I believe they called themselves, and also see a lot of the charm in the music. Hopefully something will come of it again someday!
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#32
Posted: 12/13/08 at 4:43pmAt first I listened to Passing Strange I was like WTF is this?!? And then I listened again and again and now its one of my favorites.
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re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#33
Posted: 12/13/08 at 5:08pmI am still getting through "A Little Night Music". I trasferred Audra McDonald's PBS special at Lincoln Center to CD and I tend to listen to her version of "The Glamorous Life" a lot more than I listen to the OBCR. I need to put the OBCR in this evening while cooking and listen!
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#34
Posted: 12/13/08 at 6:36pm
Almost any of the Sondheim oevure took me 3-4 listens to love. Now the only one I don't like is Passion.
Seesaw and the LaChuisa Wild Party took me a while, too...now I can't imagine life without one, and the other doesn't send me screaming from a room.
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#35
Posted: 12/13/08 at 6:55pm
A lot of Sondheim actually gets me on the first listen.
But It took a long time to get into PACIFIC OVERTURES.
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#36
Posted: 12/13/08 at 7:19pmThis thread is going to get me to dust off some CDs as Adding Machine and Light in the Piazza have been gathering dust in my collection for a little while now.
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#37
Posted: 12/13/08 at 8:21pmI have been cooking for the past 45 minutes and A Little Night Music has been playing. Enjoying it! About to eat in 10 minutes or so, and am up to "Send in the Clowns".
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#38
Posted: 12/15/08 at 6:01am
Marie Christine was a bit of struggle but well worth the repeated playing it took to finally sink in. Never had much of a problem with Sondheim apart from Passion (I discovered Pacific Overtures around the time I was studying Japanese music at school, so was immediately hooked on the weird fusion of Western and Far Eastern sounds in the score).
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re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#39
Posted: 12/16/08 at 11:57amThe verson Audra sings of The Glamorous Life wasnt' in the original show. Is that what you mean? It's a brilliant song, isn't it?
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#40
Posted: 12/16/08 at 12:02pmLegally Blonde. I saw it on MTV, and I hated it, as did my entire chorus class. Then my sister became obsessed, and at first it really irritated me, but after awhile, I started to see the charm and start liking some of the tunes. I still don't love Legally Blonde-- at best, I think it's cute-- but I don't hate it anymore.
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re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#41
Posted: 12/16/08 at 12:04pm
Pacific Overtures was a tough one when I first listened to it but now I want to do it at my theater company. (I'm an artistic director.)
Sunday in the Park With George took several listenings. It was a challenge at first but now it's one of my favorites.
I still don't like maybe a third of the score of Piazza (what's up with all the"ah"ing? Did Guettel forget to write words or what?)
I had a hard time with Threepenny Opera, the Raul Julia/Lincoln Center version and currently out of print. But then it's not a "musical" in the sense that it was written in the 1920's by Weill and Brecht in Germany so it's not a "TRADITIONAL" Broadway show.
Billy Elliott didn't grab my interest and still doesn't. Neither did/does Rent.
re: soundtracks you have to listen to a lot to like them??#42
Posted: 12/16/08 at 12:09pm
I still can't get into Pacific Overtures, sorry.
Anyway, probably The Last Five Years and Assassins. Passion and LitP I both fell in love with pretty much right away.
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re: cast recordings you have to listen to a lot to like them??#43
Posted: 12/16/08 at 12:43pm
It took a few listens to Little Fish for me to really get a lot of the songs.
Actually most of Michael John LaChiusa's stuff typically takes a few listens for me, but then I love it.
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re: cast recordings you have to listen to a lot to like them??#44
Posted: 12/16/08 at 6:15pmWell I just watched the DVD of Passion in hopes that visuals might help me with the score. I found it kinda "meh", it had great moments but overall it left me indifferent. I guess if I listen to the cast recording a couple more times I might find something in it.
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re: cast recordings you have to listen to a lot to like them??#45
Posted: 12/16/08 at 6:20pm
A lot of them. In fact, the only albums I really fell for on first listen was Avenue Q, Producers and Assassins. The rest takes me a while. Unless it's anything by Webber or Tesori...
Updated On: 12/16/08 at 06:20 PM
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re: cast recordings you have to listen to a lot to like them??#46
Posted: 12/17/08 at 12:12am
Can't get into any Sondheim and really dislike the tuneless Tesori scores -BORING
One of the hardest to like is Light in the Piazza. I only like one or two numbers. I really just want to junk the album.
re: cast recordings you have to listen to a lot to like them??#47
Posted: 12/17/08 at 3:28pm
Jejr, you've seen the show or at least a video recording right (of Sondheim shows+ LITP).
It just doesn't make much sense without seeing it first, then it just 'hits' IMO and you might start liking it.
re: cast recordings you have to listen to a lot to like them??#48
Posted: 12/17/08 at 3:51pm
[title of show]. I got the recording and listening, thinking "what? I don't get it." Then I saw the show in July. Everything became clear and I enjoy listening now because I "get" it. I do think it's a show that you need to see before you can truly appreciate the cast recording.
And I've tried, but still can't enjoy The Producers. Oh, I *love* the show and think the numbers work very well within it, but without the visual, the score doesn't translate on well listening to it on my ipod. I just guess I need to see chorus guy and gals forming a swastika on stage to get the full effect...
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re: cast recordings you have to listen to a lot to like them??#49
Posted: 12/17/08 at 7:07pmYes, I've seen the shows or the videos and I still do not care for Sondheim or "Light".
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