Cast recordings you don't get
Cast recordings you don't get
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#0Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:33pm
Do you have a cast recording that you want to love, but just don't get? Or how about cast recordings you don't get and don't care? lol
I want to love Taboo, but I cant. Raul is great (as usual lol), but I just find the music kinda, I don't know, boring. Must be one of those shows I have to see. And I dont care for Scarlet Pimpernel, and I have no desire to force myself to love it lol.
I am trying to love Taboo more, tho... lol. I'm working on individual performers, I've moved on to Cary Shields. lol
#1re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:35pm
"WANT to love"? I don't get it...
I'd want to love EVERY show, but some just aren't that good...
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#2re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:41pmAmour, I bought it and just can't get into it. Also I bought the "Tale of Two Cities" concept recording becasue the song I got to download "The Tale" was AMAZING. And yet I haven't gotten into the rest of the show yet. Strange.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#3re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:42pm
For me, its Katharine Hepburn as COCO (1970).
I guess its hard to capture a show about a fashion designer on a CD. :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#4re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:45pm
The Producers... I just want to be like everybody else and love it! But I can't. 
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#5re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:46pmWonderful Town - I love the old fashioned jazzy sound, but the songs just don't cut if for me...except for a few, like the Overture, Christopher Street, A Little Bit in Love, Conga, and My Darlin' Eileen.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#6re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:47pm
La Cage aux Folles
and Sunday in the park with george
Sunday in the park...has a few good songs (Sunday in the park with george, sunday, its hot up here, and move on). the rest doesnt do it for me.
La Cage: Some songs are really catchy but i cant seem to fall in love with it. Maybe after a few more times in my cd player ill love it more.
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#7re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:49pmAbsolutely Taboo. A lot of people here rant and rave about it so I checked it out, but I just find the music so bland.
Millie42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/04
#8re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:55pm
MyName... I understand that. I thought Producers was alright but I dont get the hype over it.
And Delphine, I *LOVE* your icon! Making Fiends is great!
"My friends have made the story of my life."
-Helen Keller
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#9re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:58pm
Hello Millie. . . :)
I am so sorry you don't care for the WONDERFUL TOWN CD. You may want to track down the ORIGINAL CAST CD (Rosalind Russell, Edie Adams) and hear how it should be performed properly.
It really is one of THE classic Broadway scores.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#10re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/9/04 at 11:59pmAw, thanks, Millie. Making Fiends is fabulous!
#11re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:01amI honestly don't think I have that problem. I don't like listening to recording unless I've seen the show because, honestly, a lot of times I know that makes a substantial difference.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
Millie42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/04
#12re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/10/04 at 12:05am
Oh, I actually dont have The Producers recording b/c I saw the show and wasnt very impressed.
The only show I have bought the CD for before I saw was Wicked...and I must say, I like the recording more than the show itself. I think its because when I first listened to the recording, I filled in the blanks with the plot from the book--which is far more complex and clever than the show. (Don't attack me... I like the show too)
"My friends have made the story of my life."
-Helen Keller
#13re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/10/04 at 8:19pm
Hey Mary Ethel...
I agree with the Coco recording. I bought it knowing full well Katharine said for her doing a musical was like playing tennis without strings in the racket. But I bought it anyway because I love Katharine. That aside... Previn's score isn't all that engaging in my opinion.
From the evil she done Lord
Set her free, Set her free, Set me free
Don't let my sorrow
Make evil of me
#14re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/10/04 at 8:22pm
Martin Guerre...I could never get into it, and then I let my brother play frisbee with it, and I've never seen it again.
The first song was good.
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#15re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/10/04 at 8:25pm
*blinks*
*blinks*
It's ok if you all don't like it, but just how? How do you not like Taboo? I thought it was a great mix, all the songs were unique and well-written.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#16re: Cast recordings you don't get
Posted: 10/10/04 at 8:27pmI was going to say Martin Guerre too! I bought it and never listened to it. Then a few weeks later all my cds were stolen so I never actually heard the cd more than once.
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