Jay's ANYONE CAN WHISTLE recording is

[ljay889]

OMG
And here's a 13 minute sample. No official release date yet.

http://broadwayworld.com/article/Preview-Barrowman-Friedman-In-Jays-ANYONE-CAN-WHISTLE-20130705

[qolbinau]

I never really liked "Everybody says don't" until now.

What happened to the musicality of Sondheim v2 with Victoria Clark singing "IN BUDDY'S EYES" and "LOSING MY MIND"?

[CATSNYrevival]

This doesn't make up for the fact that no one recorded the Encores production.

[qolbinau]

Indeed. I loved Donna Murphy's "Me and my Town".

[CATSNYrevival]

I also don't see it listed on the official website like the BWW article mentions.

[ljay889]

Me either...

[chewy5000]

It was posted on their Facebook page. No 'official' announcements as to the date, but they've been hinting at it for a while now. It's good to have proof, too.

[AC126748]

Better late than never, but seriously, how long ago was this recorded? It's about time.

[Jordan Catalano]

The article says it was recorded a decade ago.

[gossipguy215]

The "sparkling dialogue" by Laurents?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Donna Murphy's "Me and My Town" was genius. I can't believe they're releasing this one, so excited.

[broadwaybabytn]

GossipGuy, that line about the dialogue got me too.
I'm hopeful in a tentative way.

[ljay889]

Whatever happened to this?

[Musical Master]

^I wish I knew. This would be a great recording of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE if they would just release it right now.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

I don't understand why they won't let me have this.

[Sally Durant Plummer]

I saw this thread bumped and thought it was finally going to be released... But nope, still in production hell. I love the One Touch of Venus recording. I just want a score that I absolutely LOVE. Please release it.

[chewy5000]

For what it's worth, I think they announced that it would be the next release after "The Landing"

[EricMontreal22]

John Yap from JAY has posted on FB recently, very vaguely, that it is finally being penciled in to the upcoming releases--2 or 3 beforehand though. Argh--I remember reading about this in The Sondheim Review in, I swear, twelve years back. I know releasing these albums is an expensive prospect for JAY--following the prolonged release of One Touch of Venus I see all the issues they have to deal with and they can only do one at a time--but really, a major Sondheim recording being in the vaults for so long? (One benefit, potentially, is John Barrowman now is a better known name than he was then.)

[AC126748]

This recording has been "forthcoming" since I was in high school. It seems like every few years there's some progress dangled, and then it's another year or two before another middling announcement is made.