CABARET Cast Recording?

[smallworld]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 9:19pm

I know it doesn't seem very likely, but had anyone heard any rumors or rumblings of a possible cast recording of the current revival of Cabaret? I'm remaining hopeful!

[ethan231h]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 9:35pm

I really hope maybe if Michelle, Linda and maybe Danny win tony's it could but, because Alan is in the same roll they might not record!

[Kad]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 9:40pm

I really see no reason why they would make a cast recording of a production that already has a cast recording.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 9:46pm

Anything's possible. It's been done before. When Brooke Shields replaced Rosie O'Donnell in GREASE they released another recording and it was the same production.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 9:47pm

Yeah, but Brooke Shields replaced Rosie in the same production, not over ten years later.

[ethan231h]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 10:15pm

same with Matilda!

[Kad]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 10:30pm

And that had a cast that was almost entirely new, plus some musical revisions.

This production is musically the same at the revival recording. Cummings' performance is not substantially different. The main selling point of a revised recording for this would be Michelle Williams- and I doubt that's a big enough draw to merit the recording at all.

Could we see a release of a few tracks sung by Williams, Emond, and Burstein? I mean, I guess?

Updated On: 4/19/14 at 10:30 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 10:45pm

They could cut costs and use the same Cumming/band tracks.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 10:46pm

For Brooke Shields they didn't re-record the whole show. Brooke's vocals were placed over Rosie's, nobody else on the recording was different. That process was later repeated for the re-release of the Wonderful Town cast album when Brooke took over for Donna Murphy (though they also included the vocals of Jennifer Hope Wills who replaced Jennifer Westfeldt).

[Kad]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 10:53pm

I highly doubt that Roundabout, with its extremely sizable deficit, would pony up money to make a glorified re-issue of a cast recording that would really only sell to a niche market of a niche market (let's face it- most people would just go on iTunes and buy the Williams tracks for $0.99).

This production was conceived as a low-risk way to help fill Roundabout's hurting coffers.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 11:00pm

I honestly don't see why they can't make it. Alan is the only old person from the 90s BRC. Everyone in the show is new. Yeah, some of the KK girls was in the last revival, but I'm unsure if they were in the last recording.

And like someone said, Matilda made a OBC recording, and they had 2 old people in it.

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 11:02pm

The fact that Matilda was appearing on Broadway for the first time ever could have something to do with that distinction?

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 11:03pm

^But, Sister Act and Mary Poppins didn't had OBC recordings either

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 11:12pm

We seem to be drifting pretty off-topic from whether a show should re-record its Broadway cast recording with a nearly identical revival to comparing West End shows that didn't record their Broadway versions at all... plus, it seems to not be a coincidence that of your three examples, the "anomaly" that did do a recording is the successful, still-open show.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 11:24pm

For Brooke Shields they didn't re-record the whole show. Brooke's vocals were placed over Rosie's, nobody else on the recording was different.

Not true. Brooke's "Greased Lightning" reprise and "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" utilize different ensemble vocalists including Ray Walker, Brad Kane, Adrian Zmed and Sherie Rene Scott - none of those actors were in the original cast or on the original recording. They were all replacements. They're listed on page 3 of the CD booklet.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 4/19/14 at 11:30pm

Thanks for the correction, CATS. I haven't heard the recording in a very long time (and then it was a friend's copy, so I never looked at the booklet), I was just going on what I had been told.