WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
#1WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/11/17 at 6:49pm
The album is currently taking pre-orders and will be released next month.
http://www.sh-k-boom.com/war-paint
Sirius On Broadway is currently previewing songs from the album! Tonight, Seth debuted Patti's opening number "Back On Top," it sounded pretty amazing. Patti belts nonstop in the song, but it's the one number in the show where I struggle with her accent. Keep listening if you want to hear some!
Londonskyguy
Featured Actor Joined: 7/24/06
#3WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/11/17 at 7:26pm
Would love to hear, but don't have Sirius, can't wait for it to be released.
#5WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/11/17 at 9:56pm
Nice to see this is happening.
#6WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/11/17 at 10:58pm
ljay889 said: "The album is currently taking pre-orders and will be released next month.
http://www.sh-k-boom.com/war-paint
Sirius On Broadway is currently previewing songs from the album! Tonight, Seth debuted Patti's opening number "Back On Top," it sounded pretty amazing. Patti belts nonstop in the song, but it's the one number in the show where I struggle with her accent. Keep listening if you want to hear some!
"Cool ty ljay!
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#7WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/11/17 at 11:29pm
1. Best Face Forward
2. Behind the Red Door
3. Back on Top
4. My Secret Weapon
5. My American Moment
6. Step on Out
7. If I’d Been a Man
8. Better Yourself
9. Oh, That’s Rich
10. Face to Face
11. Inside of the Jar
12. Necessity is the Mother of Invention
13. Best Face Forward (Reprise)
14. Now You Know
15. No Thank You
16. Fire and Ice
17. Dinosaurs
18. Pink
19. Forever Beautiful
20. Beauty in the World
21. Finale
Book by Doug Wright
Music by Scott Frankel
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole
Well, seeing this news has been the high point of my life over these past few days!! We're going again; I hope they do the Tonys. Those sets and costumes are gorgeous.
Patti LuPone was an absolute riot (w/Chris Meloni) on Andy Cohen this week.
She takes no prisoners, and loves Rachel Bloom!
I Can Has Cheezburger With This?
Updated On: 5/11/17 at 11:29 PM
#8WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/11/17 at 11:33pm
in case you missed seeing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VCg0Kv2ypo
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#9WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 4:40am
Digital release is May 26th
"It's not where you start, it's where you finish!"
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#10WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 8:10am
The costumes were gorgeous and attention to period detail meticulous, but I found too many of the songs unremarkable, at least on my sole exposure to them in the theater. Also, I could not discern at least half of the lyrics sung by Patti LuPone. That's as good a reason as any to give the songs another chance when the CD is released.
#11WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 8:59am
Although the show is hugely flawed, this is probably the one recording this season I'll listen to more than once.
#12WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 9:32am
As I predicted with Women on the Verge, I believe this score will grow on listeners with the advantage of listening to the cast recording. It's an intricate score with unfamiliar yet rewarding melodies. The majority of the lyrics are smartly crafted, and the orchestrations are lovely. I hear an amalgamation of Cy Coleman and Sondheim influences in the score, several of the upbeat "jazzy" numbers remind me of City of Angels.
#13WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 9:32am
I absolutely adored this score. I can't wait for the recording!
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#14WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 11:41am
The clip of Patti recording "Back on Top" in the studio is great! She looks like she's having such a blast!
http://www.playbill.com/article/war-paint-cast-recording-starring-patti-lupone-and-christine-ebersole-sets-release-date
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Understudy Joined: 2/24/07
#15WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 11:55am
Can't wait for this one!
#16WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 1:20pm
saw this last summer in Chicago and thought it was just okay but very excited that this recording will serve as evidence of Patti's belting prowess into her late 60s as well as the terrific song "Pink."
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#17WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 4:43pm
The album is available on iTunes for pre-order, with "Back On Top" available now. It sounds great - and Patti is in top form.
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
A Director
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/07
#18WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:00pm
They better include the lyrics with the CD. I watched the Playbill clip and only understood three words. DICTION PATTI!
#19WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:24pm
Growing up without the best hearing, I always took special care to try to listen very carefully so I heard every syllable. I still don't hear very well, but now I feel like the care I took has helped me in ways people with regular hearing don't understand. When I saw War Paint, I understood virtually every word Patti said (yes there were a couple here and there, but people are making it out like she takes out dentures and sings the score toothless).
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
Updated On: 5/12/17 at 05:24 PM
#20WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 5:35pm
Ignore his vendetta against Patti. He's been bashing her since 2007.
#21WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 8:09pm
I can't tell if Patti's accent is good or horrendous. But I appreciate that she went all out to play the character.
I like how in the song when she sings "Top" the pitch goes down instead of up. Find it to be unexpected and helps build the character (which is more brassy/masculine than Arden) - and makes the last "Top" all the more satisfying.
Enjoying many of the lyrics too. "my songs don't call, my husband cheats - now they can pay their own receipts" lol.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#22WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 8:57pm
^^^^ I'm guessing that's "sons" not "songs", given the context of the couplet.
Jesus Christ! My husband already hates LuPone; he'll never sit through that accent. (My graduate school advisor was from Poland, so it doesn't sound that odd to my ear. But those of you who are complaining should imagine discussing the finer points of Nietzsche with the woman singing "Back on Top".) I'll have to plant a speaker in the bushes out back in order to listen to the recording when it finally comes out.
#23WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 9:00pm
Haha sorry, I meant sons.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#24WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 10:57pm
Didn't mean to be a jerk, quolbinau. I thought it was amusing somehow.
#25WAR PAINT - The Original Broadway Cast Recording
Posted: 5/12/17 at 11:09pm
I think that this is a score that people will learn to love with repeated listening. Korie's lyrics are wonderfully complex and I wish that they were more appreciated.
