What music is everybody listening to now ?

[Victoria Grant]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 5:55pm

I am listening to the new Sara Brightman Cd " Harem "





"You and ME were the kind of people other people would like to be."

[flaemmchen]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 6:02pm

Cirque du Soleil's Varekai. I love me some Cirque du Soleil.

[BillyLawlor]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 6:02pm

Funny you should say that. I JUST put on Godspell-200 Cast Recording. I got cast in it a while ago, too.

[SONDHEIM8]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 6:14pm

I've been listening to HAIRSPRAY, MOVING OUT and the CHICAGO soundtrack all day.













LINK: Tracy, you look beautiful behind bars!

TRACY: It must be the low-watt institutional lighting!

[sharon1]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 6:20pm

Unsettled Scores MB rendition

[sabrelady]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 6:43pm

Nine revival OBCR, Opera Babes, Man of La Mancha revival OBCR

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 6:48pm

Alfred Brendel's recording of Mozart's Piano Concerti. How soothing!

[Max Bialystock]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 7:02pm

Lil'l Wally's Polka 100 !
(Digitally re-mixed...)

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 7:03pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Gold. The other day, it was Les Miz.

[Deannaizme]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 7:32pm

Old Led Zeppelin that's playing on the radio. Updated On: 7/18/03 at 07:32 PM

[jo]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 7:39pm

Having read about Sam Mendes as likely director for the movie version of SWEENEY TODD - I have just watched the DVD of the concert version with George Hearn and Patti Lupone.

jo

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 7/18/03 at 8:20pm

At this exact moment, I'm listening to "Only In New York" from Thoroughly Modern Millie!

"Make that wish, seek that thrill..."

Posted: 7/18/03 at 8:24pm

Hairspray, yah yah yah yah!

[Copeman63]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 2:05am

I've got my MP3's on random... I just heard "You Spin Me Right 'Round" and now it's "That Thing You Do". But there has been alot of ABBA and Celine Dion tossed into the mix tonight as well. Ooo, and Whitney's "Didn't We Almost Have It All".

[luluhed]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 6:59am

disco

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 7:33am

It's all about the Hairspray!

Hey Copeman, I love your pic there -- mixing Mamma Mia and Hairspray. Nice!

[magruder]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 8:19am

And he's so damned tall, dammit!

Anyway...I'm currently listening to my downstairs neighbor's young daughter murder scales on the piano at 8:30 on Saturday morning ... if you can call it music.

[BrdwyThtr]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 8:22am

I'm listening to Hairspray.

[CourtneyM]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 8:47am

i'm listening to cats at the moment

[PJ]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 8:58am

I'm obsessed over the Gypsy recordings. So they've been playing constantly at home and in the car since...oh I don't know...March.

[magruder]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 9:17am

Speaking of Gypsy, the new revival cast recording will have several bits and pieces never recorded before: the Entr'Acte, Madame Rose's Toreadorables, Small World (reprise) leading into and through the "I'm a pretty girl, Momma!" transition and including all of Gypsy's strips, and the dialogue leading to the final curtain ("Madame Rose...and her daughter, Gypsy!").

It's tough to quibble with the original recording with Merman (though it makes a couple of jarring cuts and changes to the material), but the Lansbury and Daly recordings each have their little quirks and problems that drive me crazy:

Lansbury is great, but her supporting cast isn't, and the tempos are often SLOOOOW. I'm also not certain about some of the keys that Lansbury sang the score in...some songs sound like they are in a very different register. Maybe somewhere here knows?

As well documented, Daly was not in good voice when her Gypsy was recorded, but she has a pretty good supporting cast. They also recorded that album with a monster string section ... along with other additional pieces, and it has always sounded a little TOO grand to me, if such a thing is possible. It starts to veer into symphonic territory.

Anyway, the new one fills in some gaps in the recorded material, and whatever one thinks of Bernadette, she might just end up being the easiest Rose to listen to on record.

[PJ]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 9:36am

I'm anxiously awaiting the Bernadette recording.
The Merman recording is ok. It's not my favorite. I only really like her "Everything's Coming Up Roses." The orchestrations in this version seem very boring to me.
The Lansbury recording is my favorite. The orchestrations are a lot more lively that Merman's.
The Daly version is ok. I love her "Rose's Turn" though.
Bette Midler....EEK! I cannot stand her in this recording. The songs, like "Some People" and "Rose's Turn," are so slow and boring. And plus, I don't think she was the best choice for this role. Maybe the music seemed dreery because it was a tv movie. Who knows? But I know I cannot stand this version
So all in all, Lansbury's recording is my favorite so far. Her vocals are good and the orchestrations in this version have more...oh I don't know, PIZAZZ!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 9:51am

Hey, SONDHEIM8, I was not aware they have already made a movie of MOVIN' OUT. Who is in it and is Billy Joel on the SOUNDTRACK?

I love the SOUNDTRACK of Chicago and Hairspray but I have only heard the ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM of Movin' Out.

[PJ]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 9:53am

Uh oh. Somebody's grumpy...

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/19/03 at 9:55am

Not grumpy, really, just a peeve of mine. I am looking forward to a beautiful day.

By the way: ASSASSINS!