Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
#1Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/25/12 at 11:47pm
On PS Classics.
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#2Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/25/12 at 11:52pmHuh?! Wha?! Was this ever announced??
#2Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/25/12 at 11:56pm
Wow a two disc set! Why has this been so under the radar?
I'm thrilled and just pre-ordered a copy. Great price for two discs.
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nasty_khakis
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#3Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:09am
So Santa and the Baby Jesus got my letterz!!!?
I can haz Colin Donnell's "Our Time?!"
#4Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:16am
Another recording? I love the score, but we have three already, it's it's only been a little more than thirty years!
I would have rather seen a new recording of PIPE DREAM.
#5Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:17am
No complaints...but of all the Encores! productions of the past few years, why this?
I would still give my left...well...a lot...for a recording of last years Anyone Can Whistle.
#6Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:19am
Or even Kelli O'Hara and Will Chase in BELLS ARE RINGING?
I mean, this was a good MERRILY..., but there have been so many other fabulous stagings at Encores! other than this one. WHISTLE, BELLS and even that FOLLIES from years back all come to mind.
Updated On: 3/26/12 at 12:19 AM
#7Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:23amI had no idea this was happening.. sweeeeeet.
#8Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:26amWow. Amazing. Why no announcement???
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#10Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:37am
Did they already record it or are they recording it soon? This was a good cast, but not the best Merrily that has ever been done. Miranda's acting was good, but his singing was lacking. Either way, I'm glad we'll get a full recording of teh score with the original orchestrations.
Do they typically go into the studio for Encores! shows? I only fear that with time Encores! could become an excuse to get a new studio recording with stars done. I don't think it will.
#11Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:44amIt's being recorded next month per the article linked above.
#12Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 12:52am
with the original orchestrations.
They are promoting it as new orchestrations. Though they are fairly similar to the original.
I only fear that with time Encores! could become an excuse to get a new studio recording with stars done.
I think any and all cast recordings are a good thing. Just my opinion.
#13Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 1:07amThe way I understand it is that they used the original orchestrations but used a bigger orchestra so technically they're "new" or at least "new-ish"
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#14Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 1:09amI thought this thread was a joke. It'll be a nice recording to own, but I would have preferred Anyone Can Whistle.
#15Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 1:18amThis was out of left field. I'm happy to see it being done... but, like others have said, I wish Anyone Can Whistle was recorded. That show sorely needs another recording.
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#16Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 1:26am
There are definitely new moments in the orchestrations. They can be heard in the Overture and Gussie's Growing Up. Gussie's Act 2 Opener (now named "Musial Husbands") has been completely rearranged and reorchestrated. I'm sure there are other moments, but those are the ones I picked up on. It will be nice to have these updated/expanded orchestrations on disc.
Updated On: 3/26/12 at 01:26 AM
#17Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 1:46am
Great news! I am loving PS Classics, and they are quickly becoming my favorite record label!
As to everyone wondering why this show (and not "Pipe Dream", et al) is being recorded, it probably has to do with their relationship to Sondheim. Which makes me really wonder why they passed over "Anyone Can Whistle", which had some great singers in Donna, Raul, and (even though I don't really like her) Sutton. Maybe ACW's rights are tied up in that forever on hold Jay Records recording with John Barrowman?
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#18Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 4:12pm
This is so random but cool. I wonder who is paying for this??
"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
#19Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 4:13pmJust so happy to get a new recording of Now You Know.
....but the world goes 'round
#20Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 4:56pmI think ljay is paying for it. I heard rumors...
#21Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 5:48pmPIPE DREAM, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, BELLS ARE RINGING, and even GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES could have been great, but this is nice too!
#22Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 6:00pmI was really hoping for Pipe Dream.
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#23Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/26/12 at 6:08pmRemember that DRG has recorded most if not all of the Encores! albums. Maybe they'll do PIPE DREAM or BLONDES?
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#24Encores! Merrily cast recording available for pre-order
Posted: 3/27/12 at 12:16amI wouldn't be surprised if Tommy Krasker, Steve Sondheim, or MTI is funding. I wonder if this will become the licensed version?
