The 2017 SITPWG Cast Recording is HERE!- Page 14
The 2017 SITPWG Cast Recording is HERE!
briansb
Chorus Member Joined: 3/27/17
#325SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 9/30/17 at 5:51am
chernjam said: "Wick3 said: "I agree Lot666 and chernjam. I still remember reading on this board how SITPWG wanted to extend but for some reason 1984 wouldn't budge its start date in May."
Yeah I'm not sure how serious that was or if it was just people in the press (Riedel)/on these boards trying to float something to generate interest and eventually happen. I would think that Jake had a pretty tight time table of when he was available and 10 weeks was a pretty big commitment on his part"
I also know in late April/May Annaleigh was filming American Crime Story in Florida so don't think she could have extended either. I think we all would have preferred a SITPWG extension over 1984 though.........
metropolis10111
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/06
#326SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 9/30/17 at 9:12am
Lot666 said: "ljay889 said: "SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE TRACK LIST
6. The Dog Song"
Any thoughts as to why this piece is a separate track on this recording, but (I believe) was part of "The Day Off" on the original Broadway cast recording?"
Maybe they did research to discover the most fast forwarded part and did it to save people time. I'll admit I am glad to be able to just skip right by it
#327SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 9/30/17 at 10:00am
I didn't get to see the production, thinking Gyllenhaal was just stunt casting. Holy crap, was I wrong. The recording is fantastic. I was moved to tears during Beautiful, one of my all time favorite songs.
It's hard not to hear Mandy and Bernadette in those roles, but this album actually made me forget them.
So, so good.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#328SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 2:43am
He really was quite remarkable - decent vocals and great acting (which I must admit is hard to capture on an audio recording). But can anyone really honestly say they have 100% unreserved satisfaction with Ashford? I guess it's harder for me than others to hear anyone but Bernadette in this role - and on paper Ashford ticks a lot of the boxes. I can tell that she put a lot of thought/effort in her performance, for example in terms of line readings or vocal technique/styles at different points of the score depending on the moment (so much so that it does almost make Bernadette's performance seem a little raw/unpolished). But at the end of the day Ashford's vocal timbre is dime a dozen. It's exactly the kind of vocal performance you'd expect from a skilled Broadway actor in the 21st century. Except for Sutton Foster (who someone once said here was the 'luckiest chorus girl in the world'
- pick any truly successful musical star/leading woman and behind them is a truly unique, distinctive voice that cannot be easily confused with another (e.g., Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald, Christine Ebersole, Angela Lansbury, even Carolee Carmello etc..). You either got it, or you aint. I don't think Ashford has it. What happened to the unique Broadway diva voice? Has it been trained out of people?
"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
Updated On: 10/1/17 at 02:43 AM
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#329SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 2:55am
I think Ashford certainly has something special. She's an incredibly talented comedian with some nice vocal chops. She's really exceptionally funny in everything she does. No one will ever beat Bernadette's quirky, vulnerable, raw, and beautifully bizarre take on Dot, but Annaleigh definitely took the role in her own direction and gave us a lovely Dot and a great Marie (which I kind of preferred to Bernadette's in some aspects). I think she played wonderfully alongside Gyllenhaal. Btw, I wonder what Rachel Bay Jones' Dot would've been like. I guess she's a bit too old now, but I can imagine that she would be able to tap into the place that made Bernadette's Dot so special.
Also, since I saw this production I can't help, but hope that someone revives Little Shop and casts Annaleigh as Audrey. Now that's a role that she could really kill as.
#330SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 2:56am
I know I have a clear bias, but I would hardly call Ashford's voice a dime a dozen. It's unmistakeably Annaleigh Ashford. And this isn't to say she has the best voice in the world, but it is, indeed, a unique voice. Am I just delusional or can other people really easily confuse another's voice for Ashford's??
Also, I hate to be that guy, but Ashford won a Tony before she turned thirty. She's definetly got something.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#331SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 3:35am
i agree that her voice is unique and she’s very talented but she’s not one of those one in a million distinctive/fantastic voices like some of the ladies qolbinau mentioned. we probably could never confuse Patti or Bernie with anyone else but i could understand not thinking of Annaleigh’s voice as unmistakable.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#332SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 10:06am
^^^ Not sure how one can call her voice unique but not distinctive as those two words are synonyms. I wasn’t lucky enough to see this production, but I saw her in Kinky Boots. She was fabulous! I also love her performance on the new SITPWG recording. I’m not sure why we are compelled to always compare performers and (works of art) to each other to deem one the best and one or more the loser(s). In regard to female performers, this need to compare seems to take on an especially passionate fervor. When artists reach a certain point of excellence, there may not be a true best, just distinctive. I think Annaleigh Ashford falls in that category. Her work in KB as Lauren was excellent and different to me. (And isn’t that a different part of the magic of art - that it resonates differently with different people?) I can’t imagine Patti LuPone (at any age) in that Lauren role in KB. That’s obviously not to dismiss Ms. LuPone’s talent. That would be ridiculous. It’s just to say that Annaleigh Ashford is a unique, very talented artist in her own right. Of course, if we didn’t feel the need to compare artists and works of art, we wouldn’t need awards shows. There would be no Tonys, no Oscars, no Grammys. And I do love a good awards show. Lol. So I’m complicit.
JBC3
Broadway Star Joined: 4/9/17
#333SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 11:31am
Ashford paired with Gyllenhaal is a nice complement of voices as was Peters and Patinkin.
Swap partners in either of these pairings and I think things would sound far less balanced and the uniqueness of the Peters and Patinkin instruments would be glaring.
I love the recording and what Ashford and Gyllenhaal each brought to their role, but their contributions are far less distinctive than the original players ... which is 100% OK.
#334SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 12:24pm
Nothing will beat the combination of Patinkin and Peters. Peters quirky vocals as Dot will never be matched. The Gyllenhaal and Ashford pairing are definitely a close second for me, and I find them more enjoyable and fulfilling than the Evans/Russell pairing.
What I also loved about Gyllenhaal and Ashford is that they were totally believable as a couple in their early 30's, the couple should not appear too old. Ashford was the perfect physical compliment to Gyllenhaal, and someone like Rachel Bay Jones or even Carmen Cusack would've appeared much too old against Gyllenhaal's George, who died at only 31.
#335SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 4:22pm
As is often the case, Mandy and Bernadette, in creating the roles, seem to BE George and Dot.
Anyone else is merely ACTING the role.
Still, Jake and Annaleigh act the roles very well!
#336SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 6:42pm
devonian.t said: "As is often the case, Mandy and Bernadette, in creating the roles, seem to BE George and Dot.
Anyone else is merely ACTING the role.
Still, Jake and Annaleigh act the roles very well!"
I'm not really following your logic here. There are many instances in the history of theater where the actor who originated a role does not embody it as well as subsequent performers. I think we sometimes view the original version as the quintessential one because it is the basis upon which we form our conception of what the role is. I'm sure that for many people whose first introduction to the musical was with Jake and Annaleigh, those roles will be defined by them, with videos of Mandy and Bernadette appearing to involve their "merely acting" the roles.
#337SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 10:15pm
You guys ever see Ashford in Masters of Sex? She brought so much humor and heart to a show where the leads were self-serious to the point of annoyance. I love her earthier take on Dot/Marie.
#338SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/1/17 at 10:25pm
poisonivy2 said: "You guys ever see Ashford in Masters of Sex? She brought so much humor and heart to a show where the leads were self-serious to the point of annoyance. I love her earthier take on Dot/Marie."
Should-be Emmy nominee!
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#339SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/2/17 at 10:01am
I'm sure mine is an unpopular opinion, but I could never have sat through the Patinkin and Peters production because I simply do not care for their respective voices. Gyllenhaal and Ashford actually motivated me to see this, and I'm grateful for the brilliant experience it was.
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Rinaldo
Understudy Joined: 5/5/09
#340SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/4/17 at 3:57pm
qolbinau said: "But can anyone really honestly say they have 100% unreserved satisfaction with Ashford?"
Yes, I certainly can. I've seen, I guess, 6 Dots onstage now (the first of them being Peters, three times). All had their pluses and minuses, but Ashford would be high on the list, maybe at the very top. And whatever else one might say about the sound of her voice, it's distinctive -- I'd always know it was her.
#341SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 10/9/17 at 12:25pm
I listened to this recording with the intention of purchasing it but changed my mind after hearing Ashford. She has a decent voice but I think she sounds like a pop singer, scooping and crooning notes in a way that is wrong for the character(s) because it sounds too contemporary. The production values / orchestrations are great and I love Gyllenhaal but, no, I don't think so.
#342SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 11/18/17 at 2:33pm
I don’t know why I only just got around to listening to the new cast album. Wow. Michael Starobin’s refreshed orchestrations, gorgeously played and gorgeously recorded, sound incandescent. Every time the Sunday “burble” comes up (the sound you first hear at the beginning when George says “Harmony” it’s so magical it brings tears. And you really notice how beautifully it’s varied (as in “Move On&rdquo.
Question: Does anybody know who coached Gyllenhaal on the songs? I’m hugely impressed. Patinkin was more of a vocal powerhouse, certainly, but Gyllenhaal actually hits more of the notes as Sondheim wrote them—not easy at all! (Compare the two in “Finishing the Hat.&rdquo He clearly worked really hard on that, and I could just hug him for it (but I think there’s a long line in front of me waiting for that privilege).
#343SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 11/18/17 at 2:42pm(It appears to be omposdible on this site to prevent an autocorrection of quotation mark-parenthesis-period to a happy face!)
#344SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June
Posted: 12/3/17 at 1:03pmFor those who still like to buy physical CDs, the online company importcds.com has the 2-CD Sunday in the Park set for $13, which is a lot cheaper than Amazon’s $24. They are also having a sale on cast albums and soundtracks.
