First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
#1First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 9:46am
EW has a first listen of the new cast recording of Once on this Island, however it doesn't seem to be working for me. It's a shame, because I'm extremely excited for this one.
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Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#2First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 9:52am
I can't get it to work, either. It's almost as if they didn't upload the tracks but just created the article.
I hope it works soon because I'm excited for this album as well!!
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#3First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 9:57amNot working for me either. So weird.
#4First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 10:14am
I don't love the score, but I will absolutely be buying Alex Newell's "Mama Will Provide." It's one of the most thrilling Broadway vocal performances in a long time.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 2/21/18 at 10:14 AM
jonah3500
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#6First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 10:26amMine says "no tracks here yet." I guess it didn't upload. Someone should maybe reach out to Broadway Records and let them know.
jonah3500
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
#7First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 10:39am
The playlist must have been made private, I can't access it on SoundCloud anymore.
EW's site doesn't work either yet.
UPDATE: IT WORKS NOW!!!!!!
INCREDIBLE!!!
#9First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 11:35am
It's incredible so far.
Only let down for me is Darrington. Norm Lewis's "Rain" was so much more powerful.
"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
#10First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 11:50amCan’t wait to blast this when I get home from work
jonah3500
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
#11First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 12:07pm
Just finished my first listen. My thoughts:
I wish that Norm Lewis was in this recording instead of Quentin Earl Darrington; Norm was incredible.
Alex Newell is INCREDIBLE in Mama Will Provide, but the melodica (or is it an accordion?) grabs my attention in this song.
In the OBCR, the recording included an amazing moment where everybody is talking about Ti Moune after being told that
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I wish they included this moment in the new cast recording.
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#12First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 12:39pmIt sounds incredible and those new orchestrations are just so colorful. I just wish they had opted for two CDs and recorded the full show, dialogue and all because some of the underscoring is really beautiful. Overall though, it's a great album.
#13First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 4:34pm
WOW, absolutely gorgeous, everything is so clear and lush.
#14First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 4:50pm
I love everything about this show and have been listening all day... the music sounds great, but is some of the balance off for anyone else? (I.e. in the beginning of "We Dance," the first "please Agwe, don't flood my garden" seems less sharp/clear than the other lines in that segment.) I'm going to assume that this is SoundCloud and/or my ear buds and/or the fact that I'm listening at work with people talking around me, and that it'll be great in the real thing that's released on Friday... but just curious if anyone else is noticing this? There were a couple of other spots that I felt like the balance was weirdly off. (Like, in the same song, the grands hommes singing "how fine our clothes are/how fast we drive/we dance at parties..." - is that meant to be "distant"? I don't remember that choice in the actual show.)
Not that this will prevent me from listening to it at all, haha. Still my favorite production in a long time.
#15First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 4:54pmThey were selling the CD at the theatre today.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#16First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 5:21pm
A most Amazing recording of a real game-changing Production. Bravo to ALL!
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#18First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 5:51pm
The new orchestrations are beautiful. Some really nice new vocal layering.
Bwayfan292
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/17
#19First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 11:07pm
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Just got done with the Cast Album and its amazing.
Updated: Spelling.
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Updated On: 2/21/18 at 11:07 PM
#20First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/21/18 at 11:39pm
I am not even fully though the playlist but I have lost count of how many times I gotten goosebumps. This recording is simply fantastic!
EllieRose2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/22/17
#21First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/22/18 at 12:13am
Jamming to this all day. Sounds exactly like it did when I was in the theater. The one thing? I really wish Norm Lewis was just cast as Agwe because I would have another recording of his gorgeous voice. Wonderful job on this recording though to anyone involved!
#22First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/22/18 at 9:27pm
I agree Norm Lewis seemed a bit stronger than what I hear on this recording. Is it me or is Tamyra Gray a little bit more intense/darker in "Forever Yours" (Reprise) than the person on this recording? Maybe it was different in person.
"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
#23First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/22/18 at 11:44pm
The Human Heart has always been a favorite broadway song of mine for as long as I can remember.... I can’t believe how this production elevated the song even more - to such an ethereal place that only the great Lea Salonga can deliver. I believe it wasn’t a stretch for this legendary actress to play Erzulie.... with her heavenly voice - she IS a goddess.
Fan123
Broadway Star Joined: 8/30/08
#24First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/23/18 at 6:58am
Token grumpy-pants post for this thread: I wasn't blown away by the album. The cast sounds good, but I was hoping the new orchestrations would be more different, in an interesting way, compared to the originals. And it seems a little weird to me that the last part of the climactic Ti Moune's Choice scene wasn't recorded, as it was for the previous albums. I mentioned in the previews thread that I have reservations about how that scene ends, but like it or hate it, it's a pretty vital moment in the show as written.
funaviator
Swing Joined: 7/11/17
#25First Listen OOTI New Cast Recording
Posted: 2/23/18 at 7:42am
Where do you download/buy this at?
