Something's Afoot - 2020 Studio Recording

[MrsSallyAdams]

Posted: 12/31/20 at 6:25am

Something's Afoot has at last received a cast album. The musical Agatha Christie spoof had a brief Broadway run in 1976 and became a staple of community theaters since.

The cast is listed as: Susie Blake, Sally Ann Triplett, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Julie Atherton, Graham Bickley, Scott Hunter, Daniel Boys, Keith Merrill, Gordon Griffin, Stuart Pendred, and Tony winner Jim Dale (in a non-singing cameo.)

The album is full of spoiler filled dialogue. It brings back fond memories of a production I appeared in ages ago. I was a baritone in a tenor role and had to option down on my high notes. The album performer has no such challenge.

https://www.playbill.com/article/sally-ann-triplett-susie-blake-daniel-boys-jim-dale-featured-on-somethings-afoot-recording

[MrsSallyAdams]

Posted: 12/31/20 at 6:46am

Though some songs, like "You Fell Out of the Sky," are set ups for visual gags that an album cannot capture. (Someone's trying to drop a chandelier on her as she dances.)

[Owen22]

Posted: 12/31/20 at 11:32am

In my youth I saw the show a couple of times in community theater... but am I dreaming or was there a Showtime presentation with Jean Stapleton and, this seems wrong but... Andy Gibb?

[MrsSallyAdams]

Posted: 12/31/20 at 12:45pm

You are correct. It aired in 1982. Clips are floating about YouTube.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362164/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

[ARTc3]

Posted: 1/4/21 at 2:58pm

I stumbled into this show on Broadway many years ago. I had nothing to do and the seats at TKTS were close orchestra center, so I thought I'd give it a try. Wow! Years later, I drove up to Goodspeed to see their production. It was good, but the Broadway version is what I really remember.