HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#3HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:04pm
While this score may not be one of my favorites (mostly because it's incomplete), I am glad this incredible cast will be preserved on an album.
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#4HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:08pm
I'd love to hear that ballad again.
#5HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:08pm
Very pleasing news. I don't even care if the score is good or not, I just want the chance to hear it.
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#6HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:13pm
I wonder if they’ll be recording some scenes and scoring from the second act? Otherwise it’ll be a very short recording.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 1/8/24 at 01:13 PM
#7HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:14pm
Is it too much to ask for unreleased or unrecorded bonus tracks from the Sondheim archives? :)
I am so pumped for this.
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#8HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:16pm
It sounds like there will be a cast recording but no filmed production, aside from the one already done for the archives.
Aside from the paranoia that stemmed mostly from the mystery surrounding the show, I always would have been surprised if there wasn’t a cast recording. I will be curious about how it’s put together, as even the first act often alternates between dialogue and song, and the second act has music even after the songs stop.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#9HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:30pm
Hooray! I mean we knew...but now we KNOW.
I'm with Kads thought, maybe this will get us more dialogue then "normal".
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#10HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 1:35pm
Even if they don’t record a lot of the act 2 dialogue, I’d have to imagine they’d preserve most of the underscoring/interludes, as they’re very Sondheim sounding. Tunick and Gemignani did a wonderful job with it.
bear88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/26/16
#11HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 2:05pm
I have learned to always take what I can get after not getting a Shuffle Along cast recording or a Company Broadway revival cast recording. Or, for that matter, the truncated Follies cast album.
That said, this is more for Sondheim completists and for people who saw Here We Are and can fill in the visual blanks. This is definitely a show that would benefit from getting to see it, especially because the producers went to the expense and effort of putting together such a top-notch stage production.
But I’ll take it.
rattleNwoolypenguin
Broadway Star Joined: 10/11/11
#12HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/8/24 at 2:27pm
The bows. I'm dying to have the music during the bows and playout.
jimmycurry01
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
#13HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/9/24 at 8:13pm
Dylan Smith4 said: "While this score may not be one of my favorites (mostly because it's incomplete), I am glad this incredible cast will be preserved on an album."
I am curious: do you feel the same about Mozart's Requiem?
KevinKlawitter
Broadway Star Joined: 1/21/20
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#15HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 3:53pm
Why are they waiting so long? They've finished recording, all that's left to do is mix the show, which usually only takes a little over a month. Are they going to coincide the release with Sondheim's birthday in March?
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#16HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:01pm
Alex Kulak2 said: "Why are they waiting so long? They've finished recording, all that's left to do is mix the show, which usually only takes a little over a month. Are they going to coincide the release with Sondheim's birthday in March?"
They JUST recorded and I'd rather have no release date than an initial release date that later gets pushed for whatever reason. Or they still do a surprise drop, but they probably won't just with the "final Sondheim original cast album" marketing they'll be using. Anyway... with recordings from this label, they definitely get them mixed and released quickly. According to the digital booklets... ITW was recorded from July-August and came out in September, Some Like It Hot was recorded in January and came out in March...
#17HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:18pm
We waited this long for this show to happen, I think people can wait another couple months for the album.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#18HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:55pm
Kad said: "We waited this long for this show to happen, I think people can wait another couple months for the album."
Exactly. To be a Sondheim fan for almost 20 years now (‘only’) and for it to be the first time I was actually able to see a ‘new’ Sondheim show, I personally can wait a few extra months hehe.
"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
#19HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:57pm
Merrily had two release dates. It dropped on streaming out of the blue, then the physical release followed a couple of months later. Might this be the same?
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#20HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 4:59pm
To buy the physical copy, you’re going to have to go to multiple stores- and when you finally find it, you can’t go home.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#21HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:02pm
Better that than resort to Amazon.
Beyoncé is not an ally. Actions speak louder than words, Mrs. Carter. #Dubai #$$$
AnythingYouDo
Chorus Member Joined: 5/28/19
#22HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:25pm
The video seems to confirm that the exit music will be included, which I'm thrilled about.
#23HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/10/24 at 5:35pm
That was also my takeaway, which I’m very excited about!
Fordham2015
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/17
#24HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/11/24 at 10:01am
Sondheim's birthday (March 22) is a Friday this year. Just saying...
WindyNewYorker
Swing Joined: 10/22/23
#25HERE WE ARE heads to the recording studio
Posted: 1/11/24 at 12:54pm
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