Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
#0Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:42pmOkay, what's a show that you missed seeing, but you love the cast recording? My vote: "My Fair Lady" with Rex and Julie. I would have had to been born about 20 years before my actual birthday, but...! One of my co-workers saw it in New Haven prior to its NY run and said that the audience gave a standing ovation after every song. It was a thrilling experience!
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#1re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:43pmMartin Guerre (either production). Actually, the cast recordings weren't all that great, but I really wanted to see this show.
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#2re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:43pmWell I enjoy the cast recording of A Chorus Line but never saw it on Broadway. Does that count?
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#3re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:43pm
Gypsy w/ Bernadette Peters
Cabaret
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LadyGuenevere
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/03
#4re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:44pm
Honestly, almost all of my cast recordings.
Zanna Don't is a recent one I wish I saw. Sometimes I want to just let go and see a cheesy, upbeat musical.
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#5re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:44pm
gypsy- current revival
urinetown
bat boy
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PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:47pm
We'll go for more recent ones. I could list shows for days that I would have loved to have seen.
"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" - '99 Cast
"Annie Get Your Gun" - '99 Revival
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" OBC
GretchaSketh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/9/04
#7re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:48pmI saw Martin Guerre in London. I Love the music and thought it was a good show. But it did seem to be a lot like Les Mis (not the plot but the music) did anyone else feel the same way?
#8re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:56pmThe score definitely had more in common with Les Miz than Miss Saigon (the other Boublil-Schonberg musical), obviously, but I think the orchestration had a lot to do with it. Martin Guerre's music is somewhat more intimate and subdued than Les Miz's sweeping score. A good recording to check is the 1999 one; the orchestrations are different (not as good, IMO), much more minimalist, but it exemplifies the musical difference between the two shows more.
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HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
Updated On: 7/27/04 at 09:56 PM
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#9re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:01pmquite alot...living in rural central nj doesn't make it too easy to get to ny all too often (luckily i'm moving out to nyc for college so i can see more than a show per year) but most notably damn yankees w/ victor garber.... i had never even heard of b'way when that came out
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ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#10re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:02pmoh i forgot YAGMCB!
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#11re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:04pm
Lippa's The Wild Party
The Last 5 Years
Parade
The OBC of Rent
Sweeney Todd
I could really go on foever.
#13re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:27pmGypsy (with bernadette), Flower Drum Song (Lea salonga), and Caroline, or change (because i wont be in the city for a LOOONG time and i can only see it if there's a tour)
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#14re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:28pmAlmost every cast recording I own falls under this category, but as of this moment I think City of Angels and A Chorus Line are the ones I'd love to see the most. Both with their original casts.
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#15re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:28pm
All of my cast recordings are of shows that I haven't seen except for Rent, Assassins (the original, but I'm getting the new one soon), Wicked, and Little Shop of Horrors (the original, but I'm NOT getting the new one any time soon 
). I would have loved to see any of the others I have.
BakersWife3
Chorus Member Joined: 5/3/04
#16re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:29pm
Parade
Wild Party (Broadway)
Gypsy revival
Sweeny Todd
Into the Woods (original)...love the video...wish i could have seen it live
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They will not protect you the way that they should.
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BakersWife3
Chorus Member Joined: 5/3/04
#17re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:31pmack! forgot Ragtime....i absolutly love the OBC and even had tickets to the show but had to go on a band trip (blasted band...) oh well, water under the bridge now
Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood.
They will not protect you the way that they should.
~Into the Woods
"There is no plague! You are trying to raise cows on the side of a MOUNTAIN!!!" ~Meredith Parker, Bat Boy
Chorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:37pmTHE GOSPEL AT COLONUS
#19re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:05pmpretty much every recording I have......I've seen lots of tours and a handful of bway shows but I don't get to go to New York all the time so it's hard.
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#20re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:11pm
TABOO it has to be for me =D
-CJ
#21re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:25pm
side show
titanic
last five years
sweeney todd
#22re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:28pmWish I had seen Camelot and Peter Pan - (Sandy Duncan) to name two.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#23re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:36am
Tick, Tick....BOOM!
The Last 5 Years
#24re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!
Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:40amCarrie The Musical
