SA cd?
SA cd?
#2re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 2:06pmIt seems to me that the Spring Awakening CD was made in a hurry. Considering most of the harmony's in the group songs are different in the actual show.
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#3re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 2:46pmSA's cd was made before the show opened on Broadway. Many of the CD's harmonies and lyrics were how the show started off during previews.
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#4re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 3:10pmExactly. It's a bummber because the recording doesn't do ANY of their voices justice.
I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.
#5re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 4:10pmI did not know that
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#6re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 4:18pmThe Spring Awakening cast album is very poorly produced. I don't like the score at all so it would never be one of my favorite albums to begin with, but I did find the cast rather good and it doesn't do their voices justice at all. Oh well. It'll wind up winning the Grammy anyway.
#7re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 4:26pmIf you have an early hard-copy of the CD, there is also a misprint in regards to the cast list.
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#8re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/26/08 at 7:50pmuhh how could the producers make a mistake with the cast..it really isn't all that big
bluetuna
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#9re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 3:53amTom Deckman did an early reading. I don't know how they didn't catch something like this, however.
dramamama611
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#10re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 7:20am
Yes it is JBW actually singing Hanschen.
Gideon Glick was the original Ernst left in Sept of 07 for school at NYU and picked up to do "little" Speech & Debate (which is kind of ironic since that has now been extended 2x)
AND two songs are reversed in Act II. (That drove me nuts for a while.)
And really: how do the producers (or whomever is responsible) NOT catch the JBW thing?
I do not know how many cd's were manufactured w/wrong info. I got my cd about 6 months after its release and the cast's names are all listed correctly.
Another agreement: the cd does NOT give credit to the music of the show. I really miss Ilse's intro to Purple Summer.
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#11re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 12:11pm
Yes, The Guilty Ones and Don't Do Sadness are in the wrong order on the CD as well.
I feel like the cast recording was VERY rushed. Hell, I think it was released either a few days before or a few days after the show opened on Broadway. I suppose they figured people would be pissed if they couldn't get the cast recording right away.
Anyway, I guess I got my CD from the first release, because Wright isn't credited on my insert.
#12re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 2:42pm
It was never caught. I had the mp3 files for a while, and bought the CD months after it was released, and it still says Deckman.
As for the songs being out of order, I forget who, but someone said it flowed better in the order that is on the CD.
#13re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 3:42pmNot to mention the cd booklet contains a cast picture...with Mary McCann (Adult Women) and Frank Wood (Adult Men) from the Atlantic Theatre off-Broadway cast.
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"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#14re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 3:44pmI've heard from a lot of people that the CD is better than the actual show, not the reverse. I agree.
jigblob
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#15re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 6:52pmi think the show itself is WAY better than the cd, although I do like the cd as well. The biggest difference that really bothers me on the cd though is that it doesn't do lea michele enough justice vocally. her voice sounds a lot weaker but when you see the show she has much more power and her songs are even better (namely whispering and those you've known)
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#16re: SA cd?
Posted: 1/27/08 at 7:02pmHA! I've never noticed that before... how strange, not to mention irresponsible on the part of the album's producer wfor not giving JBW credit...
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