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Post by Peter on Jan 14, 2023 23:11:41 GMT
Had a weird compulsion to dig out ‘The Fields of Ambrosia’ earlier this week, having not thought about the show at all in the past 20 years…
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Post by Fleance on Jan 15, 2023 0:28:19 GMT
Bashville (Denis King/Benny Green), a lovely old-fashioned British score for the first show I ever saw at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, 1983. Based on Shaw's The Admirable Bashville.
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Jan 15, 2023 3:51:43 GMT
Had a weird compulsion to dig out ‘The Fields of Ambrosia’ earlier this week, having not thought about the show at all in the past 20 years… The Fields of Ambrosia...Where everyone knows ya! I was talking about that show just the other day to someone. I was really surprised to find it on Spotify. There is some great music in there, inc. the VERY overwrought song 'Alone' Which was a very popular auduition piece back in the day and probably also the only number in a musical that comes from a charactern just after he's been raped in prison. ButI find Christine Andreas' voice hard to listen to. That vibrato...
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Post by fiyerorocher on Jan 16, 2023 9:23:11 GMT
I discovered Stranger Sings! has an off-Broadway cast recording so that's the soundtrack to my travel on public transport for the next week sorted
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2023 10:40:15 GMT
Not a cast recording, but the new Sondheim CD from Liz Callaway, To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim.
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Post by Mark on Jan 16, 2023 10:45:18 GMT
Between the Lines which has just been released. Wonderful score
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Post by anthony40 on Jan 18, 2023 14:49:16 GMT
There's a lovely bonus track of Banderas singing What I Did For Love with Nine co-star Laura Benanti It does sound lush and beautiful and nice to hear Benanti singing in Spanish. Shame I don't speak Spanish!
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Post by anthony40 on Jan 18, 2023 14:51:56 GMT
The youtube algorithm offered me a documentary from the early eighties of Leonard Bernstein conducting West Side Story with Jose Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa. It was fascinating to see the man himself directing the orchestra and the cast. Of course both leads were decades too old for it but oh my, Jose Carreras singing as Tony was stunning. Kiri was ok but apart from being too old actually sounded too old too, or maybe too ‘womanly’ for Maria. Then I went and listened to it again on Spotify. The album sold massively at the time apparently. I've seen this
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 18, 2023 15:08:26 GMT
The youtube algorithm offered me a documentary from the early eighties of Leonard Bernstein conducting West Side Story with Jose Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa. It was fascinating to see the man himself directing the orchestra and the cast. Of course both leads were decades too old for it but oh my, Jose Carreras singing as Tony was stunning. Kiri was ok but apart from being too old actually sounded too old too, or maybe too ‘womanly’ for Maria. Then I went and listened to it again on Spotify. The album sold massively at the time apparently. I remember that from when the BBC first broadcast it. It was telling to see how Bernstein had to work so hard with Careers who struggled with the lyrics over and over again. Tatiana Troyanos was a fantastic Anita. Kurt Ollman was great too. But Bernstein's conducting is sublime. It will never be surpassed. I bought the twin cassette set whilst on a school exchange trip to Germany and listened to it over and over and over. And the success of this meant that we also got the recording of Candide with Bernstein conducting which is still my favourite version of the score.
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Post by anthony40 on Jan 18, 2023 16:04:37 GMT
For anyone interested, it can be seen here
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Post by alece10 on Jan 18, 2023 17:06:08 GMT
For anyone interested, it can be seen here I've got the CD of this somewhere around the house.
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Jan 20, 2023 3:40:31 GMT
Bradley Cooper's film 'Maestro' in which he plays Bernstein is out on Netflix later this year. He's unrecognisable under all that latex.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Feb 22, 2023 20:39:13 GMT
Bonnie & Clyde. I'd only heard How 'Bout A Dance before.
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Post by danb on May 19, 2023 18:57:53 GMT
‘35mm’ - my sons uni group are taking it to Edinburgh this Summer so I’ve been getting used to and am loving it.
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Post by adamkinsey on May 19, 2023 20:33:26 GMT
Donnybrook. Flop show but contains a fab song, Sad Was The Day, which Sondheim included on his Songs I Wish I'd Written list.
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Post by sam22 on May 20, 2023 7:52:06 GMT
Operation Mincemeat 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Post by theatremiss on May 20, 2023 8:36:33 GMT
Choir of Man
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Post by frankubelik on May 20, 2023 13:51:59 GMT
Kimberley Akimbo. Donnybrook has the superb Susan Johnson and the duet "I Wouldn't Bet One Penny" is a favourite.
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Post by jacob on May 20, 2023 14:14:42 GMT
to no one’s surprise, I’m currently spinning my Wicked OBC recording 15th Anniversary vinyl
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Post by FairyGodmother on Jun 12, 2023 20:47:02 GMT
They're Playing Our Song — after my Bond concert last night I felt like a bit of Marvin Hamlisch.
Gemma Craven sounds fab, but nothing like she does in The Slipper and The Rose! I had to check it was the same Gemma Craven.
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Post by alece10 on Jun 13, 2023 17:07:09 GMT
They're Playing Our Song — after my Bond concert last night I felt like a bit of Marvin Hamlisch. Gemma Craven sounds fab, but nothing like she does in The Slipper and The Rose! I had to check it was the same Gemma Craven. I remember seeing this at the Menier years ago with Connie Fisher (after her role as Maria in Sound of Music). Apart from the title song, which I knew anyway, I can't remember any of the songs. Maybe time to revisit the recording.
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Post by danb on Jun 13, 2023 17:55:46 GMT
No new ear worms presented themselves at ‘Groundhog Day’, so I’ve been listening to the new McFly album and Bring Me The Horizon after their blistering set on Friday at Download. They were seriously fantastic. I love being surprised by people you are only half familiar with and this lot put on quite the show.
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Post by imstillhere on Jun 13, 2023 20:35:43 GMT
Kimberley Akimbo
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Post by edelweiss on Jun 14, 2023 12:20:55 GMT
Operation Mincemeat, and also Something Rotten which I have somehow missed up until this point. I would particularly recommend the track "A Musical" from SR if you haven't listened - try and spot all the allusions to other shows, and then go on genius.com to see which ones you've completely missed!
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Post by A.Ham on Jun 14, 2023 14:08:43 GMT
Sunset because I booked my tickets yesterday. Will be interesting hearing how different (possibly technically better?) Nicole will be vs Glenn on the CD I’ve got.
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Post by danb on Jun 14, 2023 14:47:30 GMT
Technically better perhaps, but can she act it? I seem to remember her Maureen in Rent just being her PCD sass with a layer of lipstick lesbian.
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Post by A.Ham on Jun 14, 2023 16:12:43 GMT
Technically better perhaps, but can she act it? I seem to remember her Maureen in Rent just being her PCD sass with a layer of lipstick lesbian. Haha, goodness knows. I guess we’ll find out come September. It’s highly unlikely she’ll be as good as multi-Oscar nominee and Tony winner Glenn Close though!
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Post by danb on Jun 14, 2023 18:07:59 GMT
Technically better perhaps, but can she act it? I seem to remember her Maureen in Rent just being her PCD sass with a layer of lipstick lesbian. Haha, goodness knows. I guess we’ll find out come September. It’s highly unlikely she’ll be as good as multi-Oscar nominee and Tony winner Glenn Close though! I think you’re underestimating ‘Masked Singer USA’ & ‘X Factor’ judge Nicole. If Norma needs to whoop ‘n’ holler with some ‘oh snap’ sass, she’s your gal.
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Post by A.Ham on Jun 14, 2023 18:52:23 GMT
Haha, goodness knows. I guess we’ll find out come September. It’s highly unlikely she’ll be as good as multi-Oscar nominee and Tony winner Glenn Close though! I think you’re underestimating ‘Masked Singer USA’ & ‘X Factor’ judge Nicole. If Norma needs to whoop ‘n’ holler with some ‘oh snap’ sass, she’s your gal. LOL brilliant. Made me chuckle. It’s the acting bit that’s an unknown as you pointed out. I guess time will tell how she shapes up there but Glenn sure is a hard act to follow.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Jun 14, 2023 20:51:31 GMT
They're Playing Our Song — after my Bond concert last night I felt like a bit of Marvin Hamlisch. Gemma Craven sounds fab, but nothing like she does in The Slipper and The Rose! I had to check it was the same Gemma Craven. I remember seeing this at the Menier years ago with Connie Fisher (after her role as Maria in Sound of Music). Apart from the title song, which I knew anyway, I can't remember any of the songs. Maybe time to revisit the recording. There aren't loads of songs, but If He Really Knew Me is really lovely. Some really nice piano too.
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