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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2017 21:03:21 GMT
Madalena Alberto is eva
Max von essan and paul baker are also on the evita recording
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Post by carmella1 on Sept 2, 2017 1:33:20 GMT
Worth mentioning that Jay Records is releasing a double title Evita/Sunset Boulevard studio cast recording with Ria Jones as Norma, Matt Bogart as Joe, and Laura Pitt-Bulford as Betty. Not sure who is singing Max. Not sure who is in the Evita tracks. End of September. I am confused, I thought Danny Mac was Joe to Ria's Norma. |
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Post by ali973 on Sept 2, 2017 5:03:52 GMT
^ It's not a cast recording. It's just a studio recording akin to those they did a lot in the '90s where'd they'd assemble a studio cast with no association to a staged version.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 8:48:39 GMT
Sounds ace! I wonder whether they'll use the original orchestrations or any of the newer updates seen with the recent London/Broadway productions.
I'd love a 'b-side' instrumental version of SB!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 9:49:29 GMT
Really glad this is happening and will be interested to check it out (although have to say the ones they did in the 90s had some shocking orchestrations and sounded very cheap).
Quick question though - would they not need RUGs permission to do this? If so am surprised they've got it, is normally very hard.
Most recently the German production of Love Never Dies (the European launch of the Australian version) wished to make a cast CD (as Stage Operettenhuas do for all their big productions) but RUG would not allow it.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 2, 2017 9:55:34 GMT
It must be "highlights from" presumably?
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Post by chernjam on Sept 3, 2017 3:28:05 GMT
Really glad this is happening and will be interested to check it out (although have to say the ones they did in the 90s had some shocking orchestrations and sounded very cheap). Quick question though - would they not need RUGs permission to do this? If so am surprised they've got it, is normally very hard. Most recently the German production of Love Never Dies (the European launch of the Australian version) wished to make a cast CD (as Stage Operettenhuas do for all their big productions) but RUG would not allow it. I believe they recorded it in May 2016 - right after Sunset closed at the ENO. There was enough press about Ria Jones, and more than likely RUG didn't expect a NY revival... very interesting - now that a UK tour with Ria Jones is imminent... but that means no Cast recording from that tour |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 4, 2017 11:47:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 12:04:59 GMT
Interesting. With the exception of Facebook, all the social media links on the UK Tour website lead to the International Sunset Boulevard pages, so all the content is Broadway-based "Last Week..." / "Final Performance..." etc.
Someone needs to get updating their website.
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Post by theatreian on Sept 4, 2017 13:18:17 GMT
I must say Sunset is my favourite of all ALW scores. Have seen it multiple times, the last being with Glenn at the Colisseum.Have to say Petula Clark has been my favourite Norma. Her acting and vocals when she was in her prime in the 1990s were sublime. She is the one who has played Norma the most over the years including a long spell at the Adelphi plus toured with it in USA.
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Post by sam22 on Sept 4, 2017 17:20:49 GMT
I must say Sunset is my favourite of all ALW scores. Have seen it multiple times, the last being with Glenn at the Colisseum.Have to say Petula Clark has been my favourite Norma. Her acting and vocals when she was in her prime in the 1990s were sublime. She is the one who has played Norma the most over the years including a long spell at the Adelphi plus toured with it in USA. Which recording do you recommend? It's one of the only ALW shows I don't know and want to have a listen before I go in a few weeks. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 17:36:48 GMT
I must say Sunset is my favourite of all ALW scores. Have seen it multiple times, the last being with Glenn at the Colisseum.Have to say Petula Clark has been my favourite Norma. Her acting and vocals when she was in her prime in the 1990s were sublime. She is the one who has played Norma the most over the years including a long spell at the Adelphi plus toured with it in USA. Which recording do you recommend? It's one of the only ALW shows I don't know and want to have a listen before I go in a few weeks. Original LA Cast for me. Glenn Close. |
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Post by sam22 on Sept 4, 2017 17:44:38 GMT
Great thank you Remark, I will see if it is on Spotify or Amazon!
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Post by ali973 on Sept 4, 2017 18:00:41 GMT
I think we've had the "best recordings" conversation several times. Unfortunately there really isn't a perfect recording. The LA one is okay enough, it's the complete score, and all the leads are strong enough, with exception to Glenn Close who only works if you see her live. The London cast recoding is so badly engineered at times, it isn't the final version of the show, and the cuts are so strange. Patti LuPone's vocals are supreme. The Betty Buckley EP is gorgeous, and she's got the best vocals of all of them, but it's not complete.
I've said this once and I'll say it again- Andrew Lloyd Webber should have commissioned a London recording with either Betty Buckley or Elaine Paige opposite John Barrowman. That combination was the best one of all casts.
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Post by sam22 on Sept 4, 2017 18:06:30 GMT
Oh sorry I've missed that,thanks for the summary  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 19:45:09 GMT
I think we've had the "best recordings" conversation several times. Unfortunately there really isn't a perfect recording. The LA one is okay enough, it's the complete score, and all the leads are strong enough, with exception to Glenn Close who only works if you see her live. The London cast recoding is so badly engineered at times, it isn't the final version of the show, and the cuts are so strange. Patti LuPone's vocals are supreme. The Betty Buckley EP is gorgeous, and she's got the best vocals of all of them, but it's not complete. I've said this once and I'll say it again- Andrew Lloyd Webber should have commissioned a London recording with either Betty Buckley or Elaine Paige opposite John Barrowman. That combination was the best one of all casts. Completely agree! So annoying that the OLC isn't better engineered and complete. Despite that though I much prefer it to the LA one. LuPone the original and best and Kevin Anderson was (for me) a near perfect Joe. Glenn Close really doesn't have a recording voice. The Buckley CD also fab. As you say an EP/Buckley and Barrowman recording would have been incredible. |
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Post by steve10086 on Sept 4, 2017 21:00:22 GMT
I must say Sunset is my favourite of all ALW scores. Have seen it multiple times, the last being with Glenn at the Colisseum.Have to say Petula Clark has been my favourite Norma. Her acting and vocals when she was in her prime in the 1990s were sublime. She is the one who has played Norma the most over the years including a long spell at the Adelphi plus toured with it in USA. She was in her prime in the 1990s? Perhaps in the 1890s! |
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Post by theatreian on Sept 4, 2017 21:27:36 GMT
I saw her performance I think about 10 times and I guess you didn't. It was one of the finest musical theatre performances I have ever seen and I have seen many!! The EP with Petula singing is a great recording but I agree with other comments about the full recording.
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Post by steve10086 on Sept 4, 2017 21:35:11 GMT
I saw her performance I think about 10 times and I guess you didn't. It was one of the finest musical theatre performances I have ever seen and I have seen many!! The EP with Petula singing is a great recording but I agree with other comments about the full recording. I also saw her multiple times, but luckily I also saw LuPone, Buckley and Paige multiple times, so I can remember those while trying to forget Clark. |
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Post by danb on Sept 4, 2017 21:46:31 GMT
I guess if I had not seen Paige's phenomenal Norma beforehand, Petula would have made a perfectly serviceable one. However her voice was weak on the money notes and her delivery mannered, childlike and really annoying in places. Not a fan, soz.
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Post by wickedgrin on Sept 4, 2017 22:18:48 GMT
Petula was the worst Norma at the Adelphi IMO. Not a patch on EP or Buckley. But of course it is all subjective.
Quick Petula Clark story. I was sat outside a fish restaurant in Brighton with some friends and two women wearing sunglasses stopped to look at the menu. After rather too much wine I said rather loudly to my companions "oh look, that woman looks just like Petula Clark!" One of the women removed her sunglasses and said "I AM Petula Clark!" She was appearing in SB in London at the time. She smiled and was lovely but I just wanted the ground to swallow me up!
BUT to drag the thread back to the topic - who is going to see Sunset at the Curve Leicester at the start of the tour later this month. I am very undecided. It is a trek for me, but I love the show and the score - one of my ALW favourites but perhaps I need to keep my memories of Glenn Close and the fabulous orchestra at the Coliseum in tact! Although there is a "full" orchestra for this production apparently of 20 musicians - so it should be OK? Decisions, decisions?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2017 22:55:59 GMT
Petula was far from the worst. You obviously didnt see Rita Moreno in the part. Smaller than Elaine Paige and not a great singer either.
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Post by dazzerlump on Sept 4, 2017 23:28:51 GMT
I really enjoyed Kathryn Evans, It was a different take on the role and she sung the hell out of it. Her AIWNSG got a standing ovation the day I went, which was the only time I had ever experienced this mid show until Dreamgirls
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 4:46:39 GMT
The American premiere recording is for me the best. Its complete and Glenn Close is brilliant. The OLC has the best Jo (a role weirdly often overlooked) but Patti i find almost unlistenable. The Canadian recording has the worst Joe and the radio concert recording with Petula Clark, Michael Ball and Emma Williams is dire (Emma is a great Betty but Michael Ball and Petula are awful)
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