I'm finally listening to the new recording of Follies. Not my style, I have to say, but this seems to be what people want these days - small, tiny-sounding dry as dirt recording ambience. It's like a radio drama - I miss Goddard Lieberson. The trick with cast albums is to get the cast to replicate their performances and make it work for the ear. What you don't want is for them to suddenly act like they're doing a tiny little intimate film because it sucks the theatricality out of everything. This is THEATRE, not radio.
