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[Jrand74]

Thank you DR TCB for mentioning it to begin with.....you spurred me to action, and the show will be better for it.  I shall take a photo if it works.

[Jrand74]

Page Four Wig Dance.

With no pitchers.

[elmore3003]

I opened up advance orders to the castrec-l group, as I always do - and for advance orders we've broken all records - about 100 sold before we even announce.

I guess if I have to ask what that is....... I'm not in it!!        (Harrumph, etc.)

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[ChasSmith]

Some of your'all's comments about more recent recordings is bringing something to light:

I don't harbor any close identification with what newer ones sound like, as opposed to what the older ones that I really grew up with sound like.  For instance, I listened to BAT BOY quite a lot for a while, but I have no aural memory of its recorded sound.  I think it's like this with many of the recordings made over the past couple of decades.  Maybe I'm identifying too strongly with shows from the LP era, and turning part of my brain or my affection off to the later stuff just because it only comes on those little shiny discs.  Or maybe it's...something else.  I don't know.

[ChasSmith]

I opened up advance orders to the castrec-l group, as I always do - and for advance orders we've broken all records - about 100 sold before we even announce.

I guess if I have to ask what that is....... I'm not in it!!        (Harrumph, etc.)

The Cast Recording List is a subscription group. If you are interestd in becoming a member, try this link:
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/castrecl

Oh, that kind of a list!  Thanks, DR Elmore, I'll give it a try.

[ChasSmith]

I mean:  Tack.

[Jrand74]

Bra

[John G.]

TOD: What is the worst sound you've heard on an original cast recording, BK?

I have heard plenty of OBCs that I consider aurally dead, so flat that they bore the ear. Seussical was one. The recording is inert, yet I was pleasantly surprised by how vibrant and wonderful the music was when I heard it in the theater.

Bat Boy is terrible-sounding, completely dead.  And, I hate to say it, the new recording of Follies, which people are drooling over on the various boards, is not to my liking at all - recorded in a dead room, no reverb (that I can hear) added - that's how to take and orchestra of twenty-eight and make them sound like nineteen.  The vocals are dead, the dialogue is dead - when I was listening to our remixes, I'd occasionally A/B them with the first Follies release and then the new recording - it was - illuminating.

That's another thing that can kill an OCR for me--inclusion of segments of dialogue.  I son't mind a lead-in or a brief exchange.  But recordings like ANNIE 2, VICTOR/VICTORIA,  and the latest A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and FOLLIES are filled with it.  It disrupts the listening experience for me.

I know what you mean.  That Broadway Cast Album of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? didn't leave ANY room for the songs.

LOL

[Ginny]

Nancy and I went through Oxford and on to College Corner OH/IN to the cemetery where several of our ancestors are buried.  She took photographs there for some of her online genealogy friends who also have ancestors there.  Back to Oxford for lunch and now we're in Eaton, OH, looking into Preble County property records.  She keeps asking for copies, so she must be finding something good!

[bk]

Ask BK:

I am most curious as to what brought on your new found interest in Scandanavian TV shows.

It is rather fun to discover a new favorite, isn't it! And something you probably would never have imagined even caring about.

It was The Killing.  I'd read about the new one, but in trying to figure out if I wanted to invest time in it, I found it was based on a Danish series - I got it, and was pretty much hooked.  Then the same thing happened with Wallander - I was looking to see whether I wanted to watch the Branagh version, when I saw it was originally a Swedish series.  Those were the two - then I began to read up on others.

[Jrand74]

I haven't found my FOLLIES lp yet.....

[Jrand74]

Nancy and I went through Oxford and on to College Corner OH/IN to the cemetery where several of our ancestors are buried.  She took photographs there for some of her online genealogy friends who also have ancestors there.  Back to Oxford for lunch and now we're in Eaton, OH, looking into Preble County property records.  She keeps asking for copies, so she must be finding something good!

Exciting!!!

[Ron Pulliam]

I am still trying to figure out where the wig came from.....

...or when you last wore it?

[Ron Pulliam]

Underpants!

[George]

Congrats to DR GEORGE.....interesting about your secretary.....was he removed from the board completely....or just from his office?

Thanks, Jack, and sadly, he is no longer on the the board at all.  He didn't know or think to add his name for one of the officers-at-large positions in addition to secretary.  Most people did that.  The worst part is that his girlfriend DID put her name in for an officer-at-large position and she got it!  If he'd done that, he probably would've gotten it and not her.  So, the really big question is if she'll stay or not...or maybe she'll convince him to at least stay involved with the theater group.  Other previously de-elected people have stayed involved.

[FJL]

TOD: What is the worst sound you've heard on an original cast recording, BK?

I have heard plenty of OBCs that I consider aurally dead, so flat that they bore the ear. Seussical was one. The recording is inert, yet I was pleasantly surprised by how vibrant and wonderful the music was when I heard it in the theater.

Bat Boy is terrible-sounding, completely dead.  And, I hate to say it, the new recording of Follies, which people are drooling over on the various boards, is not to my liking at all - recorded in a dead room, no reverb (that I can hear) added - that's how to take and orchestra of twenty-eight and make them sound like nineteen.  The vocals are dead, the dialogue is dead - when I was listening to our remixes, I'd occasionally A/B them with the first Follies release and then the new recording - it was - illuminating.

That's another thing that can kill an OCR for me--inclusion of segments of dialogue.  I son't mind a lead-in or a brief exchange.  But recordings like ANNIE 2, VICTOR/VICTORIA,  and the latest A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and FOLLIES are filled with it.  It disrupts the listening experience for me.

I know what you mean.  That Broadway Cast Album of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? didn't leave ANY room for the songs.

Is there any way to point out that there is indeed singing in the play without sounding like  a frigging know-it-all?


Guess not.

[George]

Last night's Family Night went well....of course the man with the MOST people in the audience......whose wife had the video camera on him....walked out and promptly skipped about four pages of dialogue.

Was anyone able to get things back on track?  Or did the play continue without the revelations of the missing four pages?

I was in a local production of "Amadeus" where 15, count 'em, FIFTEEN pages were cut!  It was opening night (a very long story) and there were a couple of people whose only scenes were in those 15 pages!  They took their bows but didn't perform that night.

[George]

I opened up advance orders to the castrec-l group, as I always do - and for advance orders we've broken all records - about 100 sold before we even announce.

Great news!

[elmore3003]

TOD: What is the worst sound you've heard on an original cast recording, BK?

I have heard plenty of OBCs that I consider aurally dead, so flat that they bore the ear. Seussical was one. The recording is inert, yet I was pleasantly surprised by how vibrant and wonderful the music was when I heard it in the theater.

Bat Boy is terrible-sounding, completely dead.  And, I hate to say it, the new recording of Follies, which people are drooling over on the various boards, is not to my liking at all - recorded in a dead room, no reverb (that I can hear) added - that's how to take and orchestra of twenty-eight and make them sound like nineteen.  The vocals are dead, the dialogue is dead - when I was listening to our remixes, I'd occasionally A/B them with the first Follies release and then the new recording - it was - illuminating.

I think the new recordng of FOLLIES really sucks. I've been very critical of this second-rate revival, and the recording does nothing to put a more positive spin on it for me:  there's a lot of bad acting I never want to hear again and way too much dialogue: who decided Terri White should talk through the dance music of "Who's That Woman?" I realize that I amsetting myself up wth the dialogue on EILEEN and DEAREST ENEMY, but I feel the dialogue on FOLLIES was added to increase the recording length and justify two CDs. If I want to listyen to something beyond the OBC, I'll stick with the Papermill recording and its appendices.

[FJL]

Or was the singing just in the VIRGINIA WOOLF  film?

[George]

There is a scandel brewing with one of the two playhouses in Salem...The Bush Creek Players...they are missing a huge amount of money from their funds and the treasurer has resigned.

[George]

TOD: What is the worst sound you've heard on an original cast recording, BK?

I have heard plenty of OBCs that I consider aurally dead, so flat that they bore the ear. Seussical was one. The recording is inert, yet I was pleasantly surprised by how vibrant and wonderful the music was when I heard it in the theater.

I remember reading years ago that when CDs first happened and started to become popular, they were released with very little EQ or treble or bass adjustments (or whatever it is that makes recordings sound good) because most audiophiles had all those adjustments in their stereo equiment and would make them sound the way they wanted their recordings to sound.  But nowadays, people don't have all that equipment...just headphones, so of course, they sounded like crap.  But you'd think that producers nowadays would know this and make it sound as good as they could because there aren't the "audiophiles" today with the kind of equipment that there used to be.

[Jrand74]

Or was the singing just in the VIRGINIA WOOLF  film?

"I'm nobody's houseboy......"

"Now......"

[Jrand74]

I am off to work in the box office and then a run thru only in anticipation of tomorrow night's opening.

[Jrand74]

Whew I had the wrong song to begin with....luckily no one quoted it before I changed it.

[Jrand74]

Laterz - as my birthday twin used to say.

[FJL]

Jrand - When you are in the play, do you also work the box office for the same play at times?

[FJL]

Whew I had the wrong song to begin with....luckily no one quoted it before I changed it.

That's terrible when that happens.

[TCB]

Curious, but not really savage.  I just got an e-mail from Direct TV (which I have) saying that the all-new season of DAMAGES premieres tongiht, but that it can only be seen on Direct TV.  Why would that be?

It's only on Direct TV because FX dropped it. Direct TV decided to pick it up. You have to have Direct TV, which is not a cable station, but a pay-TV provider, to watch the show.

Oh yes, I know.  I have that big old dish taking up one third of my balcony.

[TCB]

TOD: What is the worst sound you've heard on an original cast recording, BK?

I have heard plenty of OBCs that I consider aurally dead, so flat that they bore the ear. Seussical was one. The recording is inert, yet I was pleasantly surprised by how vibrant and wonderful the music was when I heard it in the theater.

Bat Boy is terrible-sounding, completely dead.  And, I hate to say it, the new recording of Follies, which people are drooling over on the various boards, is not to my liking at all - recorded in a dead room, no reverb (that I can hear) added - that's how to take and orchestra of twenty-eight and make them sound like nineteen.  The vocals are dead, the dialogue is dead - when I was listening to our remixes, I'd occasionally A/B them with the first Follies release and then the new recording - it was - illuminating.

That's another thing that can kill an OCR for me--inclusion of segments of dialogue.  I son't mind a lead-in or a brief exchange.  But recordings like ANNIE 2, VICTOR/VICTORIA,  and the latest A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and FOLLIES are filled with it.  It disrupts the listening experience for me.

Oh chill out, Ebenezer!