I listened to a little of the Dolly album - don't really understand the necessity of new orchestrations by Larry Hochman. And like all cast albums today, it sounds a little dead, they don't have a clew as to how to mix vocals, and the brass over on the right consistently verges on begin out of tune. When you record in a dead room, which they clearly did (and which all normal recording studios pretty much are) you HAVE to add natural reverb and air - just listen to any classic Columbia cast album - that's why those sound so different and so amazing - and of course all of the ones I did tried to do exactly that and I think we were pretty successful. Someone had put my Dolly on You Tube and I was listening to it and despite a sometimes anemic string section, it sounds pretty damn good.
