The Music Man : 2022 Broadway Cast Recording!

[jo]

It looks like this is a new Amazon policy (where they offer free shipping at a certain total price level for the order) -- MAXIMUM OF 4 CD-audio order per delivery address.

So, it is not a restriction only on THE MUSIC MAN but also for others?

Maybe they are blocking any attempts of some enterprising secondary seller to take advantage of the new pricing policy at Amazon?

Jo

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No Grammy nomination for The Music Man cast recording.

“Caroline, or Change,” John Cariani, Sharon D Clarke, Caissie Levy and Samantha Williams, principal vocalists; Van Dean, Nigel Lilley, Lawrence Manchester, Elliot Scheiner and Jeanine Tesori, producers; Jeanine Tesori, composer; Tony Kushner, lyricist (New Broadway Cast)

“Into the Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording),” Sara Bareilles, Brian d’Arcy James, Patina Miller and Phillipa Soo, principal vocalists; Rob Berman and Sean Patrick Flahaven, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist) (2022 Broadway Cast)

“MJ the Musical,” Myles Frost and Tavon Olds-Sample, principal vocalists; David Holcenberg, Derik Lee and Jason Michael Webb, producers (Original Broadway Cast)

“Mr. Saturday Night,” Shoshana Bean, Billy Crystal, Randy Graff and David Paymer, principal vocalists; Jason Robert Brown, Sean Patrick Flahaven and Jeffrey Lesser, producers; Jason Robert Brown, composer; Amanda Green, lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)

“Six: Live on Opening Night,” Joe Beighton, Tom Curran, Sam Featherstone, Paul Gatehouse, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, producers; Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast)

“A Strange Loop,” Jaquel Spivey, principal vocalist; Michael Croiter, Michael R. Jackson, Charlie Rosen and Rona Siddiqui, producers; Michael R. Jackson, composer and lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)

Jo

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Why the hate for TMM? Saturday Night a better Grammy bet? MJ the Musical?

How can they ignore the revival show whose original show won the very first Grammy? And this revival score did not change much of the score compared to that first recording? And this has more lush orchestrations and even included dialog to make the show more appreciated from a listener's point of view.

Or did they not want to give Hugh Jackman a second Grammy??

Why all the hate towards this revival --

*No Tony - yet it has outpaced any other revival for audience love ( if box office and social media comments are indicators)

*No Tony for Hugh Jackman -- how can a Michael Jackson copycat have performed better than how Hugh Jackman has pleased audiences and with all triple-threat talent on full display?

*The cast recording is a fuller recording, includes dialog and dance sequence music - is that not at all appreciated. It did score high on the charts when the MP3 was originally released.


Hmm...

Jo

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Nov 15, 2022 19:03:59 GMT -5 jo said:

Why the hate for TMM? Saturday Night a better Grammy bet? MJ the Musical?

How can they ignore the revival show whose original show won the very first Grammy? And this revival score did not change much of the score compared to that first recording? And this has more lush orchestrations and even included dialog to make the show more appreciated from a listener's point of view.

Or did they not want to give Hugh Jackman a second Grammy??

Why all the hate towards this revival --

*No Tony - yet it has outpaced any other revival for audience love ( if box office and social media comments are indicators)

*No Tony for Hugh Jackman -- how can a Michael Jackson copycat have performed better than how Hugh Jackman has pleased audiences and with all triple-threat talent on full display?

*The cast recording is a fuller recording, includes dialog and dance sequence music - is that not at all appreciated. It did score high on the charts when the MP3 was originally released.


Hmm...

Jo

Disappointing and annoying.   Even on BWW chat some are saying they are surprised Mr. Saturday Night made it into a sixth slot instead of this.  It's as if  theater/music critics/voters trying to promote some kind of negativity towards this show.  A complete 180 from  box office and audience responses as Jo mentions above.

[jo]

The CD is now on release!

Music Man Original Broadway Cast Recording
Sutton Foster Hugh Jackman Format: Audio CD

4.8 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

#1 New Release in Musical Soundtracks & Scores

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You can actually have both the MP3 or the Audio CD

No word on the vinyl release yet?


Jo

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I saw somewhere that the CD sold at the Winter Garden has been priced at $ 35? When buying it at Amazon will only cost you $ 24 plus shipping ( if required) -- if one orders 2 copies, one need not pay any shipping costs.

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I would like cover art that celebrates the appeal of Prof Harold Hill to both Marian the Librarian and the many kids of River City drawn to his Minuet In G. To me, that is the essence of THE MUSIC MAN - a Pied Piper to those not moored to any particular social institution but in so wooing them restored the town's sense of community!

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A review from Broadwayworld --

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This brings us to this new release. THE MUSIC MAN (THE 2022 BROADWAY CAST RECORDING) - produced by Robert Sher, whose uber sound booth production makes for an album with absolutely zero sense of the theatrical about it, will not abolish any memory of any recordings that have gone before, either of stage or film. Neither is it the "disaster" that TIkTok's armchair expert, young Finian Hackett (@fintothewoods) says it is. This new album is just merely another brick in THE MUSIC MAN's wall. It neither enthralls nor repels. The casting of mezzo belter Foster necessitated the revoicing of the high notes of her predecessors (super sopranos Barbara Cook & Rebbeca Luker) and there are those that have "history" with the show that will miss the delight of those kinds of trills. But then, on balance, Mr. Jackman, with his romantic tenor, finds his way to actually singing many more of the notes on the page than his predecessors (The Great Robert Preston & Craig Bierko) did in their time under the drum major's hat. For example, in TROUBLE (which Preston turned into an early ancestor of today's rap music & Bierko copied) Hugh has just as much fun running up and down the musical staff with some actual notes. The acting, by all concerned, both in the music and in the generous portions of the book dialogue included here, is naturally superb. Jayne Houdyshell (Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn), Jefferson Mays (Mayor Shinn), and Marie Mullen (Mrs. Paroo) are giving wonderfully comic performances, and we praise the choice to include so many of their talkie bits. The chemistry between Foster and Jackman is apparent in the recording and, so, must've been a delight to see live in the theatre. There are also moments when Foster does indeed call upon a heretofore almost unheard upper register over which she shows fine control. Also, the additional track of the cut barbershop quartet song, IT'S YOU, sung by the marvelous grouping of Phillip Boykin, Eddie Korbich, Daniel Torres, and Nicholas Ward is a real bonus and so is the extra extended cut of Jackman and Shuler Hensley's clowning fun on THE SADDER BUT WISER GIRL FOR ME.


Finally, one must consider this recording's influence out in the world. Since the first sound recordings of The Broadway Musicals were made, one of the groups most definitely impacted by them has been young people... Children even whose parents allowed them to wear out vinyl albums & tapes, or blow out speakers listening to EPs, etc to hear the best of Lloyd-Webber, Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown, and Alan Menken. Herein the creators took care in the show to make needed alterations to remove some of the 1950s societal mindsets. Gone are the lyrics in SHIPOOPI about brazen young girls behaving badly, replaced by words that admonish young boys to learn some R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Now, Bobby was one of those little queer boys out in the hinterlands gobbling up cast albums left and right, dancing about the living room and singing at the top of a weedy little voice. As such the omission of the taps from the additional finale music where, on stage, Foster and Jackman busted out their tap shoes, leaves the cut flat and dry. It is surprising, since producer Sher gave the world the cast album of SUGAR BABIES with loads and loads of Ann Miller's tappings, that he would just skip it for this one 2-minute/53-second cut. There will be no little'uns out there slapping their feet on the ground dreaming of creating those rhythms on the big stage - sad because as you all know "tappy make me happy." It is the children that carry the memories of these recordings with them forever and either become lifelong fans OR actual participants in the Broadway musical theatre. Will this recording be the sort that will create that foundation for the future? Sure, why not Bobby says if this is their MUSIC MAN, the first one that introduces them to the show - you bet. There is much that is praiseworthy here and only curmudgeons will turn away from it completely, and, as such, we must give this one ...


3 Out Of 5 Rainbows - Let Your Kids Hear This One & The Original & Decide For Themselves

[jo]

If you check the link -- he is charging $ 7500 ( yes, $ 7500) for it


Jo