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Post by lovelydelirium on Jan 18, 2008 17:36:39 GMT -5
y'know what baffles me? people who only collect cast recordings from Broadway and West End (i.e. only in English..pff ) and still have lists that are like, 600 recordings long. THAT'S obsession, crazy obsession... -Ronnie gee, maybe it's because some people only speak English and don't want to listen to stuff in languages they don't understand? Actually, yeah, that is why I only have stuff in English. And yes, my collection is close to 1000 CDs of Broadway/West End/off-Broadway/Fringe/Concept CDs... While I don't have quite that many, I also only have stuff in English. I know English. I understand English. I know a few words of Hebrew and I know high school French. Why listen to things that I can't make sense of? Maybe the meoldies are pretty, and if I spoke the language I'm sure the lyrics to many shows are just as good as English shows, but I don't speak the language.
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Post by Nene on Jan 18, 2008 17:38:32 GMT -5
y'know what baffles me? people who only collect cast recordings from Broadway and West End (i.e. only in English..pff ) and still have lists that are like, 600 recordings long. THAT'S obsession, crazy obsession... -Ronnie gee, maybe it's because some people only speak English and don't want to listen to stuff in languages they don't understand? Actually, yeah, that is why I only have stuff in English. And yes, my collection is close to 1000 CDs of Broadway/West End/off-Broadway/Fringe/Concept CDs... There are massive amounts of of musicals in English. It is very easy to obtain a large collection. It's not an obsession. There is also no problem with listening to only stuff you understand. Lyrics are an important aspect of music, especially musical theatre since it is what tells the story; and there are many people who enjoy being able to understand them. Just like there are many people who enjoy listening to things they don't understand.
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Post by scarlet on Jan 18, 2008 18:49:19 GMT -5
Oh, and actually, yes, it is an obsession on my part. I want EVERYTHING that plays on a stage to be recorded (legally, not bootleg, please) and I want to own them all.
Oh, and below is part of my collection (it's what's on my iPod) and I am not listing when I own multiples.
25th Annual Putnam county Spelling Bee 1776 42nd Street 110 in the Shade A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum Aida (both concept and OBCR) All Shook Up Altar Boyz Always Amour Annie Get your gun Anna Karenina Apple Tree Aspects of love Assassins (original and revival) At the Mayflower (concept CD) Ave Q Baby Bare (demo CD and complete) Barry Manilow Scores Bat Boy Beautiful Game Beauty and the Beast Bells are Ringing (revival) Big Big River Billy Elliott Blackbeard (concept CD) Blood Brothers Bombay Dreams Boy from Oz Brain from Planet X Bright Lights Big City (concept) Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk Brooklyn Bubbly Black Girl Bugsy Malone Busker Alley By Jeeves Camelot Candide Capeman Caroline or Change Cats Chess Chicago Children Of Eden Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chorus line City of Angels Civil War Class Act Closer to Heaven Color Purple Company Confidence Man Copacabana Crazy for You Curtains d**n Yankees Dessa Rose Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Dream True Dreamgirls (movie soundtrack) Drowsy Chaperone Eating Raoul Edward Scissorhands Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens Evening Primrose Evil Dead Evita Fame Fantasticks Fiddler Finian's Rainbow Flower Drum Song Footloose Forbidden Broadway (all available CDs) Fosse Frogs Full Monty Godspell Grail The Rock Musical (concept) Grease Great American Trailer Park Grey Gardens (off-Broadway and broadway) Guys and Dolls Hair Hairspray Heathcliff High Fidelity High Society How to Succed I love you, you're perfect, now change Imperfect Chemistry (Original off-Broadway) In My Life (demo CD) Into the Woods The Iron Man: A musical (concept) Jekyll and Hyde (original, broadway and resurrection) Jane Eyre JCS Jersey Boys Johnny Guitar Joseph.... Journey to the West Kat and the Kings King David concert King and I Kiss me kate Kiss of the Spider Woman La Cage Last 5 Years Last Session Last Starfighter Legally Blonde Les Mis The Life The Likes of Us Lion King Little Shop Little Women Lone Star Love Love Musik Maddie Mame Mamma Mia Man of No Importance Marie Christine Martin Guerre Mary Poppins Masada Menopause the Musical Mimi Le Duck (demo CD) Miss Saigon Music Man The Musical of musicals the musical My Fair Lady My Favorite Year Mystery of Edward Drood Napeleon the musical (demo) Needfire Never gonna dance (demo) A New Brain The New Picasso (concept) Night in the Old Marketplace Nine Notre Dame de Paris Oklahoma Oliver Once Around the Sun Once Upon a mattress Our House Pacific Overtures Pajama Game People Vs. Friar Lawrence Parade Peter Pan POTO Pippin Pirate Queen Play On Prince and the Pauper Producers Ragtime Reefer Madness Rent Rob Roy the musical Rocky Horror A Saint She Ain't Saturday Night Fever Saturday Night Save the World and Find True Love Scarlet Pimpernel Sessions Seussical She Loves Me Show Boat Song and Dance Side Show Songs for a new world Sound of Music Spamalot Spitfire grill Spring Awakening State fair Starlight Express Steel Pier Striking Twelve Summer of 42 Sundown Sunset Blvd Sweeney Todd Sweet Charity Sweet Smell of Success Taboo Tale of 2 Cities Tarzan Thoroughly Modern Millie Thou Shalt Not Tick, tick, boom Titanic [Title of Show] Tommy Transmitter Man: A radio Play Triumph of Love Two Gentlemen of Verona Urinetown Victor/Victoria We will rock you Wedding Singer West Side Story Whistle Down the Wind Wicked Wild Party Witches of Eastwick The Wiz The Wizard of Oz Woman in White Wonderful Town Xanadu You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Young Frankenstein Z: The Masked Musical Zanna Don’t Zombie Prom
On order-- Little Mermaid, Ring of Fire, newest Forbidden Broadway, Happy Days, Hero- the rock opera, LOTR, Theseus.
oh, and i checked the bookshelves last night and here's some I missed- Buddy Jolson Jolson and Company
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Post by Valjean87 on Jan 18, 2008 18:55:18 GMT -5
Updated a few stuff here and there, ;D!
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Post by dorothyzbornakfan on Jan 19, 2008 13:59:24 GMT -5
y'know what baffles me? people who only collect cast recordings from Broadway and West End (i.e. only in English..pff ) and still have lists that are like, 600 recordings long. THAT'S obsession, crazy obsession... -Ronnie gee, maybe it's because some people only speak English and don't want to listen to stuff in languages they don't understand? Actually, yeah, that is why I only have stuff in English. And yes, my collection is close to 1000 CDs of Broadway/West End/off-Broadway/Fringe/Concept CDs... I love every musicals but mostly collect OBC(pitty that Phantom was only recorded with the London cast because the Broadway Cast was the same 3 leads and that would be pretty stupid to release one with them again with the new supporting cast), and usually OST's of movies that I love plus complete recordings(the 3 CD of Show Boat the way it was made during the OBC in 1927), is a great one as well. Depends on taste, sooner or later I want to try a foreign Musical, any recommendations? ---Miranda
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 19, 2008 14:32:15 GMT -5
Depends on taste, sooner or later I want to try a foreign Musical, any recommendations? ---Miranda I definitly recomend you Rebecca from Michael Kunze and Silvester Levay. For 3 reasons: 1st - its the BEST musical ever since PotO 2nd - you probably know the story, since its based on a english book and there's also Hitchthingy film 3rd - you can get to know the musical, so you can compare it with the upcoming Broadway production (what the hell, this doesn't allow to write a directors name? Well its Hitch c o c k)
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Post by dorothyzbornakfan on Jan 19, 2008 14:51:40 GMT -5
I love Hitchc*ck's "Rebecca", my favorite film though Viven Leigh(Scarlet from Gone With The Wind), could've made a better "I" than Joan Fontane but thats personal taste, ! Lets see if I can import that album here so I can listen to it. Also, what is this "Elisabeth", is it based what I think it is, the first English Queen?
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Post by Valjean87 on Jan 19, 2008 15:12:28 GMT -5
Actually Elisabeth is about the Empress of Austria known for her beauty and intelligence. She had a sad life and was assassinated by Lucheni(an Anarchist). There is a twist though, there is a person named Death(or Der Tod in German), and all his life wanted Elisabeth since the day he drew his eyes at her(I hope I am not making this confusing). There is a synopsis on this site: www.theatre-musical.com/elisabeth.htmlOh and you can watch a sample from the making of here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=278hm5GlEekwww.youtube.com/watch?v=0wzxEjXfD00If you want to try this show out, the Original Vienna Cast which is on sale at soundofmusic.de, is the one I always recommend because of a powerhouse cast and has almost all of the songs there. You will love the leading lady who plays the Empress, she goes by the name Pia Douwes and she is like chocolate swiss cake, she is that good! Here is a link to buy it: tinyurl.com/2rqn95Ahh you will love it, its my other recommendation, !
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 19, 2008 15:46:36 GMT -5
I love Hitchc*ck's "Rebecca", my favorite film though Viven Leigh(Scarlet from Gone With The Wind), could've made a better "I" than Joan Fontane but thats personal taste, ! Lets see if I can import that album here so I can listen to it. Also, what is this "Elisabeth", is it based what I think it is, the first English Queen? Valjean made a good resume but forgot to tell you something that may help you...Elisabeth is the famouse Sissi. Sissi from the Romy Schneider films.
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Post by dorothyzbornakfan on Jan 19, 2008 15:55:27 GMT -5
Thank you Valjean, ;D!
Is that Michael Lewis, ahh I love him as Raoul! Is he on the original Vienna recording?
I got to get it and that "Der Tod" character is so Erik like that its eerie, oh the guy on the noose who is he(not the actor, the character)?
I love that song that lady sang with long Brunette hair, when the director has to shut her mouth because she is joking around, she looks like a friendly actress.
I've seen little of the Romy films(a friend brought in a DVD with that name SISSI in it), and thats the first thing that sprung into mind plus that dress that Empress wore looks like the one Christine has in the Movie PotO(which I honestly don't like, the movie not the dress).
Scary thing is, I hope I can understand whats going on, I might cheat with the synopsis, ;D!
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 19, 2008 16:09:21 GMT -5
Yes, the PotO movie used the Sissi dress for Christine. That dress is the one the real Sissi is wearing in the most famouse painting of her. wich curiously is the portrait through wich Sissi come out in the end of the 1st Act ;D
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Post by dorothyzbornakfan on Jan 19, 2008 16:44:45 GMT -5
Thats a very nice portrait of her, she looks lovely!
I must get this musical, is it on DVD? Is the cast good?
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 19, 2008 16:58:59 GMT -5
I must get this musical, is it on DVD? Is the cast good? Yes its the only Kunze/Levay show on DVD. You can get it here: www.soundofmusic-shop.de/or here musical-shop.de/details.asp?Artikelnr=10325As for the cast...it depends on the taste, but its definitly NOT the best cast. I don't like the woman playing Elisabeth and the guy playing Der Tod is not what I like Tod to be played like but he passes. the best member is definitly Else Ludwig as Sophie, Elisabeths mother-in-law.
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Post by dorothyzbornakfan on Jan 19, 2008 17:06:53 GMT -5
Ohh its beautiful that 3 Special Edition Box! I want it dearly so I can see it, and trust me I've heard worse: Dale Kristen & Rebecca Pitcher as Christine is probably not to my liking but I don't let that stop me, I just love to enjoy a good show, !
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Post by Fantasma da Opera on Jan 19, 2008 17:22:33 GMT -5
Then get the 3DVD edition. Its not expensiver as the normal edition plus you get extras with subtitles in english. the show unfortunatly isn't subtitled :s Subtitled show that I would also recomend you is the dutch musical 3 Musketeers. Great cast and amazing songs;)
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