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Post by ali973 on Jan 19, 2018 13:06:34 GMT
Giving Ragtime a spin again. It's big, and played full out and keeps getting bigger. It is its 20th year anniversary since it opened on Broadway. I'm old.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 21:53:55 GMT
Today I did the housework to 'The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas' it's a show that i did many years ago and still has a place in my heart. Such a fantastic score and a great lead part in Mona. Why isn't it done more often?
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Post by ali973 on Jan 22, 2018 19:21:13 GMT
That was a great little show with a shocking number of audience in attendance when I saw it. When I got to the theatre easily at 7.20 I thought I was the only one there. There couldn't have been over 50 people when I saw it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 21:16:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 21:12:48 GMT
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Post by michalnowicki on Jan 30, 2018 8:51:48 GMT
I'm currently jumping between Heathers and Wild Party.
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Post by michalnowicki on Jan 31, 2018 11:20:24 GMT
I'm hungry for some Brian D'Arcy James (don't blame me). Anyone can recommend your favourite songs/performances?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 11:39:16 GMT
I'm hungry for some Brian D'Arcy James (don't blame me). Anyone can recommend your favourite songs/performances? Oh to be able to sing like Brian D'arcy James. His tone is gorgeous and could listen to him for hours. Shrek - Who I'd Be, Anything from Titanic, Sweet Smell Of Success - At The Fountain. Anything with him in really! Also loved him in Next To Normal recordings. |
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Post by alece10 on Jan 31, 2018 14:54:55 GMT
Dear Evan Hanson at the moment but it's all very confusing as I tunes mixed all the tracks up so I get the finale at the beginning and don't have a scooby what's going on. Nice songs and Ben Platt has a great voice.
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Post by ali973 on Jan 31, 2018 15:50:20 GMT
Why don't you just manually rearrange the tracks?
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Post by alece10 on Jan 31, 2018 16:54:02 GMT
Why don't you just manually rearrange the tracks? Had an apple tech guy try for an hour and even he couldn't do it. |
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Post by danb on Jan 31, 2018 16:58:50 GMT
Why don't you just manually rearrange the tracks? Had an apple tech guy try for an hour and even he couldn't do it. They just go back to where they were...if you can be arsed saving it as a playlist then rearrange it to your preferred order thats ok but some musicals run through and this puts a gap between tracks so you lose the flow. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 21:04:19 GMT
In light of the JRB gig, I've tried to give Madison County and Honeymoon in Vegas another try. Love JRB, but these have never really gotten under my skin save for a few tracks. Can't say I have much investment in the stories, and the scores seem genre pieces - not the best showcase for his talents. Think of the two, I found more to enojy in Madison County.
Lena Hall's second Obsessed dropped - Peter Gabriel this time. There's an acoustic Sledgehammer, which is slightly country, and yet at the same time has an intro that sounds like Boogie On Reggae Woman.
And have loved Buddy Rich's West Side Story suite, of which there are many jawdropping performances.
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Post by michalnowicki on Feb 6, 2018 11:41:58 GMT
Lena Hall's second Obsessed dropped This Obsessed project is really cool. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 11:54:10 GMT
I've been listening to Moulin Rouge today as choir have given us 'Come What May' to sing. Rather intense University flashbacks when this was one of the only CDs I had with me...
Also I've been listening to 'I love you because' in my car I went through a phase of listening to it every morning and despite having not listened to it in nearly a decade my sing-along is near enough perfect still haha.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 21:07:22 GMT
I've been listening to the Kinky Boots OBC recording and there's some songs in it that I recognise from the radio that I had no clue were in the show. (Just Be, The History of Wrong Guys).
I actually think I'm going to love Kinky Boots and I'm glad they picked Edinburgh for the Christmas venue on tour this year.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 21:51:14 GMT
Chess. Lots of recordings... I’m surprised how good I am on the words.
Just thought I’d mention it.
Well stranger things have happened. Haven’t they?
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Post by alece10 on Feb 7, 2018 9:06:00 GMT
This week I've mainly been listening to:
Nativity the musical. Completely not the right season but there is something about Simon Lipkin singing about weeing his pants that I'm enjoying.
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Post by danb on Feb 7, 2018 9:32:19 GMT
Chess. Lots of recordings... I’m surprised how good I am on the words. Just thought I’d mention it. Well stranger things have happened. Haven’t they? But who will you play? 😛 |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 9:43:05 GMT
Chess. Lots of recordings... I’m surprised how good I am on the words. Just thought I’d mention it. Well stranger things have happened. Haven’t they? But who will you play? 😛 The one who tilts the chessboard. I've been practising lifting the (fairly heavy) dining room table and singing the "Liar! Liar!" bit at the same time. I think I've cracked it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2018 19:28:45 GMT
I've ended up this week on Eydie Gorme Sings Showstoppers, and played it through a few times as it is fun. She is vivacious. Not much in the way of characterisation, but there's a joy and an immediacy to the performances. Good selection.
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Post by tmesis on Feb 18, 2018 7:51:32 GMT
I love the score of Smike - I know it well since, in my former life as a class music teacher, I've rehearsed and MDed the music and later on, for another amateur production, played clarinet in the pit. Bizarrely for this Iain Duncan Smith was in the audience (his son was one of the 'Dotheboys'.) |
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Post by Kenneth_C on Feb 18, 2018 20:02:51 GMT
 I wonder who will be cast for the US tour next year. It will be hard to equal this cast. |
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Post by ali973 on Feb 18, 2018 20:27:30 GMT
So now they're apparently selling a new cast recording of Love Never Dies on the US tour. It's a live recording of the Australian cast. I'm not sure if it's just a rip of the Australian DVD, but it's interesting because they never said they'd release one and I haven't seen it listed before.
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Post by thesortinghat on Feb 19, 2018 15:32:18 GMT
I've been listening to Waitress all weekend, and now I can't get it out of my head!
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