“Every woman in Hollywood wants you; you with your good hair and your no money” The way I CACKLED at that quip, while simultaneously realizing that Joe Gillis is basically who TLC was singing about 😂
I LOVE these reaction videos - your joy, enthusiasm and energy is infectious, the B&W flat walk, the spotlights, the dolly, jacket had me in laughing out loud - I love this score and seen it performed many many times with lots of Norma's - but with this commentary you just completely opened it up for me - so much going on in the music I had no idea....thank you Mickey Jo. One of these days I'll bump into you at the theatre and will thank you in person.
Oh MIckeyJo - thank you for such a gleeful romp through this *wow* recording. You just made my day here in rainy, storm, gloomy Oregon! You outdid yourself with this video - I'm certainly your biggest state-side fan. Cheers!
Never really understood the hype / was interested in sunset until I downloaded this album Friday and it’s just stunning. I’m absolutely hooked and had it on repeat all weekend 🙏🏻 gutted I didn’t catch it in london
Love these videos - especially when the plushes get to join in! 😅 Have been really intrigued to listen to this version. I saw Sunset Boulevard in London with Elaine Paige and Alex Hanson many moons ago, and find myself coming back to listen to the show time and time again. I’m definitely going to have to get this cast recording now, it sounds amazing!
I desperately need someone to cast David Thaxton as Sweeney Todd. (can you IMAGINE a Jamie Lloyd Sweeney? These two DO work well together, Thaxton‘s Olivier was for Sondheim‘s Passion after all, directed by Lloyd… a girl can dream…)
@@emhu2594 Is it a new production though or is it the remount from the Regents Park Open Air Theatre that was meant to happen during Covid? If so thats fine but I think he needs to now think about staying away from cameras since he did it so well with Sunset. I've always thought someone needs to do a similar thing to Sunset and do something to a show like Whistle Down the Wind (or better still CHESS - yes I know its very problematic and probably the worst time to do it what with the war in Ukraine but I truly believe someone needs to look at Chess and do a radical staging similar to Sunset).
I grew up with Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Joseph" (first in German). I always listened to it at my grandparents' place, and that's where my love for musicals started. The one musical I never really got into was "Sunset Boulevard," but your videos changed that. I got so excited about the album, listened to all the songs on Friday, and now they're on repeat. Your reaction helped clarify the story and made me smile a lot. Just a great video with awesome comments on the musical. I usually don't comment, but I've been following your videos for a while and love each one. Greetings from Düsseldorf, Germany!
I'd seen three different performances of this show. I took a younger friend to see this who is more computer literate and technically more savvy than I and we were both blown away by the performances and concepts displayed in this show. Your reaction encapsulated the Savoy show very well. My CD of the soundtrack arrived this morning and I will now listen with your analysis in mind. Thank you
My Sunday, 11/4 matinee on Broadway was phenomenal with the 2024 Broadway Revival Cast✨ I love how this, like CATS, were reimagined and brought to life for an old and new audience telling a story that is transferable across many spectrums.
"the guy from SMASH" - I knew what you meant immediately. Thank you for the shoutout to Love Never Dies. There are a few moments in this that remind me of LND, but no one ever mentions it.
I definitely want a Grace Hodgett Young Disney Princess now, thank you. And I understand the relationship between All I Ask of You and Too Much in Love to Care, but I've been wondering if Too Much in Love to Care is a pastiche of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It stands out in the score as being more contemporaneous to the period, which I see as a commentary on the couple being "of the moment" and not living in the past/in their heads.
"Tell her it's the dentist" and "You watched a chimp funeral like a month ago" are the two funniest lines on the internet this week.😝 Best dramaturg on TH-cam. You should watch the movie if you haven't. You'll learn what speaking tubes are, and there's a lot of great meta in it (Demille as Demille, Swanson and Stroheim as silent movie legends, the actual set of Samson & Delilah, etc.). The movie was supposedly inspired when Wilder saw (silent film director extraordinaire) D.W. Griffith down and out and forgotten at the Brown Derby (an iconic restaurant in old Hollywood). The worst thing about the movie is that when Norma gets the spotlight and it's just a 5 second scene- no musical number.
For a 14 piece orchestra it sounds great. You saw the show right? what was the sets & costumes like I couldnt see it when in London cos it was very pricey lol
Micky Jo, thanks to you, I want to purchase this album. From the USA, I have followed so much about SB online never understanding this new concept and having to use my imagination comparing it to the original Broadway soundtrack. I don't think I listened to the original but perhaps 2 times. Perhaps I should revisit it. I really like some of the lush orchestrations of this new reincarnation, very Phantom-ish and a tad of the motion picture with G. Swanson. With out really understanding everything I was so happy to see Nicole win the Olivier award. I have been a fan of hers long before the world learned she was more than a Pussycat Doll (a fun group and LP). I could tell she could become a major star and now she is on Broadway and she's ecstatic about it. Thanks for walking us through the tracks and explaining. Unfortunately, there are no clips of Nicole performing. They must be looking out for everyone's cell phones. I really enjoy your critiques. Hello from the USA! I subbed last year!
What I liked about this version was just how different, but also quintessentially adjacent enough to the original this was that you totally recognize it. This is one of my favorites from ALW music-wise, simply because to me it's his most musically cohesive. There are so many motifs, vignettes, and call backs to other songs within, but also little nods to his other works. I did think some of Nicole's lines and notes were a bit too breathy, but I have to reminds myself that she's not doing Glenn Close, et al. Overall sounds very enjoyable. Makes me wish I had the chance to see it! Maybe it will be successful and get a touring production. I missed the one-off Sarah J. Block version in DC.
Love your musical analysis on this. How did you get away with no copyright strike? 😀also would you consider reviewing the Carousel recording with John Wilson Orchestra
This recording is so brilliant. As someone who hasn’t seen it it’s so interesting imagining the staging one way, and knowing it’s probably the exact opposite because of the style of show 😭
Have not heard it yet. I only know the German cast recording from the 90ies and always wanted a good English version! I need it 😄 I just love the car chase music. And the title song is one of my alltime favourites. And I so much agree with the finale part. So impressive! Please they need to finally make that movie. But like in really good!
Honestly your commentary made me chuckle tonight but wow - what a cast recording. I remember listening to Sunset for the first time (I think I was about 21 and I remember going on the train home from uni and having got Spotify on my phone I thought "I'll give it a whirl" as I knew the general theme for the Overture) and I was so captivated by it but whilst it was good it didn't make me go "Oh now this is GOOOD". Until I heard this album which is so superior. I don't know what is it that makes it amazing but genuinely from a vocal perspective I was blown away by it and I truly regretted not seeing it in London when I had the chance because I always had a feeling that this was going to be good. Nicole - OMG What a powerhouse!
It's lovely to see someone as passionate about this recording as me.🤩 Very entertaining video, you're hilarious 😂 ❤😂 ❤😂 I listened to the whole thing yesterday.. crying my eyes out, it's just as emotional Just listening to it as it is in the theatre. This is the best version of this show ever and I'll be listening to it for a very long time.❤. The best version of too much love to care is on this recording which is my favourite song from Sunset. It's amazing 🤩 🤩 🤩 (Also got teary eyed on the bus listen to this... people staring😂)
Re: how old was Max when Norma was 17- Judging from the age of Demille (b. 1881) and D.W. Griffith (b. 1875) and Erich von Stroheim (b. 1885- the movie Max who was in real life a brilliant director in the silent era who'd directed Swanson) relative to the age of Gloria Swanson (b.1899), and he most likely would have been in his early to mid 30s. In the movie he explains that after their divorce he was a wreck and begged to come back, even if it was as her servant. While filming the movie, Stroheim wanted to add a scene in which he washes Norma's undergarments or positions the champagne bottle in a way that implies Max's impotence. Billy Wilder told him to stop junior-directing and just act. His films, including the ones with Swanson, were considered masterpieces but they lost fortunes, which cost him his directing career. After silents he made his living as a character actor, often playing hEuropean authority figures, including Nazi officers (though he was Jewish). He and Swanson had great respect but also great personal animosity for each other. (I highly recommend watching a documentary or reading a book on the filming of that movie.)
The recording is good. Well sung and a great orchestra. Not thrilled with the acting choices but that’s a personal opinion which I’m sure works on stage in the moment and today’s audience will think it’s funny and will get a hoot out of how she delivers some of her lines. But if I want to hear someone sing and soar through this score, like I’ve done for the past 30 years, it will always be the Patti LuPone version.
I wish they had done more of a singing quality track than a live theatre track. For me it doesn't work outside the context for the show as a standalone album...too overwrought. I'm glad I saw Rachel tucker. I hate patti lupone. She would never make it today with the average skills she has and her huge ego.
@@emhu2594…. Yes, I agree that it would have work better just as a songs album. As for your opinion on Patti, I disagree. She’s old school Broadway. The most of the new crop now could never keep up with her. I saw her in Sunset twice plus a dozen other times in other shows and have met her and she is sweet, friendly and funny. She has mega stage presence and is immensely talented.
Why did they change so much of Betty's lyrics in Girls meets Boy? To make it less about the Hollywood Studio system and the Code? But the show is clearly set during that time everywhere else.
not from europe or america i did see the glen close version on youtube and i must say that nichole sounds old (in a good way) you can realy hear it at the low notes and i must agree that this score is realy simillar to a lot of ALW musicals probably all of them except JCS
I love the music that is there in Sunset - but somehow it feels a bit too repetitive and stretched out. This is one reason I so DESPERATELY want it to make it into a full lush film - not only is it so thematically appropriate, but the amount of material seems to be a film's worth not a two act stage show. The Famous Nicole I only know from her Grizabella - and she ranks veeeery low on my list of favourites. all she brought to that role was being loud. Amazing to think that in, admittedly 10 years, she's blossomed into a full blown musical theatre actress from her stiff, characterless strutting around belting!
Hello, dear friend: ¿Could you explain why they have changed the "tempo" of Norma´s two main songs, slowing them down? ¿Is it because of Nicole kind of voice, allowing her brighter performance? Thank you so much in advance.
No also the cast recording the company will not release a video for this in a long long time if they will ever do and it is prohibited for the audience to record it go watch it onstage by all means and find why this show is generating all the hype and buzz in Broadway right now it is the best show will see in your lifetime don’t miss it !
@@melbamaloney4572 I meant like a pro shot, not an audience member recording it 😂 Lots of shows have been pro recorded recently but they don't reveal that they've done it until down the line when they're ready to release it! And I know how amazing it is I saw it in London which is why I'm dying to see it again!
Thanks for doing this Mick. It sounds a very good recording probably sharpened some respects and more real than the two cast recordings. I’d be interested to know whether the orchestra is being reduced. This recording that will be interesting to know but it doesn’t make a massive difference to it I think it sounds really polished
Hi, I´ve just asked fot the same. I´m not quite sure if it makes the songs better. May be it´s because of Nicole´s voice to allow her a brighter performance.
I just watched the 50s movie this is based off of last night. The original title is Dark Windows so I find it interesting that the original Broadway soundtrack changed it to Blind Windows. Although, to be fair, they are both terrible titles. lol
Oh thank theatre ghods they switched to "Let's Do Lunch" instead of "Let's Have Lunch" which I suspect is just a matter of the American idiom not working for UK audiences. Despite it firmly set in Hollywood. Yes - after the car chase the implication is he's driven into her overgrown driveway to hide from the repo men.
For the original production, they wrote it as 'Let's Do Lunch' and then the writers realised that no-one in 1949 used this idiom (the year the original film and the show are set in). It came about more in subsequent decades. Perhaps in this production, there is less emphasis on being true to the period?
you’ve often critiqued the use of a white powder used in the backstage walk but it’s foreshadowed when they ask “do me a favour: find me some blow” and blow is an old term for the white stuff
Speaking tubes - think early intercom between rooms - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_tube =) An easy way to summon the butler or the live-in writer, without ringing a bell!
always love the Jamie Lloyd lighting you have for these videos
“Every woman in Hollywood wants you; you with your good hair and your no money”
The way I CACKLED at that quip, while simultaneously realizing that Joe Gillis is basically who TLC was singing about 😂
I’m here to see your reaction to “As if we never said goodbye” 100% best song from the show. Best performance, the standout, the GOAT!
I LOVE these reaction videos - your joy, enthusiasm and energy is infectious, the B&W flat walk, the spotlights, the dolly, jacket had me in laughing out loud - I love this score and seen it performed many many times with lots of Norma's - but with this commentary you just completely opened it up for me - so much going on in the music I had no idea....thank you Mickey Jo. One of these days I'll bump into you at the theatre and will thank you in person.
Oh MIckeyJo - thank you for such a gleeful romp through this *wow* recording. You just made my day here in rainy, storm, gloomy Oregon! You outdid yourself with this video - I'm certainly your biggest state-side fan. Cheers!
A clever, bright and witty video. Very well done, loved it! Thanks a lot and greetings from Hamburg!
This reaction is hilarious, I’ve listened to the album 4 times in full so far and hearing your really funny commentary enhances it so much
This is definitely on the Best of MickeyJo Theatre short list.
3:24. “You could dance to this at a wedding…if it was also a funeral!!” CLASSIC!
Never really understood the hype / was interested in sunset until I downloaded this album Friday and it’s just stunning. I’m absolutely hooked and had it on repeat all weekend 🙏🏻 gutted I didn’t catch it in london
Love these videos - especially when the plushes get to join in! 😅
Have been really intrigued to listen to this version. I saw Sunset Boulevard in London with Elaine Paige and Alex Hanson many moons ago, and find myself coming back to listen to the show time and time again.
I’m definitely going to have to get this cast recording now, it sounds amazing!
I desperately need someone to cast David Thaxton as Sweeney Todd.
(can you IMAGINE a Jamie Lloyd Sweeney? These two DO work well together, Thaxton‘s Olivier was for Sondheim‘s Passion after all, directed by Lloyd… a girl can dream…)
That sounds like a great idea. BUT I think I can do one better. A Jamie Lloyd version of either Ghost the Musical or Gypsy.
He's doing Evita again.
@@emhu2594 Is it a new production though or is it the remount from the Regents Park Open Air Theatre that was meant to happen during Covid?
If so thats fine but I think he needs to now think about staying away from cameras since he did it so well with Sunset. I've always thought someone needs to do a similar thing to Sunset and do something to a show like Whistle Down the Wind (or better still CHESS - yes I know its very problematic and probably the worst time to do it what with the war in Ukraine but I truly believe someone needs to look at Chess and do a radical staging similar to Sunset).
@@emhu2594 well, I wasn’t thinking this instant, perhaps in five or so years…
You made a documentary about my day yesterday.
I grew up with Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Joseph" (first in German). I always listened to it at my grandparents' place, and that's where my love for musicals started. The one musical I never really got into was "Sunset Boulevard," but your videos changed that. I got so excited about the album, listened to all the songs on Friday, and now they're on repeat. Your reaction helped clarify the story and made me smile a lot. Just a great video with awesome comments on the musical. I usually don't comment, but I've been following your videos for a while and love each one. Greetings from Düsseldorf, Germany!
I'd seen three different performances of this show. I took a younger friend to see this who is more computer literate and technically more savvy than I and we were both blown away by the performances and concepts displayed in this show. Your reaction encapsulated the Savoy show very well. My CD of the soundtrack arrived this morning and I will now listen with your analysis in mind. Thank you
My Sunday, 11/4 matinee on Broadway was phenomenal with the 2024 Broadway Revival Cast✨
I love how this, like CATS, were reimagined and brought to life for an old and new audience telling a story that is transferable across many spectrums.
I’ve had so much fun listening to this recording. Made me fall in love with the show all over again. Loved watching this, too!!
Stunning audio quality on the whole album.
It’s superb- wish I could listen in spatial but don’t have Apple Music
watching this reaction I fully got goosebumps from David Thaxton's voice. gorgeous.
This must surely take the Olivier for best cast album reaction viideo. I feel I've seen the show!! BRAVO!!!
"the guy from SMASH" - I knew what you meant immediately.
Thank you for the shoutout to Love Never Dies. There are a few moments in this that remind me of LND, but no one ever mentions it.
I definitely want a Grace Hodgett Young Disney Princess now, thank you. And I understand the relationship between All I Ask of You and Too Much in Love to Care, but I've been wondering if Too Much in Love to Care is a pastiche of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It stands out in the score as being more contemporaneous to the period, which I see as a commentary on the couple being "of the moment" and not living in the past/in their heads.
i'm scared to listen to sunset boulevard while walking in public
Ha ha brilliant comment
"Tell her it's the dentist" and "You watched a chimp funeral like a month ago" are the two funniest lines on the internet this week.😝 Best dramaturg on TH-cam.
You should watch the movie if you haven't. You'll learn what speaking tubes are, and there's a lot of great meta in it (Demille as Demille, Swanson and Stroheim as silent movie legends, the actual set of Samson & Delilah, etc.). The movie was supposedly inspired when Wilder saw (silent film director extraordinaire) D.W. Griffith down and out and forgotten at the Brown Derby (an iconic restaurant in old Hollywood). The worst thing about the movie is that when Norma gets the spotlight and it's just a 5 second scene- no musical number.
For a 14 piece orchestra it sounds great.
You saw the show right? what was the sets & costumes like I couldnt see it when in London cos it was very pricey lol
There was no set whatsoever & the costumes were - understandably - only black & white
Micky Jo, thanks to you, I want to purchase this album. From the USA, I have followed so much about SB online never understanding this new concept and having to use my imagination comparing it to the original Broadway soundtrack. I don't think I listened to the original but perhaps 2 times. Perhaps I should revisit it. I really like some of the lush orchestrations of this new reincarnation, very Phantom-ish and a tad of the motion picture with G. Swanson. With out really understanding everything I was so happy to see Nicole win the Olivier award. I have been a fan of hers long before the world learned she was more than a Pussycat Doll (a fun group and LP). I could tell she could become a major star and now she is on Broadway and she's ecstatic about it. Thanks for walking us through the tracks and explaining. Unfortunately, there are no clips of Nicole performing. They must be looking out for everyone's cell phones. I really enjoy your critiques. Hello from the USA! I subbed last year!
What I liked about this version was just how different, but also quintessentially adjacent enough to the original this was that you totally recognize it. This is one of my favorites from ALW music-wise, simply because to me it's his most musically cohesive. There are so many motifs, vignettes, and call backs to other songs within, but also little nods to his other works. I did think some of Nicole's lines and notes were a bit too breathy, but I have to reminds myself that she's not doing Glenn Close, et al. Overall sounds very enjoyable. Makes me wish I had the chance to see it! Maybe it will be successful and get a touring production. I missed the one-off Sarah J. Block version in DC.
Great job!!
Love your musical analysis on this. How did you get away with no copyright strike? 😀also would you consider reviewing the Carousel recording with John Wilson Orchestra
I have my fingers crossed that Nicole wins the Tony for Lead Actress and the Grammy for Theatrical Recording.
Enjoy NYC. I hope you’re going on a Tuesday and you’ll get to see Mandy Gonzalez’ take
This recording is so brilliant. As someone who hasn’t seen it it’s so interesting imagining the staging one way, and knowing it’s probably the exact opposite because of the style of show 😭
I love her version of, “ New Ways to Dream,” so beautifully tragic; hopeful lullaby.
Have not heard it yet. I only know the German cast recording from the 90ies and always wanted a good English version!
I need it 😄
I just love the car chase music. And the title song is one of my alltime favourites. And I so much agree with the finale part. So impressive!
Please they need to finally make that movie. But like in really good!
It’s a great recording but I hate the fact that I missed a chance to get a cast album signed by ALW on Friday! 😂
Thought I was the only one who was hearing notes of Phantom/Love Never Dies in sunset boulevard!
Annie making a Salome cameo was unexpected.
I bought the red vinyl edition of this cast recording. Alas, it's still in transit, but i'm really looking forward to this!
This was so entertaining to watch! Love it
Honestly your commentary made me chuckle tonight but wow - what a cast recording. I remember listening to Sunset for the first time (I think I was about 21 and I remember going on the train home from uni and having got Spotify on my phone I thought "I'll give it a whirl" as I knew the general theme for the Overture) and I was so captivated by it but whilst it was good it didn't make me go "Oh now this is GOOOD". Until I heard this album which is so superior. I don't know what is it that makes it amazing but genuinely from a vocal perspective I was blown away by it and I truly regretted not seeing it in London when I had the chance because I always had a feeling that this was going to be good.
Nicole - OMG What a powerhouse!
The orchestration is DIVINE and RICH!!!
Amazing how traditional the soundtrack sounds considering the revamped visual directing style!
ure always obsessed with this show..is this the 4th episode u did of this show in the last year?
I don’t blame him, it’s an amazing show
It's lovely to see someone as passionate about this recording as me.🤩
Very entertaining video, you're hilarious 😂 ❤😂 ❤😂
I listened to the whole thing yesterday.. crying my eyes out, it's just as emotional Just listening to it as it is in the theatre. This is the best version of this show ever and I'll be listening to it for a very long time.❤. The best version of too much love to care is on this recording which is my favourite song from Sunset.
It's amazing 🤩 🤩 🤩
(Also got teary eyed on the bus listen to this... people staring😂)
NOT ANNIE 😭
Re: how old was Max when Norma was 17-
Judging from the age of Demille (b. 1881) and D.W. Griffith (b. 1875) and Erich von Stroheim (b. 1885- the movie Max who was in real life a brilliant director in the silent era who'd directed Swanson) relative to the age of Gloria Swanson (b.1899), and he most likely would have been in his early to mid 30s. In the movie he explains that after their divorce he was a wreck and begged to come back, even if it was as her servant.
While filming the movie, Stroheim wanted to add a scene in which he washes Norma's undergarments or positions the champagne bottle in a way that implies Max's impotence. Billy Wilder told him to stop junior-directing and just act. His films, including the ones with Swanson, were considered masterpieces but they lost fortunes, which cost him his directing career. After silents he made his living as a character actor, often playing hEuropean authority figures, including Nazi officers (though he was Jewish). He and Swanson had great respect but also great personal animosity for each other. (I highly recommend watching a documentary or reading a book on the filming of that movie.)
Never knew the EP end of the show theme is this- I haven’t seen sunset fyi!
You are my spirit animal!!!!
Okay, this is pretty clear it will be Nicole Scherzinger vs Audra Mcdonald for the Tony next June.
There’s a lot of Cats and Phantom musical motifs in Sunset Boulevard I had that epiphany the other day in the car. 😆
You eleborate so copiously. Impressing!
The recording is good. Well sung and a great orchestra. Not thrilled with the acting choices but that’s a personal opinion which I’m sure works on stage in the moment and today’s audience will think it’s funny and will get a hoot out of how she delivers some of her lines. But if I want to hear someone sing and soar through this score, like I’ve done for the past 30 years, it will always be the Patti LuPone version.
I wish they had done more of a singing quality track than a live theatre track. For me it doesn't work outside the context for the show as a standalone album...too overwrought. I'm glad I saw Rachel tucker. I hate patti lupone. She would never make it today with the average skills she has and her huge ego.
@@emhu2594…. Yes, I agree that it would have work better just as a songs album. As for your opinion on Patti, I disagree. She’s old school Broadway. The most of the new crop now could never keep up with her. I saw her in Sunset twice plus a dozen other times in other shows and have met her and she is sweet, friendly and funny. She has mega stage presence and is immensely talented.
I wish this guy would shut up so we could hear the darn recording!
Barbra’s version of With one look didn’t have the low modulation…so Patti and Barbra sung it as it was meant! 🥳
Has the production been or will it be filmed for a theatrical or DVD/BR release?
I've always been a fan of Nicole, though most of Hollywood ignored or refused to acknowledge her talent.
So many, MANY words…with so very, VERY little actual content. (Basically the ravings of a crazy guy on the Tube listening to the show on headphones) 😮
OH MY GOD THIS IS A REACTION VIDEO. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? 😂😂😂 CRAZY COMMENT
why ARE those hallways so crowded?!
Why did they change so much of Betty's lyrics in Girls meets Boy? To make it less about the Hollywood Studio system and the Code? But the show is clearly set during that time everywhere else.
not from europe or america i did see the glen close version on youtube and i must say that nichole sounds old (in a good way) you can realy hear it at the low notes
and i must agree that this score is realy simillar to a lot of ALW musicals probably all of them except JCS
turn the audio off and its MickeyJo's silent reaction to Sunset Blvd...😅
I love the music that is there in Sunset - but somehow it feels a bit too repetitive and stretched out. This is one reason I so DESPERATELY want it to make it into a full lush film - not only is it so thematically appropriate, but the amount of material seems to be a film's worth not a two act stage show.
The Famous Nicole I only know from her Grizabella - and she ranks veeeery low on my list of favourites. all she brought to that role was being loud. Amazing to think that in, admittedly 10 years, she's blossomed into a full blown musical theatre actress from her stiff, characterless strutting around belting!
Hello, dear friend: ¿Could you explain why they have changed the "tempo" of Norma´s two main songs, slowing them down? ¿Is it because of Nicole kind of voice, allowing her brighter performance? Thank you so much in advance.
I've listened to NOTHING ELSE since Friday. And I don't see that changing this week.
Wow sounds fab great orchedtration
Did they take out the song "The Lady's Paying"? That used to be one of my favourites in this show.
They took that out and eternal youth I think.
@@aviationphan1847 I forgot about that song!
Did not like the staging of this version but this audio sounds stunning! x
Yes- very reminiscent of Phantom!
When i tell you i wholeheartedly agree, BOY OH BOY do i mean it
YES to Linda Eder !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been listening to this on repeat since it was released! Absolutely loved this production. Any inkling as to whether it was video recorded? 👀
No also the cast recording the company will not release a video for this in a long long time if they will ever do and it is prohibited for the audience to record it go watch it onstage by all means and find why this show is generating all the hype and buzz in Broadway right now it is the best show will see in your lifetime don’t miss it !
@@melbamaloney4572 I meant like a pro shot, not an audience member recording it 😂 Lots of shows have been pro recorded recently but they don't reveal that they've done it until down the line when they're ready to release it! And I know how amazing it is I saw it in London which is why I'm dying to see it again!
Patti finishes WOL in D Major which I think is too high. Nicole ends is C which is just right!
When you said “it’s the live recording” was there a studio recording also?
No, I meant "it's a live recording"!
Thanks for doing this Mick. It sounds a very good recording probably sharpened some respects and more real than the two cast recordings. I’d be interested to know whether the orchestra is being reduced. This recording that will be interesting to know but it doesn’t make a massive difference to it I think it sounds really polished
it's a slower tempo of norma songs
Hi, I´ve just asked fot the same. I´m not quite sure if it makes the songs better. May be it´s because of Nicole´s voice to allow her a brighter performance.
I just watched the 50s movie this is based off of last night. The original title is Dark Windows so I find it interesting that the original Broadway soundtrack changed it to Blind Windows. Although, to be fair, they are both terrible titles. lol
The modulation was removed but it’s still not the same key. I don’t think anyone has sung it in her key since.
Very true!
Oh thank theatre ghods they switched to "Let's Do Lunch" instead of "Let's Have Lunch" which I suspect is just a matter of the American idiom not working for UK audiences. Despite it firmly set in Hollywood.
Yes - after the car chase the implication is he's driven into her overgrown driveway to hide from the repo men.
Why does this matter
For the original production, they wrote it as 'Let's Do Lunch' and then the writers realised that no-one in 1949 used this idiom (the year the original film and the show are set in). It came about more in subsequent decades. Perhaps in this production, there is less emphasis on being true to the period?
@@kh5801 Okay, that does make more sense now, for the original and current productions.
you’ve often critiqued the use of a white powder used in the backstage walk but it’s foreshadowed when they ask “do me a favour: find me some blow” and blow is an old term for the white stuff
You are absolutely right!
Would be great to do the same review for the recording by Glenn Close and sort of respectfully compare the two Normas
Nicole's vowel sounds are not pleasant
so many comparissons... Nicole is unique. Bad review. You talk too much.
Not a review 👍
It’s not a review it’s a reaction . That’s why he’s talking
Yes, it’s a review since u talk what u think about it
Bad comment. You’re unnecessarily rude.
Speaking tubes - think early intercom between rooms - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_tube =) An easy way to summon the butler or the live-in writer, without ringing a bell!