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[TaleofTwo]

Ghostlight just posted this on their Facebook account:



http://www.broadway.com/videos/154284/exclusive-listen-to-marin-mazzie-and-molly-ranson-sing-and-eve-was-weak-from-the-carrie-cast-recording/#play

And if you haven't pre-ordered the CD yet:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008VTRJQ0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008VTRJQ0&linkCode=as2&tag=broadcaptu-20

[CATSNYrevival]

I think I just came in my pants a little bit.

[ljay889]

Thankfully not much head voice from Marin.

[Rockyfan2000]

Fantastic!!!

[jv92]

My favorite song from the show. I haven't listened to it yet, but just knowing I can hear THIS particular song early is making me tingly.

[MrMidwest]

Pretty good stuff!

[jv92]

Wow! Perhaps this will sound biased coming from someone who really adores Marin Mazzie's work, but this sounds fabulous! The orchestrations are also fairly impressive, though quite different from 1988.

[best12bars]

She sang the hell out of it! (Pun intended.)

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Wow, she is ridiculous! I can't believe how intense, wonderful and powerful she is throughout the whole song, I hadn't listened to her singing the score before and I'm about to pre-order the album after listening to that. Her singing is out of the world!

[bryan2]

I may be in the minority but this does nothing to me... I want to love this-I love her-but all I hear is Bettys voice in my head and I dont like this version....to much talk singing at the beginging and the last note is not WOW to me...maybe once I get the cd and listen to the entire thing and get the perfomance aspect it will grow on me (i hope)....I still cant believe they recorded this and let one of the best performances (betty) go unrecorded...such a shame

[tazber]

My favorite song too. I'm so used to the OBC version than this will take a little getting used to but I like it.

[sondheimboy2]

I was hoping that they might have had Betty Buckley and Barbara Cook come and record some bonus tracks.

[GlindatheGood22]

Wonderful! Can't wait to hear When There's No One.

[LALALand]

I liked it, but as others have said, it will take some getting used to. Intrigued enough to want to hear more.

[Johnnycantdecide]

Perfection has a name and it's Marin Mazzie.

[DeNada]

In some ways I wish that this wasn't the track that everyone wanted to hear. Having heard clips of Marin singing other songs from the show, this is probably her weakest number - not entirely her fault, as it's the number that benefitted the most from the full orchestration in the original production, but in transposing it down it loses some of the chilling effect of Betty Buckley's rendition.

I'm looking forward to I Remember How... in particular.

[a-mad]

Holy cow... that was unbe-freakin-lievable.

They both sounded fantastic!

[Mildred Plotka]

Whee! Love it. I was hoping she would play it differently than she was directed on stage.

[qolbinau]

I don't think she did. She was sick for a while, including on the video that was taken, where she used a lot of head voice. But this clip sounds very similar to a couple of the audios I have heard, except perhaps she is shouting a bit less at the beginning and more at the end. <3 Marin Mazzie.

[Mildred Plotka]

I saw her before she was taken ill, and this certainly is more lively and less-subdued that she was at the performance I saw.

[best12bars]

I'm sure Marin isn't worried about sustaining this level of intensity eight shows a week. She "let loose" for the recording, and my ears tell me she nailed it.

I don't personally believe that belting a higher note equals "more intensity." That's measuring emotion in technical terms, which I have always hated.

Marin's acting (at least vocal acting) here is pretty fantastic. I don't need her to peel the paint off the walls at the same time, or hit a high Q above middle H on the scale. She did freak me out a couple of times during this song, and that's all it really requires.

Well done, kiddo.

[AEA AGMA SM]

"I was hoping that they might have had Betty Buckley and Barbara Cook come and record some bonus tracks."

Somehow I get the feeling that they would not have been able to convince Barbara Cook to come in and sing anything from that show ever again. I'm sure the figure would have been far beyond whatever budget they might have had.

[CATSNYrevival]

Both Betty Buckley and Linzi Hateley have recorded songs from Carrie on their solo albums. If people want bonus tracks that badly they can just use those. They also recorded "And Eve Was Weak" live for Buckly's Carnegie Hall album, but at the time the song was left off the CD release. If the authors wanted to, I'm sure they could have finally given permission to release that recording and include it as a bonus track, but for whatever reason they decided not to.

[Overthewall]

The performance at Carnegie Hall was badly off tempo for most of the song! I heard that Betty didn't want it on the recording because of how off it was.

[bwayphreak234]

I absolutely love this.

[My Oh My]

I think she's fabulous in this.

I've been so jaded the last couple of years due to my fave show cheapened beyond belief at the height of its popularity and at a milestone, that I was one of the members who expressed harsh discontent at member reports describing an unexciting, bland, and significantly subdued take on a character that is said to have been "humanized" by her, a claim far too common these days and almost always complete bullsh*t.

I developed a sort of resentment toward audiences for not noticing, or even caring about the significantly thinned out new orchs at the so-called 2006 revival of Les Mis, and especially not noting the impact that had on how the production was perceived. So when reports that my ultimate guilty pleasure that is Carrie: The Musical was being given the pretentious, gimmicky treatment of the 25th ann. Les Mis, I went off before hearing a second of Mazzie's performance.

Thankfully, I have enough sense that I've only allowed my fiery passion for this art form to reach such heights of quick judgement on those two occasions. While I no longer so much "resent" audiences as much as I used to, after this and the shocking let down by fellow Les Mis fans and general audiences in that horrid orchs debacle, I am very, very wary of where people's opinions come from. At least wary enough not to assume we mean the same thing.

In a way, part of what allowed me to think it was safe to assume the worst and take their reports at face value before even having a chance to listen and judge for myself was giving them the benefit of the doubt. It's natural to assume when someone says keys were lowered to the point it renders a song ineffective and is described as "subdued" to the point Mazzie appears to be drugged half the time, then you throw in confirmations that the director is approaching this from a pretentious, preachy perspective, the least to expect is a rant on how badly theatre sucks these days and the idiocy of modern directors.

As tainted as my outlook and opinion on audiences is, I never would have thought I'd listen to the audio preserved rendition of what was said to be horribly lacking months later, and feel like a fool for going off on what was--to be sure--anything BUT a lackluster performance by Mazzie.

Yes, it did cross my mind at the time the possibility that the highly negative reports by members were solely in response to the simple absence of WoW notes in the style of Betty Buckley. Now I see that was likely the sole reason based on the results and I find I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad that I am me!

I can't imagine being of such limited perspective. How depressing that must be. That head voice is bad because it is head voice regardless of the dynamics and nuances Mazzie has to offer that are every bit as powerful as anything Buckley did. I'd say she is just as great. I'd rather be a nit picky mofo than one that is either so easily impressed and wooed by sh*t or easily dismayed by the presence of variation. As heavy handed as I can get, at least I have reasons for my beliefs and takes on things enough to fill a page, or 100, with drivel!

That's my obnoxious, self important post of the day. Hooray! XD

P.S. - The orchs in this are a tasteful adaptation of the originals, which were one of the original production's strengths and saved in their Broadway modification from the outrageously pretentious earlier stuff dripping in lushiness and sentiment that brought the overall feel of the show down a few hundred pegs in Stratford. Ugh.