| Title: | Welcome to the CD Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome to COOKIE |
| Moderator: | COOKIE::ROLLOW |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Mar 03 1989 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I'll make this quick and try to get back here with a more
detailed review later on...
Lechmere has the soundtrack for _Les Mis�rables_ on sale
this week for $24.98. I've only played it once, but I
think it's terrific. The performances and songs are excellent -
it's not "just another show".
I have never heard of the label (First Night Records),
and it's not labeled "DDD" or "ADD" or whatever. I did
notice some hiss during one quiet song ("I Dreamed A Dream"),
but I was specifically listening for it then and not anywhere
else.
("I Dreamed A Dream" will be the next "What I Did For Love"
from _Chorus Line_ and "Memory" from _Cats_.)
_Les Mis�rables_ is going to be THE show of this season,
next season, and probably many more years to come. If
you have any interest in theatre at all, get this. It's
two discs (about 55 minutes and 41 minutes as I recall)
and includes a booklet with the lyrics and additional notes
so that it's relatively clear what's going on (for those
of us who never slogged through Victor Hugo's 1200-page
novel).
Jim Stratton
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| 681.1 | keeping those prices up! | SYLPH::ALLEN | Roger | Mon Mar 16 1987 12:16 | 9 |
Are they doing it to us again???
55 minutes plus a few seconds, one soundtrack, on *TWO* discs?
Why???
(I haven't checked the time out, but I know it's 2 discs)
- roger
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| 681.2 | It probably is two full disks | CSSE32::RHINE | Jack Rhine - DTN: 381-2439 | Mon Mar 16 1987 14:15 | 2 |
Les Miserables is reputed to not have one word of Dialogue and in that sense it could be very long! | |||||
| 681.3 | To clarify | EXIT26::STRATTON | Shoelaces of the world, untie! | Mon Mar 16 1987 19:53 | 3 |
It is two discs. The first is 55 minutes and some
seconds. The second is 41 minutes and some seconds.
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| 681.4 | ICEMAN::CLIN | Tue Mar 17 1987 10:10 | 10 | ||
Is this the Broadway play that you are talking about? Has anyone
seen it? How is it?
Boston Globe has a full page of advertisement for ticket information,
and the date is DEC 5! Does that mean you order your ticket now
and wait till Dec for the troop to come to Boston?
Charles
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| 681.5 | SARAH::P_DAVIS | Peter Davis, X-NYer | Tue Mar 17 1987 13:21 | 4 | |
The CD that's available is, I believe, the London production of
"Les Miserables," which is a translation of the original French
production. The New York production is probably similar to that,
with differences in cast, of course.
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