| Lonny Price answered this question at BroadwayCon! | |
| Posted by: Showtunegal 08:44 pm EDT 08/18/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Why was the album cover for the 1982 original cast recording for MERRILY so boring? - Chromolume 06:47 pm EDT 08/18/24 | |
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| There was a panel on Merrily We Roll Along at BroadwayCon, and panelists were Lonny Price, Jim Walton, and Marianna Allen. When talk turned to the recording, Lonny Price recalled that the show hadn't run long enough for the rule to kick in where Sony was obligated to record it. (There's something like it had to run 3 weeks, or 5 weeks, I don't recall exactly.) But Hal Prince stepped up and said to Sony, "If you don't record this you'll never get another Sondheim show." Since the show was considered such a dog in its day, they packaged it, as someone points out below, to feature SONDHEIM rather than the show itself. The thought was, "this show is a dog, but the music is by the master." I was in college, and remember that the album cost several dollars more than most records, because it had a die-cut cover with an inner sleeve that pulled out to reveal a bigger picture of Mr. Sondheim. The panelists also mentioned not only how warmly received they were by this year's Broadway cast, but how Jonathan Groff talked to them about listening to the album over and over when he was younger. | |
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