Thanks for the tip. I hadn't seen the link to click through from Broadway World to the full article on Billboard. I find all the talk about the sound, and mixing, and compression, and the thing about the album grooves on the original Evita so fascinating. I would love to read a whole book about that! LOL. (preferably in reference to musical theatre recordings).
I think you are very right about Think of Me. I have seen Phantom several times and I know at some point I realized it doesn't have a lot of applause points but didn't think too much about it. Honestly, I thought it was a Hal Prince thing. Evita also fits this mold. The audience is not invited to applaud until after Buenos Aires. I am not sure how many minutes into the show that is, maybe 20. Aspects as well. I think the first applause point is after Seeing Is Believing. By then most of the audience is still awake. HA. Sorry but I can never stop thinking about the Forbidden Broadway spoof... "If you're in the audience then you'll, sleep, too". Aspects is a guilty pleasure, I saw it with affection. |
