Original Broadway Cast Recording
Pictures from the RECORDING SESSION
ALBUM SALES
The cast recording made quite an
impression in its first few weeks. The critics have been raving
about it, and it has even won over many people who didn't care for the
show itself. And the sales statistics are pretty impressive as well
. . .
From the Tuesday that it was released to the following
Sunday, 1480
copies were sold at major record stores across
the country!
Sales in New York City have been spectacular, with the
album easily making the top ten best
seller lists at several major retailers (HMV, Tower).
I was told by a couple people that it was sold
out at Virgin Megastore for a period of time on the day of its release.
I know some of you outside of NYC
have been unable to locate the album. If you're out in the middle
of nowhere and can't find it, click here
to order the recording from Amazon.com.
THE ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
For those of you who didn't go
(I think that would be most of you), the show's composer, Jason Robert
Brown, a number of cast members, and several of the wonderful people responsible
for the album showed up at Virgin Megastore the night of the album's release
for what was dubbed "Midnight Madness." We all waited around and
talked till the magic hour, then stormed the cashier's counter to buy our
copies (which JRB was kind enough to autograph, in what was probably one
of Virgin's most disorganized signings ever). Most everybody hung
around till about 1:00am, listening to the album over the sound system
and visiting.
Take a look at the Track
Listing and Commentary
for the cast album.
REVIEWS
RainbowNetwork.com
CD review
Atlanta Journal-Constitution review
Houston Chronicle review
Album review from Show
Music Magazine
Joshua Rosenblum's review from Opera News
Joseph Molnar's Parade album review from his Sound Advice column on TalkinBroadway
Steven Suskin's review from Playbill On-line.
Andrew Gans' review of the album.
Read Ken Mandelbaum's review of the cast album.