The Rocky Horror Show (2000 Broadway Revival Cast)
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Composer: Richard O'BrienEdition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Science Fiction Double Feature
- Damn It, Janet
- Over At The Frankenstein Place
- Time Warp
- Sweet Transvestite
- The Sword Of Damocles
- I Can Make You A Man
- Hot Patootie
- I Can Make You A Man (reprise)
- Touch-A-Touch-A-Touch Me
- Once In A While
- Eddie's Teddy
- Planet Schmanet-Wise Up Janet Weiss
- Floor Show/Rose Tint My World
- I'm Going Home
- Spaceship
- Super Heroes
- Science Fiction Double Feature (reprise)
- Time Warp (reprise)
Music reviews of The Rocky Horror Show (2000 Broadway Revival Cast)
Music Review: Rocky At Less Than Its Best
Rating: 3 Stars
For more than 3 months I eagerly waited for this to be released, my anticipation fueled by all the wonderful reviews I had read about this cast. Sadly, I have been quite disappointed. There are some parts that are awesome, but on other recordings of RHS the entire album has been awesome. So here's what I liked. I think that Daphne Rubin-Vega is the perfect Usherette/Magenta and I absolutely loved every moment of her performance. Since every great Magenta needs an equally great Riff, Raul Esparza is just as impressive as Vega, and his performance is very reminiscent of Bruce Scott's on the Roxy recording. Esparza sounds totally wired and is wonderful. Jarrod Emick is the quintessential Brad and plays the part with power and emotion, most notably on "Once In A While" which has a fresh and creative new arrangement. This new arrangement can be best described as breathtaking, most notably at the beginning, the airy harmonies are to die for! Kristen Lee Kelly as Columbia proves that Joan Jett was NOT needed on this album, and personally I'd rather listen to Kristen's voice over Joan's any day. Sebastian LaCause has a great voice and sounds perfect for a Rocky, but he sounds too restrained, almost like the producers told him to tone it down. Now the bad news. Tom Hewitt does a fair job as Frank N. Furter, considering how the part is completely owned by Tim Curry and will always be. I thought that Hewitt could have given Frank a more masculine personality rather than playing it as crazed drag queen. The reason Curry owns this role is because he was able to infuse it with a perfect balance of femininity and masculinity, he may have been wearing stockings and heels, but there was no doubt that he was all man. Unfortunately, Hewitt was unable to achieve this balance that is so vital to the role. Lea DeLaria is acceptable as Eddie until the end of "Hot Patootie", then she starts screaming the notes and just becomes almost unbearable to listen to. As Dr. Scott, she is not tolerable at all. She overdoes the accent (which was never intended to be a part of the play in the first place), and it is all too obvious that it is a woman straining to sing a man's role. Alice Ripley is my least favorite Janet out of all the recordings that I have heard. Her voice sounds very out of place in a rock musical. I thinks she ruins an otherwise incredible new arrangement of "Damn It, Janet" and to add to the damage, she is severely overshadowed by Emick. There is only one moment that I actually enjoy her performance and that is her "God bless Lily St. Cyr" line. If she had only sung the rest like that it would have been terrific. Dick Cavett sounds totally bored and unenthusiastic as the Narrator, and really brings down "Time Warp" which is fabulous other than that. A few miscellaneous notes: they should have gone back to the stage version of "I Can Make You A Man", in "Planet, Schmanet" the "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" is far too understated when it should be the central focus of the song, Hewitt doesn't sound nearly angry enough on "PSJ", I loved the wedding bell effect with the background voices on "Damn It, Janet", this is the first recording that I have heard that I do not like how "Wild and Untamed Thing' is performed. Overall, I think this could have been a really great cast album if the presentation of some of the parts was altered. I think every member of the cast had the potential to really shine, too bad this potentail wasn't realized by all. I have heard this recording compared to the 1974 Roxy Album, but this is not even in the same league. The Roxy Album is nearly flawless. The new arrangements are for the most part very good, but some are overshadowed by peformers that leave more to be desired. It is worth checking out just because of the standouts (Vega, Esparza, Emick). One final thing I noticed is that nearly the entire album seems to suffer from bad mixing. There are quite a few times that the lead vocals are drowned out by the background vocals and even the background music, this realy detracts from enjoying the good parts of the album.
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