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Listening to this original cast CD, you can enjoy Julie Andrews in her biggest (and last, for three decades) Broadway starring role. You can hear the original of the song that made Robert Goulet a star. Lancelot meets his peers, and his Queen, at a sort of Camelot company picnic – The Lusty Month Of May. Company Original Broadway Cast. Jones was on the verge of going through a divorce (which happened a year later, I believe), missed his kids, and found performing the show like rubbing salt in his emotional wounds, given what it had to say about marriage and relationships. He asked Prince to be released from his contract several weeks before opening.
Chrysanthemum62001
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Company Original Broadway Cast#0
Posted: 3/15/06 at 12:56am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 12:56am
Alright, I only just found out that Dean Jones was replaced by Larry Kert after only a few weeks. I was really surprised, because most of the pictures I ever saw from the original production were of Dean Jones as Bobby. And now that explains why there was the bonus track of Larry singing 'Being Alive' on my cd. Honestly, I prefer Dean Jones' version of the song. His voice just has so much character. I'm wondering, which Bobby do most people tend to prefer?
'What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over.' The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#1
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:08am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:08am
Dean Jones was great in the role,
but the legend is his ego was bruised when the reviews said it was an ensemble show and not a star vehicle.
After all he did 'The Love Bug'
Larry Kert sang the sh*t out of it but BOBBY is and always will be a problematic Role.
Maybe we will get another chance to see this show with a new take ala Sweeney (and I don't mean the new 'play the instruments' version, though it sounds cool)
Like Sam Mendes & Hugh Jackman?
but the legend is his ego was bruised when the reviews said it was an ensemble show and not a star vehicle.
After all he did 'The Love Bug'
Larry Kert sang the sh*t out of it but BOBBY is and always will be a problematic Role.
Maybe we will get another chance to see this show with a new take ala Sweeney (and I don't mean the new 'play the instruments' version, though it sounds cool)
Like Sam Mendes & Hugh Jackman?
Chrysanthemum62001
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#2
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:11am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:11am
'What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over.' The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#3
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:22am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:22am
well the Dean Jones story is in several books and interviews.
I wanna know if it was Kert who asked during WSS rehearsals
'who do i have to (expletive) to get out of this show?'
and from the house came:
The same person you (expletive) to get in it!
I thought Boyd Gaines did a great Bobby also, He acted and sang it when he was in good voice.
I wanna know if it was Kert who asked during WSS rehearsals
'who do i have to (expletive) to get out of this show?'
and from the house came:
The same person you (expletive) to get in it!
I thought Boyd Gaines did a great Bobby also, He acted and sang it when he was in good voice.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#4
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:24am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:24am
Yesss. I didn't see him, but I have the revival recording also. I love Boyd Gaines' voice.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#5
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:27am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:27am
Actually I've read interviews with Sondheim that said Dean jones had a nervous breakdown. i mean leaving because the reviews said it was an ensemble show is a little foolish. He signed a contract and most likely wouldn't be allowed to leave 3 weeks into it for a bruised ego.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#6
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:31am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:31am
When the show opened Jones had already been clear about his early departure. He promised he'd open the show but that he'd only stay for a couple of weeks with it.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#7
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:39am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:39am
Fosca yes that is the story
and why hasn't any new Bway star had a breakdown?
and why hasn't any new Bway star had a breakdown?
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#8
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:42am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:42am
umm they have. Talk to Sutton Foster about opening Millie. While she didn't have to leave the show, she often talks about being on the Diarhea diet for the entire first year.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#9
Posted: 3/15/06 at 2:05am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 2:05am
The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Company is my current obssession. I would have loved to have been alive to see that show!
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#10
Posted: 3/15/06 at 3:13am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 3:13am
Jones did not have a nervous breakdown, and it had nothing to do with reviews.
Hal Prince became aware that Jones was unhappy in the show while they were trying it out in Boston. (Jones was having marital problems and missed his wife and family in California. He also was not up to playing a Broadway show 8 times a week.) Prince offered to replace him once the show opened and Jones promised to do his best on opening night. Later, Prince petitioned the Tony awards to allow Larry Kert to be nominated (since so few Tony voters would have had the chance to see Jones in the role) and the Tony committee agreed.
Columbia brought Larry Kert into the studio and had him overdub his voice onto the completed cast album. It wasn't a total success because it had been originally recorded with everyone in one large room (see the COMPANY: ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM documentary.) So, Kert sounds disconnected from the rest of the cast and you can hear Dean Jones' voice leaking through in the background. The record was never issued in the USA but was released in the U.K. when the show opened there. In 1994 it came out on CD as part of the Sony West End series (also not released in the USA but available in Canada) but that whole series has been discontinued.
Hal Prince became aware that Jones was unhappy in the show while they were trying it out in Boston. (Jones was having marital problems and missed his wife and family in California. He also was not up to playing a Broadway show 8 times a week.) Prince offered to replace him once the show opened and Jones promised to do his best on opening night. Later, Prince petitioned the Tony awards to allow Larry Kert to be nominated (since so few Tony voters would have had the chance to see Jones in the role) and the Tony committee agreed.
Columbia brought Larry Kert into the studio and had him overdub his voice onto the completed cast album. It wasn't a total success because it had been originally recorded with everyone in one large room (see the COMPANY: ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM documentary.) So, Kert sounds disconnected from the rest of the cast and you can hear Dean Jones' voice leaking through in the background. The record was never issued in the USA but was released in the U.K. when the show opened there. In 1994 it came out on CD as part of the Sony West End series (also not released in the USA but available in Canada) but that whole series has been discontinued.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#11
Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:02am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 8:02am
The mother of my goddaughter was in the original cast. I'll ask her about the Dean Jones situation.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#12
Posted: 3/15/06 at 10:59am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 10:59am
Frontrowcentre's version is the one I've heard repeatedly over the years. Jones was on the verge of going through a divorce (which happened a year later, I believe), missed his kids, and found performing the show like rubbing salt in his emotional wounds, given what it had to say about marriage and relationships. He asked Prince to be released from his contract several weeks before opening, and Prince agreed, but asked him to stay until opening -- he needed time to get his replacement (Kert) ready and he felt it would be disruptive to the rest of the cast to have to face the critics with a brand new lead. Jones did the opening and then left the show roughly a week or so afterwards.
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Updated On: 3/15/06 at 10:59 AMbest12bars
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#13
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:17am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:17am
Jones actually played the part for a month after it opened. That was the agreement.
I think the rumor of the nervous breakdown happened because while Jones was working out the details for leaving, he said (rather desperately) that he MIGHT have a 'nervous breakdown' if he didn't have the opportunity to go back to be with his family.
The creative team was willing to do anything to have him stay through the opening, so he agreed to do it for a month before he bowed out. But they used this potential 'nervous breakdown' excuse themselves to justify it, so they perpetuated their own myth.
But Jones never actually had one.
I think the rumor of the nervous breakdown happened because while Jones was working out the details for leaving, he said (rather desperately) that he MIGHT have a 'nervous breakdown' if he didn't have the opportunity to go back to be with his family.
The creative team was willing to do anything to have him stay through the opening, so he agreed to do it for a month before he bowed out. But they used this potential 'nervous breakdown' excuse themselves to justify it, so they perpetuated their own myth.
But Jones never actually had one.
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Updated On: 3/15/06 at 11:17 AMPalJoey
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#14
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:19am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:19am
I was a 14-year-old obsessed with the original production and saw it 6 times.
Dean Jones was excellent in the part, as listening to the OCR will tell you.
But Larry Kert was electrifying! He seemed to be singing about the intense loneliness and longing of a man who could connect only briefly before running away.
His Being Alive, which can be heard as an extra on the new CD and on the 'Scrabble' album was the most painfully personal version I have ever heard--and of course his soaring high notes made the climax of that song a true show stopper.
But you can hear the exquisitely painful quality of his vocal performance in the solos of that London recording. (As frontrowcrentre said, the group numbers sound weirdly disconnected.)
I can still hear him singing phrases like 'Wait for me. / I'm ready now. / I'll find you if I can' in Someone Is Waiting or some of the poignant pleas in Barcelona.
I also saw him, shortly before he died, in a now-extinct cabaret space on East 49th Street. He sang Being Alive, probably for the last time, and everybody there wept.
Updated On: 3/15/06 at 11:19 AMDean Jones was excellent in the part, as listening to the OCR will tell you.
But Larry Kert was electrifying! He seemed to be singing about the intense loneliness and longing of a man who could connect only briefly before running away.
His Being Alive, which can be heard as an extra on the new CD and on the 'Scrabble' album was the most painfully personal version I have ever heard--and of course his soaring high notes made the climax of that song a true show stopper.
But you can hear the exquisitely painful quality of his vocal performance in the solos of that London recording. (As frontrowcrentre said, the group numbers sound weirdly disconnected.)
I can still hear him singing phrases like 'Wait for me. / I'm ready now. / I'll find you if I can' in Someone Is Waiting or some of the poignant pleas in Barcelona.
I also saw him, shortly before he died, in a now-extinct cabaret space on East 49th Street. He sang Being Alive, probably for the last time, and everybody there wept.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#15
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:22am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:22am
Wow, thanks PJ for that comparison. I'd never heard them compared side-by-side (no pun intended).
I didn't realize Kert had that much impact in the part.
I didn't realize Kert had that much impact in the part.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#16
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:25am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:25am
Frontrow beat me to it. From what I've heard, getting through 'Being Alive' every night was exhausting to Dean.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#17
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:46am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:46am
My favorite 'Kert' is on the London concert version of NYMPH ERANT. He was obviously ill but he sings SO FAR AWAY and it will break your heart, it is quite haunting.
Thanks Larry.
Thanks Larry.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#18
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:47am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:47am
Sorry to blaspheme, but I can NOT stand Jones' voice. The rest of the cast recording is amazing, but his voice hurts my ears so badly that I actually prefer listening to the London revival (with Adrian Lester, I believe).
Listening to Jones is like hearing Jimmy Stewart trying to sing Sondheim. Just braying. They play selections from it on the Sirius satellite Broadway channel, and it's always the only time I change stations during a Sondheim song.
(The fact that Jones is now a born-again wackjob who primarily does one-man Christian theater doesn't help either.)
Listening to Jones is like hearing Jimmy Stewart trying to sing Sondheim. Just braying. They play selections from it on the Sirius satellite Broadway channel, and it's always the only time I change stations during a Sondheim song.
(The fact that Jones is now a born-again wackjob who primarily does one-man Christian theater doesn't help either.)
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#19
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:56am
Posted: 3/15/06 at 11:56am
I know it's an impossible dream anyway, but I wish they had done a 'real' re-recording with Larry Kert. I know, it never would have happened, but I would have loved to hear Larry Kert with the rest of the cast. I've never heard this recording with Kert's vocals dubbed over Jones', but I love his 'Being Alive' so much.
It took me awhile to really like Dean Jones as Bobby and Adrian Lester is still probably my favorite (although I don't like the London recording very much), but I can appreciate Jones a lot more.
It took me awhile to really like Dean Jones as Bobby and Adrian Lester is still probably my favorite (although I don't like the London recording very much), but I can appreciate Jones a lot more.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#20
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:04pm
Posted: 3/15/06 at 1:04pm
While I'm respectful of others who were moved by Kert's performance, I can't listen to him, honestly. He constantly sings 'sharp,' and has a strange tone placement (somewhere in the back of this throat). It's enough to part my hair without a comb. And not just on the Company stuff, I think he's bad on the West Side Story OBCR as well.
Still, I have heard performers who weren't very good singers who gave amazing 'live' performances, and since I never had the pleasure (or possible pain?) of seeing Larry live, I can only appreciate and listen to others who have.
Still, I have heard performers who weren't very good singers who gave amazing 'live' performances, and since I never had the pleasure (or possible pain?) of seeing Larry live, I can only appreciate and listen to others who have.
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Updated On: 3/15/06 at 01:04 PMPalJoey
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#21
Posted: 3/15/06 at 2:06pm
Posted: 3/15/06 at 2:06pm
um...BTB? you've got that backward
jpbran said it was Dean Jones's performance he could not stand, not Larry Kert's.
jpbran said it was Dean Jones's performance he could not stand, not Larry Kert's.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#22
Posted: 3/15/06 at 4:46pm
Posted: 3/15/06 at 4:46pm
PJ--- Lordy! Confusion!!
I'm reading all of this too fast. I changed the post.
It's Larry Kert's voice that bugs me. Guess I'm the 'blasphemer!'
I'm reading all of this too fast. I changed the post.
It's Larry Kert's voice that bugs me. Guess I'm the 'blasphemer!'
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Updated On: 3/15/06 at 04:46 PMPalJoey
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#23
Posted: 3/15/06 at 5:30pm
Posted: 3/15/06 at 5:30pm
No. You've just got lousy taste.
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re: Company Original Broadway Cast#24
Posted: 3/15/06 at 6:50pm
Posted: 3/15/06 at 6:50pm
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