Saturday Night Fever (1998 Original London Cast)
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Decca U.S. |
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4.0 |
Description: The trend of making stage musicals out of dance movies from the late 1970s and early 1980s continues with
Saturday Night Fever, which debuted with this London cast in 1998 and moved to Broadway in the fall of 1999. Like
Footloose,
SNF has the task of taking a score that was essentially background music and transforming it into songs performed by onstage characters. For example, "How Deep Is Your Love" becomes a romantic duet, and "If I Can't Have You" becomes Stephanie's (Tara Wilkinson) vow that she'll only dance with Tony (Adam Garcia). In addition to most of the familiar songs from the movie soundtrack, the cast recording adds some other Bee Gees hits ("What Kind of Fool," "Tragedy," "Immortality"). It's all a pleasant listen and a useful souvenir of the show, but those who just want to listen to the music might do just as well to stick with the original soundtrack--unless you're allergic to falsetto.
--David Horiuchi
Tracklist of Saturday Night Fever (1998 Original London Cast)
Reviews:
Love This CD!
Being a huge fan of the movie, was very interested to see how the musical sounded. Bought this CD after finding out Adam Garcia was Tony Manero. I was blown away! Although different from the original Bee Gees recordings, the versions are fun, funky, have a good beat and are easy to dance to. My personal favorite is "Night Fever" followed closely by the duet "How Deep Is Your Love." A must for any Adam Garcia fan and a must for any Bee Gees/disco fan. You will truly enjoy it!
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER?
Hardly...
If you like broadyway go see the show but skip the recording...this ones not the inspiration that SNF was.
Bad vocals and a bland re-recording of orignals.
the only hope here stems from 'Immortality' a great Gibb song but wait for a better recording of it on some best of broadway cd.
Saturday Night Fiasco
If, and that's a HUGE if, you're a Bee Gees fan, or a Donna Summer fan, then perhaps you would like Saturday Night Fever: The Musical. However, if you are a theatre afficionado who religiously listens to Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim, then back away from this atrocity. Having seen the show live, I must admit the choreography was incredible, however that was the only redeeming factor I picked out in it. The London recording is also a bit different than the Broadway/Tour run. While the vocal talents they chose for it are all right, it appears that they were hoping to ride on the pretty faces and familiar tunes for a Broadway hit. The ennunciation is also incredibly off, making many words hard to understand. The "plot" was incredibly weak, especially considering the writers had a movie to refer to, and at times I was wondering what purpose certain songs served in the plot. The incidents that occur (ie: Tony's brother leaving the ministry, Annette's affection for Tony) are never strongly connected, making for 5 or 6 subplots but never one strong central premise. I wouldn't reccomend this to a huge Broadway fan, given the hype that this has received, they might be scared that it set a precedent.