West End Cast

Covers

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Back

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Rating

9/10

Rating

9/10

Comments

Traded to me in the tapers original .wav file.

These I re-mastered, increasing the treble, and dropping the bass a touch

then I manually removed some of the overloud parts (mostly from the audience)

The overall results are very good although it does become muffled during the

curtain calls as the lap based recorder was covered up as the house lights were raised.

There's quite a few understudies on stage for this show which makes for

an interesting comparison to the other shows recorded during this week.

Cast

Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad
Ian Talbot as Wilbur Turnblad
Tracy Bennett as Velma Von Tussle
Charlotte Riby as Tracy Turnblad (u/s)
Neil Toon as Link Larkin (u/s)
Elinor Collett as Penny Pingleton
Gavin Alex as Corny Collins (u/s)
Rachel Wooding as Amber Von Tussle
Johnnie Fiori as Motormouth Maybelle 
Adrian Hansel as Seaweed J. Stubbs
Natalie Best as Inez
Dermot Canavan as Male Authority cover
Wendy Somerville as Female Authority cover
Fem Belling as Shelly
Nicky Griffiths as Lou-Ann
Jenii Hicks as Brenda
Zara Warren as Tammy
Sandra Marvin as Lorraine
Philip Catchpole as IQ
Terel Nugent as Duane
? as Sketch
Lewis Davis as Gilbert
Michael Peters as Thad
Michael Vinsen as Brad
? as Fender
The Dynamites
Holly James as Peaches
Kate Gillespie as Pearl
Yaa as Cindy

Track Listing

CD1
Act 1 (73mins)
101 Theatre Announcements
102 Good Morning Baltimore
103 The Nicest Kids in Town
104 Scene Station WZZT
105 Scene Turnblad House
106 Mama I'm a Big Girl Now
107 Scene Station WZZT Auditions
108 I Can Hear The Bells
109 (The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs
110 Scene Detention
111 The Madison
112 The Nicest Kids in Town (reprise)
113 Scene Tracy on Cornie Collins Show
114 It Takes Two
115 Scene Station WZZT Power Struggle
116 Miss Baltimore Crabs (reprise)
117 Scene Tunblad House Telephone Offers
118 Welcome to the '60s
119 Scene Patterson Park Playground
120 Run and Tell That
121 Scene Motormouth's Record Shop
122 Big, Blonde and Beautiful

CD2
Act 2 (56mins)
201 Theater Announcements
202 The Big Dollhouse
203 Scene Baltimore Women's House of Detention
204 Good Morning Baltimore (Reprise) 
205 Scene The Har-De-Har Hut
206 Timeless to Me
207 Scene Tracy in Jail
208 Without Love
209 Scene Motormouth's Record Shop
210 I Know Where I've Been
211 Hairspray
212 Scene The Baltimore Eventorium
213 Cooties
214 You Can't Stop the Beat
215 Scene Miss Teenage Hairspray
216 You Can't Stop the Beat (reprise)
217 Curtain Calls 

218 Exit Music [muffled]