Yesterday, several performers from the “MJ The Musical” posted on social media that they were in the studio recording the soundtrack album for the Broadway show – MJ The Musical.
As you know, almost every single Broadway production gets a cast recording album of its original performers singing the songs in the show.
They will be performing the songs of Michael Jackson that are present in the show and we hear that the arrangement for each track is different from Michael’s original versions. Like any studio recording, the cast album is an idealised rendering, more glossily perfect than any live performance could be, and without audible audience reaction. Nevertheless, the listener who has attended the live show expects it to be an accurate souvenir of the experience.
They will be performing the songs of Michael Jackson present in the show. The recorded song lyrics and orchestrations are nonetheless identical (or very similar) to those of the songs as performed in the theatre. Like any studio performance, the recording is an idealized rendering, more glossily perfect than any live performance could be, and without audible audience reaction. Nevertheless, the listener who has attended the live show expects it to be an accurate souvenir of the experience.
However, it came a bit by surprise as the Estate has always refused to release the soundtrack of Cirque Du Soleil’s Michael Jackson ONE. All Cirque du Soleil shows have a soundtrack album except for one: the Michael Jackson ONE. While some of the songs are a similar arrangement to Michael Jackson Immortal, there are many different incarnations that deserve an official release.
We can hope that this soundtrack will be also released at some point, maybe if the “MJ The Musical” cast recording album does well, we might get lucky. Fans have been asking for it since the show opened in Las Vegas in 2013 and the team at MJVibe directly asked Kevin Atunes the show’s musical director who said “you’ll need to ask John Branca.” So we did, to which he replied “Maybe in the future, but you can get two of the songs in the MJ One Boutique.”
So, back to Broadway – Will you buy the “MJ The Muscial” Original Broadway Cast Recording album? We would like to know…
Really missing MJ, music isn’t the same without him. I thought there would be more time, concerts and music, now his estate isn’t trying to preserve his legacy by releasing any new music which we know he has.
we really loved the show so just to support the cast and show them our love we will buy and stream