[title of show] Original Cast Recording

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  • Release Date: 07/25/2006
  • Sales Rank: 4,086
  • Label: GHOSTLIGHT
  • UPC: 791558441420

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[title of show]

1LISTENUntitled Opening Number 2:15
2LISTENTwo Nobodies in New York 2:50
3LISTENAn Original Musical 3:54
4LISTENMonkeys and Playbills 3:26
5LISTENThe Tony Award Song 0:28
6LISTENPart of It All 3:04
7LISTENI Am Playing Me 1:40
8LISTENWhat Kind of Girl Is She? 1:50
9LISTENDie Vampire, Die! 4:58
10LISTENFilling Out the Form 1:52
11LISTENSeptember Song 4:50
12LISTENSecondary Characters 2:25
13LISTENA Way Back to Then 2:33
14LISTENNine People's Favorite Thing 4:39
15LISTENFinale 1:09
16LISTEN[Title of Show] 4:58

Editorial Reviews

As their submission to the 2004 New York Musical Theatre Festival, songwriter Jeff Bowen and librettist Hunter Bell decided to, as Bowen puts it in the song "An Original Musical," "write a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical." Naturally, when it came to "Filling Out the Form" (another song), in the bracketed space marked "[title of show]," they titled this show [title of show]. The result displays the writer/performers' affection for and understanding of the form of the musical, as well as their ambitions and uncertainties, all of this expressed in contemporary American slang. (The album contains enough cursing to satisfy a rap star, but does not carry a parental advisory sticker.) There is one song in which the two female performers, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff, ponder about each other, "What Kind of Girl Is She," a question that seems to be answered by their follow-up duet, "Secondary Characters." The four singers work up their greatest enthusiasm in "Die Vampire, Die!," a song about the various forms of discouragement facing the creative artist, including actual people and also the voices inside the artist's own head. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Tell nine people!by Erilac_Selbit

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February 01, 2009: The show itself is about two guys writing an original musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical. I am really glad I bought this cd after hearing a short clip on the NPR. The music is great; a piano and wonderful harmonies from the cast. I really enjoy singing along to it and did I mention I love the harmonies. I also enjoy the humor and reality/realism of the show because it is autobiographical of the creators which makes it original and plausible that maybe one day I could write a musical and have it make it on Broadway. I am in love with all of the songs some favorites being "Die, Vampire, Die", "Two Nobodies in New York","Nine People's Favorite Thing" and "Secondary Characters" but I would really list the whole cd if I could. So, I just recommend just breaking down and buying the cd, instead of only some songs that sound appealing on itunes.

I Also Recommend: Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening, Spring Awakening [Original Broadway Cast Recording].

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June 12, 2008: the music is amazing! i really like that the orchestrations are mostly piano. it makes the show more practical. every song keeps your attention. i really want to see this show.