NOTES FROM THE RECORDING STUDIO
by Jason Loewith on 4/08/2008 02:45:00 PM 

As reported on Playbill.com and in the Chicago Tribune, Adding Machine: A Musical is getting recorded for posterity!

PS Classics, a relatively young label with a mighty catalog, is producing the CD, which will be recorded on April 14 in New York with the off-Broadway cast. Tommy Krasker, head of the label, hopes to release it in early June.



This whole recording thing is new to me, and I've been fascinated to see how Tommy puts it together. And it's big business, too. Even the smallest of recordings, recorded in a single day like Adding Machine, takes many tens of thousands of dollars to pay performers, studio fees, post-production costs, and production... and then there's marketing. It's an unbelievable outlay in a world where people spend less and less on physical CDs and more and more on iTunes.

Since the deal was inked barely a week ago, Josh and I have been collaborating at lightning speed with Tommy on the contours of the album. Things I don't think about any more - the way, for example, our brilliant director David Cromer melded one scene into the next - are actually problems for the recording, so Josh and I have to reconsider the beginnings and endings of scenes. And what about the spoken dialogue? To cut or not to cut, that's been the question all week.

Happily, I think that Tommy, Josh and I have come to some excellent conclusions about how to trim what's unhelpful to an auditor but retain the musical's essential story. You can bet we'll be selling copies of the CD at Next!

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