My Masters (audio)
Bernadette Peters in Concert | Salt Lake City | November 19, 2022 | GayBlayde
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Bernadette Peters, Joseph Thalken (conductor)
Concert with the Utah Symphony Orchestra; the first portion of the program did not include Bernadette Peters and is not included here. Her microphone was kind of mushy and difficult to understand in real life, which is reflected in the recording as well. I also had a post-COVID cough from hell, which will crop up sometimes between songs. Bernadette wore the purple dress for this. Overall a listenable but far from perfect recording, so please gift this on request.
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Bright Star in Concert | Salt Lake City | January 20, 2023 | GayBlayde
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Carmen Cusack (Alice Murphy), Casey Elliott (Jimmy Ray Dobbs), David Olsen (Mayor Josiah Dobbs), Nathan Kremin (Billy Cane), Kenzie Davis Kremin (Margo Crawford), Abram Rice (Daddy Cane), Hannah Thompson (Lucy Grant), Chad Jennings (Daryl Ames), Debra Bonner (Mama Murphy), Harry Bonner (Daddy Murphy), McCade Matheson (Stanford), Steven South (ensemble), Maggie Merrill (ensemble), Christina Liadoc (ensemble), Devin Neilson (ensemble), Sydney Peebler (ensemble), Sarah Iverson Richardson (ensemble), Nathaniel Brown (ensemble)
A one-night concert engagement in Salt Lake City with original star Carmen Cusack. Most of the cast was presumably local talent; the sound design and microphones were hit-or-miss, so sometimes you can't hear everything as well as one might wish. Includes the full digital program.
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Dear Evan Hansen | 1st US National Tour | March 5, 2023 matinee (Salt Lake City) | GayBlayde
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Anthony Norman (Evan Hansen), Coleen Sexton (Heidi Hansen), Alaina Anderson (Zoe Murphy), Lili Thomas (Cynthia Murphy), John Hemphill (Larry Murphy), August Emerson (Connor Murphy), Reese Sebastian Diaz (u/s Jared Kleinman), Gillian Jackson Han (u/s Alana Beck)
Taken from third balcony, but the sound design was impeccable so you can hear everything really well. I dropped my phone during You Will Be Found but the rest of the song is still there; I was also crying like a little baby during So Big, So Small. Alaina Anderson was really quiet, but I don't think it was a technical issue; Anthony Norman isn't the best vocalist to have ever played Evan but his acting was next-level.
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Frozen | 1st US National Tour | October 30, 2021 (Salt Lake City) | GayBlayde
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Caroline Bowman (Elsa), Caroline Innerbichler (Anna), Austin Colby (Hans), Mason Reeves (Kristoff), F. Michael Haynie (Olaf), Victoria Hope Chan (Young Anna), Natalie Grace Chan (Young Elsa), Marina Kondo (Queen Iduna), Kyle Lamar Mitchell (King Agnarr), Caelan Creaser (Head Handmaiden), Michael Everett (Pabbie), Brit West (Bulda), Michael Milkanin (Bishop/Oaken), Robert Creighton (Weselton), Evan Strand (Sven), Jeremy Davis, Colby Dezelick, Berklea Going, Michael Allan Haggerty, Tyler Jimenez, Hannah Jewel Kohn, Nika Lindsay, Tatyana Lubov, Adriana Rose Lyons, Naomi Rodgers, Daniel Switzer, Zach Trimmer
My first audio master, recorded on my phone from the third balcony. Clear enough, includes the entire show with no gaps.