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| Wicked (Karaoke) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Stephen Schwartz, Julie Garnye, Sarah Farnam, Miles Phillips, Andrew Arrow, Marilyn O'connell, Michelle Lane, Michael Lavine, Rob Langeder
Label: Stage Stars
Category: Music
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $22.11
You Save: $7.84 (26%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 4473
Format: Cast Recording, Karaoke, Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 6016
UPC: 646376601627
EAN: 0646376601627
ASIN: B0002KQOLM
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | No One Mourns the Wicked | | • | The Wizard and I | | • | What is This Feeling? | | • | Something Bad | | • | Dancing Through Life | | • | Popular | | • | I'm Not That Girl | | • | One Short Day | | • | A Sentimental Man | | • | Defying Gravity | | • | Thank Goodness | | • | Wonderful | | • | As Long As You're Mine | | • | No Good Deed | | • | For Good |
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Album Description
Featured at the annual celebration of the show's Broadway anniversary, this is the only karaoke recording of songs from Wicked with on-screen lyrics and a lyric booklet. This is a new recording with a great cast, under the direction of Michael Lavine, of the Tony Award winning musical Wicked.This album contains two CDs. The first disc has a complete recording of each song, the second disc has fully-orchestrated accompaniment tracks. All songs are in the original show key, and show tempo. Intros to the songs from the Broadway show are provided. Several live musicians are featured on this album. On-Screen lyrics will appear when this CD+G is played in a karaoke machine. No lyrics will appear when the album is played in a regular CD player, however, a lyric booklet is provided.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
Good karaoke CD and vocals, but Pocket Songs is better September 8, 2004
96 out of 98 found this review helpful
To be fair, if this were the only one Wicked Karaoke CD available, I probably would have given it a higher rating. I happened to buy both the Wicked Karaoke CDs (this one and the one from Pocket Songs), because there were some missing songs on both. This CD has the only copy of "No One Mourns the Wicked" and "Something Bad", while it lacks "Dear Old Shiz" and the reprise of "I'm Not that Girl", which the Pocket Song version has. So, to get everything, I bought both (I have quite a Broadway karaoke CD collection of just about everything that was made - it's great for my husband, who's a theatre teacher).
The instrumental background on this karaoke CD is fairly synthesized sounding. There are plenty of background instruments, but the main instrument sounds like a keyboard (kind of choppy as opposed to a smooth piano sound). Each song is complete, with every bit of lyric that is both sung and spoken to each song. I was amazed at how complete this CD was, since many other karaoke CDs have shortened versions to make it into a duet or solo. However, this CD includes everything on the original soundtrack (which will vary a bit from the Wicked sheet music, which adapts some songs such as "The Wizard and I" and "Wonderful" to be a solo). One drawback: the music seemed a little fast. It was slightly faster than the Broadway Cast Recording, which can throw you off if you're used to the tempo of the original. The complete lyrics are enclosed in the booklet, and on a CD-G karaoke player, all the words appear in color.
Now, for the vocal tracks. I was impressed. The guy who sung for Fiyero was pretty bad, and Galinda was just so-so (well, compared to Kristin Chenoweth, "who isn't?"). But Elphaba was quite good, and offered a few nice changes for someone who doesn't want to sing it exactly like Idina Menzel. The man who sung for the Wizard was, well, "Wonderful." He had that Joel Grey style without sounding just like him. Overall, I would not buy the CD for another version of the Broadway Cast Recording, but if you're looking for a good listen on how some new people sing the same songs, it's really not bad. It's not in stereo, of course, because you can turn down the volume on one side and get just the background, which helps you check if you're on-key or not.
Hope this wasn't too comprehensive, but I wanted to give a really detailed review so people knew exactly why this karaoke version may or may not be good for them. As I previously stated, I think the Pocket Songs has a better-sounding background than this 2 CD-set. But if you need the vocal tracks to help you practice, or if you need one of the songs that's only on this CD, then you should get it. It's still a very good karaoke CD.
 Not a good idea November 11, 2005
55 out of 63 found this review helpful
This recording is not at all like the original cast recording. It is someone else's arrangement and not even done well. They are out of tune, the tempos are inconsistent, and sometimes the instruments even hit wrong notes! It is way overpriced for such poor quality. I have been nothing but disappointed with this CD.
Disappointing September 25, 2005
41 out of 43 found this review helpful
I wish I had read the other reviews for this album before I bought it. I was just so excited to have the fantastic music from "Wicked" in karaoke format that I made an impulse buy. And wow, did I make a mistake. To start with, the sound quality of the album is terrible. Some of the tracks are crackly, and almost all of them have poorly done synthesized orchestrations. Some of the chord progressions are actually incorrect. Tempos are strange. To top it off, the singers are just awful. They sound bland in the ensemble numbers, and some of the solos and duets are painfully off key. I am so utterly disappointed with this purchase. Unfortunately, Footlight is unable to give me a refund, and the rep who responded to my email said they have sold over 200 copies of this album and have not received a single complaint. I have contacted Stage Stars, the manufacturer of this album, and given them my opinion as well. Hopefully I'll have more luck getting a refund with them. I'll certainly never buy a Stage Stars recording again, now that I know the quality of work they produce.
Not good at all August 31, 2005
27 out of 31 found this review helpful
Firstly, the vocals are terrible, the singers are really bad. And the actual karaoke is bad too, it doesn't sound anything like the background music of the OCR (original cast recording). The only good thing WAS that it had NOMTW and SB and pocket songs didn't. (No one mourns the wicked and something bad.) But just now a new one has come out with those two songs and more that actually sounds like the OCR. So I think you should get the pocket songs one, and the other one with NOMTW and SB. And by the way, I'm not a kid i'm 13 I just didn't feel like signing in... :)
Poorly produced. September 2, 2006
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Avoid this disc! The tempos on are too slow, the instrumentals are very synthisized, and the orchestrations are less than accurate. A friend of mine bught it and asked me to work "For Good" with her, neither of us could hear where we were supposed to be and it was just SLOW. The only plus is this is the only version you can get with graphics. The Pocket Songs version is better and the most complete of all available versions. If you can find it, Priddis put out what I think is the best version on 2 discs. The tempos and orchestrations are nearly exact to the show. I think it may be discontinued as I've only been able to find a few of the Wicked songs available through Priddis on a disc with songs from the Wizard of Oz.
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