Jerry Springer: the Opera [Import]

jerry springer: the opera [import]

Track Listings

1. Overtly-Ture Full Company

2. Audience Very Plainsong

3. Ladies & Gentlemen

4. Have Yourselves A Good Time

5. Bigger Than Oprah Winfrey

6. Foursome Guests

7. I've Been Seeing Someone Else

8. Chick With A Dick

9. Talk To The Hand

10. Adverts 1

11. Intro To Diaper Man

12. Diaper Man

13. Montel Cums Dirty

14. This Is My Jerry Springer Moment

15. Mama Gimmee Smack On The A**Hole

16. I Wanna Sing Something Beautiful

17. Adverts 2

18. First Time I Saw Jerry

19. Backstage Scene

20. Poledancer

See all 47 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The Jerry Springer phenomenon hits the West End as the biggest smash hit musical for years transfers from the National Theatre in an explosive, filthy, funny and brilliantly original show that has had critics and punters alike falling over themselves to praise this ultimate pairing of high and low art. This double album was recorded live during the show's sell-out run at the National, capturing every outrageous minute of the show they have called ''the biggest thrill for decades''. Sony. 2003.

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Jerry Springer: the Opera [Import]

Average customer rating:

Awful...truly witless, vulgar and awful.
Lucky me. I saw it on TV
The most offensive show ever written.
Tragic lives, large and small.
Amazing, this show is my guilty pleasure!

Jerry Springer: the Opera
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-01-06

Tracks:

Overtly-Ture Full Company
Audience Very Plainsong
Ladies & Gentlemen
Have Yourselves A Good Time
Bigger Than Oprah Winfrey
Foursome Guests
I've Been Seeing Someone Else
Chick With A Dick
Talk To The Hand
Adverts 1
Intro To Diaper Man
Diaper Man
Montel Cums Dirty
This Is My Jerry Springer Moment
Mama Gimmee Smack On The A**Hole
I Wanna Sing Something Beautiful
Adverts 2
First Time I Saw Jerry
Backstage Scene
Poledancer
I Just Wanna Dance
It Has No Name
Some Are Descended From Angels
Jerrycam
Klan Entrance/End Of Act One
Gloomy Nurses
Purgatory Dawning
Eat Excrete
Haunting
Him Am The Devil
Every Last Mother F**Ker Should Go Down
Grilled & Roasted
Transition Music
Once In Happy Realms Of Light
F**K You Talk
Satan & Jesus Spat
Adam & Eve & Mary
Where Were You?
Behold God
Marriage Of Heaven & Hell
This Is My Cheesey
Jerry It Is Finished
Jerry Eleison
Please Don't Die
Take Care
Martin's Richard-Esque Finale De Grand Fromage
Play Out

Album Description

The Jerry Springer phenomenon hits the West End as the biggest smash hit musical for years transfers from the National Theatre in an explosive, filthy, funny and brilliantly original show that has had critics and punters alike falling over themselves to praise this ultimate pairing of high and low art. This double album was recorded live during the show's sell-out run at the National, capturing every outrageous minute of the show they have called ''the biggest thrill for decades''. Sony. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Awful...truly witless, vulgar and awful........2006-07-09

I can't believe the ratings on this score...4's and 5's? Really? This score is truly awful. Written in a one-joke operatic style that quickly becomes excrutiatingly boring...wit and style is replaced with crudeness and vulgarity (granted it's Jerry Springer-inspired) in the libretto.

The performances are fine, but one listena to these discs (which takes forever) and you note three things: the audience is truly unresponsive to the show (a live recording was a poor choice)...the idea itself is intriguing and might have worked in more talented hands...and, there is absolutely no reason to ever listen to this score again.

I'll be truly surprised if it survives in New York, if indeed it ever makes the crossing. A major disappointment.

Lucky me. I saw it on TV.......2006-05-23

Since I'm currently living in Australia, I have been blessed to see the BBC live broadcast of Jerry Springer, the Opera, on television. I was stunned and enthralled, taped the repeat performance the next day, and have watched it many times since. The staging is no less brilliant than the singing and acting. The casting is more than perfect, it's inspired. I can't see how any other production could ever match it. I raved to everyone I know and invited them over for a viewing. Most said they were sure they would hate it, but once they saw it, they entirely changed their minds. How could they not? This is one of the greatest theatrical experiences of all time - a work of original genius on the grand scale. Question: since this marvelous video production exists,why isn't available in the US? I want so much to give it as a gift to my hosts on my upcoming trip to America, but the US and OZ use different video systems. I looked into Amazon and found only the CD. Why doesn't Amazon acquire distribution rights for the video?

The most offensive show ever written........2005-12-15

If you're the type whose conscience bruises easily, click the back button on your browser immediately and don't turn back, lest ye be turned into a pillar of salt.

Jerry Springer: the Opera is not for the faint of heart. The playful, un-PC cheekiness only hinted at in shows like Avenue Q and The Producers is on full, raunchy display here.

The first act plays like a musicalized and uncensored version of a typical episode of the television show, where adulterers and fetishists are given an international forum to come unhinged, while the guests with the least fault to bear are stripped of their humanity and mocked.

But it's the second and third acts that are raising eyebrows the world over. In them, Jerry Springer goes to Hell after getting shot (in one of the most deliriously outrageous act one finales ever staged). There, he is forced to host a version of his show in the afterlife, featuring Satan, Adam, Eve, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and God Himself as his guests.

Anyone with half an imagination to devote to that scenario can only imagine that Biblical characters + Jerry Springer Show = a delicious recipe for controversy (or, as one church in England put it, "high blasphemy").

It should be said that this show has also been condemned as anti-American. This is preposterous; with the exception of some brief but highly satirical "commercial breaks" (that poke fun at Americans' love of Viagra, Jesus, guns and more), this musical is about as anti-American as the Jerry Springer show itself.

Musically, the score is incredibly rich. It is written in a traditionally presentational operatic style (the only character who doesn't sing all of his dialogue throughout the show is our host, Jerry Springer), but is thoroughly infused with rock, jazz and theatrical tonalities. Indeed, some of the ballads here could, if stripped of their ridiculous contexts, easily be inserted into any serious book musical. The singers are all incredible. They range from classically trained voices, to musical theatre veterans, to rock/pop-type singers -- a mixture as eclectic as the guest list of a typical Jerry Springer show.

But, above and beyond any hype, what is so incredibly groundbreaking about this opera is the way the music and especially the lyrics effortlessly transition from mildly offensive pastiche, into wildly offensive light opera, and then into incredibly moving high opera. The third act finale of this show packs a genuine emotional wallop the likes of which I haven't experienced in a theatre since the first time I saw Les Miserables.

It feels weird to type that about something called "Jerry Springer: the Opera" -- but there you have it.

It would be nice to see this opera get a highly polished studio recording someday, but in the meantime, you don't need to feel as if you're "settling" by purchasing this CD, because even though this recording is live, the quality is very high.

Tragic lives, large and small. .......2005-12-13

Passion. Betrayal. Lust. Anger. Vengeance. Grand emotions, often enlisted to give classic opera its grandeur.

But what if these emotions lie in the heart not of a jilted Rhinemaiden nor a jealous valkyrie, but a trailer-dwelling beautician from Dubuque? Can we sing about them in the same way? That's the conceit behind this extraordinary piece of theatre...that even the lowliest amongst us live lives of high drama in our own heads.

That's act one. Act two turns the tables. What if the players in the grandest, most noble story of them all--the passion of the Christ--were to be reunited in a Jerry Springer-style face-off? With all the attendant petty bickering, squabbling and mean spiritedness?

I saw the show in London, and it truly blew me away. The line between the sacred and the profane, the noble and the venal, the tragic and the silly: these lines aren't just crossed, they're twisted, mangled and torched.

You'll find yourself laughing at the sheer absurdity of swear words sung to high opera. But there's something deeper going on here...the grand music and base sentiments made me question how vain we human beings can be if we think our grubby little lives are important enough to be considered the stuff of tragedy.

Some of my fellow reviewers decry the prolific swearing. But it's the most artful obscenity I've heard in a long time. OK, it would be juvenile for an actor on stage to call another character a c**t. But it's another thing entirely if the character is Satan himself, and a twenty-strong choir of angels, sings in perfect harmony and arpeggio, "he's a c**t, a c**t, a c**ty, c**ty, c**ty, c**ty, c**ty, c**ty, c**ty, c**ty, c**********************t!" Blurs the line between the sacred and profane, indeed.

(Sorry, Amazon, there's no way to discuss this record without some allusion to the lyrics!)

Some reviewers have noted that this recording features a live performance, with an audience likely chosen for its enthusiastic response. The fidelity is not so bad, considering. After all, operatic voices at full volume are pretty easy for a mike to pick up.

Buy this CD, and when the show hits Broadway, brave the inevitable mobs of fundie protesters to buy a ticket. It's worth it.

Amazing, this show is my guilty pleasure!.......2005-10-14

I have to say, I cannot wait until this show makes it debut on Broadway. But then again, it sounds so much better and it should stay in London. It's pefect comedy satire!

I purchased "professionally taped" Jerry Springer: The Opera video at a book sale, and I have gotten through half of it, I will say that it is an AMAZING musical.

It's everything I wanted to see in a Broadway show but I was afraid to voice it. This musical is delightful, witty, and the talent is amazing.

The best song for me currently is "Talk to the Hand", I find myself humming it when I think of the man who was cheating on his wife with another woman, then cheating on both of them with a transvestite.

It'd probably be best if you see this show, but still--buy this cd! Imported or not, London is always lovely!

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Jerry Springer Opera
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Average customer rating:

Great show
Well, dip me in chocolate & throw me to the...
Ladies and Gentlemen, People of Most Nations of the World
Unlike Avenue Q, this is a disappointment
A great gift for the twisted among you!

Jerry Springer - The Opera
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ASIN: B0000D9PRR

Tracks:

Overlyture
Audience Very Plainsong
Ladies And Gentlemen
Have Yourselves A Good Time
Bigger Than Oprah Winfrey
Foursome Guests
Ive Been Seeing Someone Else
Chick With A Dick
Talk To The Hand
Adverts 1
Intro To Diaper Man
Diaper Man
Montel Cums Dirty
This Is My Jerry Springer Moment
Mama Gimmee Smack On The Asshole
I Wanna Sing Something Beautiful
Adverts 2
The First Time I Saw Jerry
Backstage Scene
Poledancer
I Just Wanna Dance
It Has No Name
Some Are Descended From Angels
Jerrycam
Klan Entrance End Of Act One
Gloomy Nurses
Purgatory Dawning
Eat Excrete
The Haunting
Him Am The Devil
Every Last Mother Fucker Should Go Down
Grilled And Roasted
Transition Music
Once In Happy Realms Of Light
Fuck You Talk
Satan And Jesus Spat
Adam And Eve And Mary
Where Were You
Behold God
It Aint Easy Being Me (Part 1)
It Aint Easy Being Me (Part 2)
Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
This Is My Cheesey Jerry Springer Moment
Jerry It Is Finished
Jerry Eleison
Please Dont Die
Take Care
Martins Richardesque Finale De Grand Fromage
Play Out

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

Great show.......2004-05-22

Just returned from London where I and my wife saw Jerry Springer The Opera at the Cambridge theater. I loved it while my wife was a bit more lukewarm while still liking it. I immediately bought the soundtrack and wished I had heard it before seeing the show. Like all operatic type performances it was sometimes hard to make out some of the lyrics especially when the entire chorus was singing. It would have been helpful to have been familair with the lyrics. And the lyrics are important here. Lots of toying around with various operatic and classical music conventions, but it's really a kind of pop opera. And no one, even the most operaphobic should be scared off by the classical pretentions. It's tuneful, it's got some great dancing (including a group of Klansmen -- has to be seen to be believed). Some of the music is surprisingly beautiful, a dud or two, but it has energy in the same way that Rent does (but JS:TO is much, much better). And it's just plain funny. Yes, you have to get beyond the sophomoric use of every vulgar word in the English language, and yes, the second act would be offensive to the conservative Christian crowd (as Springer in hell tries to deal with Satan who wants an apology from God, and Adam, Eve, Jesus, Mary, and God all appear as "guests" on the show from hell). But I thought it was hilarious, and it was a real treat to see supposedly uptight English folks (and not just the younger ones), laughing really hard. In fairness, a few people left at intermission including an American couple sitting next to us who found it offensive and silly. It's surely not for the faint of heart or younger kids (even though they probably know more variations on the vulgar words than most adults). The show is coming to Broadway next year after a few months in San Francisco. It may not be the big hit here that it has been in Britain, although American critics have been very positive about the London show. In any event for my money it's the best new musical in years, and I highly recommend the soundtrack especially preparatory to seeing the show. The music stands on its own, but you really have to see the show.

Well, dip me in chocolate & throw me to the..........2004-05-03

... Buy the CD and listen to it a couple times. Then get ready to see the show! It's coming to the states! I saw the Opera at the Cambridge theater in London and loved every minute! The CD purchase was an impulse buy, but I find myself listening to it all the time. The music & singing is excellent. The show will be playing in San Fran for 6 weeks and then moving to NYC. So try and see it! I sure will!

Ladies and Gentlemen, People of Most Nations of the World.......2004-03-21

This is the BEST show I have ever heard. It will offend you, make you cringe, make you laugh, make you cry, and send you away with a spring in your step and a song in your heart. It deserved to win the Olivier outright. What other show gives you all those emotions? NONE! The music is phenominal, the lyrics are quite catchy (not a good idea to listen to this CD on your way to work. I don't know how many times I've caught myself singing lyrics that are SO NOT work appropriate.) and the cast (especially the chorus, who earned their Olivier) is well, I'm running out of adjectives. Let's just say WOW!! I will admit that the woman playing Shawntel has the best moment in the show. Her song "I Just Wanna Dance" is such a powerful song, you forget all the "F" words and other swearing. Her voice just soars and brings a tear to my eye. But enough of that. If you want to offend everyone you know, but, have yourself a good time doing it and add some culture to your life , then BUY THIS CD. I really hopes it plays in the states. I'd love to actually see the show.

Unlike Avenue Q, this is a disappointment.......2004-01-15

I saw the Jerry Springer Opera on a trip with a bunch of people from theatre camp, and suffice to say, it was one of the more disappointing ones. I laughed a few times, but that was only about three times through the show. I understand how some people enjoyed it, but it's the same humour you'd find in an Ashton Kutcher movie: none. They're right in thinking that all they have to do is drop an F bomb and they'll get some laughs (since they did), but that doesn't make it funny. The show could have been really good, but it's nothing but dick and fart jokes defending its writing by calling itself an opera. If you want opera, go see Turandot. If you want a funny musical that knows how to use its material, go see Avenue Q. If you want a cheap laugh, then see Springer.

A great gift for the twisted among you!.......2003-12-03

I saw this production in at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, before the show moved to its current run in London. I've had a hard time trying to tell my friends what exactly this show is like - the closest I've come to is:

Take one part Eric Cartman, one part bad, BAD American daytime-television, another part of Judeo-Christian mythology, and all the Andrew Lloyd-Webber angst you've ever had, throw them all into a blender, and the resulting product is this CD set.

It will probably gravely offend you - but you'll die laughing well before that point (so it's no big deal...)

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1. Overtly-Ture Full Company
2. Audience Very Plainsong
3. Ladies & Gentlemen
4. Have Yourselves A Good Time
5. Bigger Than Oprah Winfrey
6. Foursome Guests
7. I've Been Seeing Someone Else
8. Chick With A Dick
9. Talk To The Hand
10. Adverts 1
11. Intro To Diaper Man
12. Diaper Man
13. Montel Cums Dirty
14. This Is My Jerry Springer Moment
15. Mama Gimmee Smack On The A**Hole
16. I Wanna Sing Something Beautiful
17. Adverts 2
18. First Time I Saw Jerry
19. Backstage Scene
20. Poledancer
See all 47 tracks on this disc