I've had an audio tape of My Fair Lady ever since I was pretty young. I think the first one I bought myself was The Producers.
"Godspell" is the first one I remember listening to over and over, followed quickly by "Cats." "Rum Tum Tugger" was always my favorite as a little kid. What a shocker that I am a huge Terrence Mann fan today!
Bought with my own money? I guess it was "Aspects of Love." I was obsessed with it. (Still am!)
In 1967 I purchased "Sweet Charity" -- the original Broadway cast -- it was mis-priced at Thrifty Drug Store -- the Stereo version was $2.99.
Still one of my favorites, and I have hundreds of OBC recordings.
Tommy
MAME w/ Angela Lansbury
My first was the movie version of Little Shop of Horrors which opened the door to the OBCR of Phantom of the Opera. After that was a CD of ALW songs then EVITA, CATS and LESMISERABLES - in that order.
Oh...Phantom! - My first love of the stage!
My first OCR was RENT, which my friend Alex got me into.
Not sure the first one I bought was, the first one I ever heard was Damn Yankees. My dad use to sing You Gotta Have Heart to my brother because it was the only way he would calm down.
I believe the absolute first was Miss Saigon
Or maybe Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman
RENThead, enLIGHist, Ozalot, Grobanite, Ringer, Pickwick LW, Wicked, Lost, American Dreams, West Wing
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Stand-by Joined: 2/15/05
The first Broadway albums I listened to were the classic originals that I checked out from the library (OKLAHOMA, MY FAIR LADY, SOUND OF MUSIC). The first one I bought was either the soundtrack for the film version of THE KING AND I or the film version of KISS ME KATE (On LPs).
Chorus Member Joined: 4/18/05
The soundtrack to "DAMN YANKEES" followed by the Broadway cast of "CAMELOT".
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
A Chorus Line.... on vinyl.
I wore SUCH a hole through that record. lol
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
The first OBCR I remember having in my house was EVITA. The first one I bought myself, though, was probably......RENT!
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
My first one to *legally buy*...I legally received the entire CD of Godspell 2001 Touring Cast through a free-trial thingy..and my first CD to buy was Funny Girl (July 2004).
I had always meant to buy Into The Woods on CD...seeing how I obsessed over the show for 10 months..
Swing Joined: 4/24/05
I think mine was the Man of la Mancha OBC or the Into the Woods Revival CR when I was 14. I got the Grease OBC on tape when I was 10 because I was in it at school.
Johanna
Annie when I was 7
Les Miserables
OLCR of Les Miserables that my parents bought me. The first one I probably bought myself was...Cats. Although I could be mistaken I think that probably is the one I did buy myself.
Understudy Joined: 11/23/04
That would probably be West Side Story.
Bought myself? I don't know probobly Annie Get Your Gun revival cast. But I know that when I was little I had Annie, My Fair Lady, Bye Bye Birdie and a bunch more on tape. Oh and I think I stole Les Mis from my mother too, I remember not really understanding it but loving it all the same, lol!
Another vote for A Chorus Line!
My parents had the cassettes to Phantom and I loved it so much as an 8 year old that I made my friends perform it with me. I was the only one I allowed to be Christine. Hee hee. Ah, the late eighties. Les Miserables was the first one I actually owned. I think my grandmother gave it to me for my birthday. The first one I ever bought myself with my own allowance money was Aspects of Love. I think...
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
I listened to RENT...if you consider that listening to your first...but I think mine was Assassins (04' Revival). If you count London, Les Mis.
My friends gave me Little Shop of Horrors, A chorus line,CSR Les Miz, Jane Enyre (sp), Urinetown,Zanna Don't,Assasins, Your a Good Man Charlie brown. I bought Wicked.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
my first was My Fair Lady 10 years ago.
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