What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
fgreene1938
Leading Actor Joined: 10/25/06
#1What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 5:31pm
Lists are obviously going to be subjective, but here's mine:
1.) Caroline, or Change
2.) A Catered Affair
3.) The Light in the Piazza
4.) Grey Gardens
5.) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
6.) Urinetown
7.) Avenue Q
8.) Wicked
9.) Spring Awakening
10.) Sweet Smell of Success
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#2re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 5:34pm
Not in any order
9 to 5
Spring Awakening
Next to Normal
Company
[title of show]
Light in the Piazza
Wicked
Hair (Revival)
South Pacific (Revival)
Gypsy '08
Runner up: Bare: A Pop Opera
edit: the more I read other peoples' posts, the more I realized I had left some great ones out!
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Updated On: 7/21/09 at 05:34 PM
#2re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 5:47pm
By no means my favourite shows but I love listening to these recordings.
(No Particular Order)
*Bad Girls (Captures the music fantasticly)
*Patti Lupone Gypsy
*Hair Revival (Crystal Clear Sound, love it)
*Imagine This (Great for a live recording)
*Legally Blonde
*Priscilla (Great Songs just to listen to around the house)
*Spring Awakening
*[title of show]
*Xanadu (Great to just pop on and listen to)
*9 to 5 (Fantastic sound quality)
#3re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 5:50pm
I just heard the SISTER ACT recording in its entirety today and it's pretty fantastic. What a fun score.
I'm really looking forward to a Broadway transfer next year.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 7/20/09 at 05:50 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#4re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 5:52pm
1. Hair Revival
2. Next to Normal
3. Caroline, or Change
4. Sunday in the Park With George Revival
5. Grey Gardens
6. Company Revival
7. Spring Awakening
8. The Light in the Piazza
9. Dessa Rose (Random choice, but I love it so much.)
10. Sweeney Todd revival
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pli1018
Broadway Star Joined: 4/16/07
#5re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 5:53pmSame here somethingwicked, I cannot wait for it to make it to Broadway!
#6re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 5:59pm
In absolutely no particular order:
Hair revival
Wicked
next to normal
The Producers
South Pacific revival
Spring Awakening
The Wild Party (Lippa)
Legally Blonde (shoot me)
Grey Gardens
Gypsy (LuPone revival)
#7re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 5:59pmWhere are you two hearing the entire cast recording of Sister Act?
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#8re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 6:13pmSISTER ACT gets general release on July 27, but I believe it's been on sale at the theatre.
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#9re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 6:22pm
1. In The Heights
2. Hair (Revival)
3. Hair (Actors Fund)
4. [title of show]
5. The Last 5 Years
6. Company (Raul Revival)
7. Avenue Q
8. Next to Normal
#10re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 6:35pm
1. Taboo (London and Broadway)
2. Next To Normal
3. Bad Girls (Brilliant)
4. In The Heights
5. Avenue Q
6. Caroline Or Change
7. Legally Blonde (well recorded)
8. Priscilla
9. Hair
10. Toxic Avenger
Have to say i listened to Sister Act today and was not blown away at all
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#11re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 7:31pm
broadway122, I'm not in London, but someone I know who is received an early promotional copy and sent it my way.
The only disappointment for me was Katie Rowley Jones as Sister Mary Robert. Maybe she's great live, but she sounds awful on the recording. Anyone familiar with the previous version of "The Life I Never Led" will literally laugh out loud at the new ending. I'm guessing that change was made to accommodate the limits of her voice? She botches her big notes in "Raise Your Voice" too.
Other than that, I really enjoyed everything else. What a great opportunity for Patina Miller to showcase her talent. She couldn't be any more fantastic.
The show sure has come a long way since I saw it a few years ago (with Miller in the ensemble, no less!)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 7/20/09 at 07:31 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#12re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 7:38pm
In no particular order.
1. Company (Revival)
2. Hair (Revival)
3. Spring Awakening
4. Sweeney Todd (Revival)
5. Aida
6. In the Heights
7. Next to Normal
8. Wicked (Very well recorded and produced)
9. Thoroughly Modern Millie
10. Gypsy (LuPone Revival)
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#13re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 7:53pm
Patina Miller is electric, how I wish I could have seen her in HAIR. I'm looking forward to seeing her play Derolis on Broadway.
No specific order except for the number one:
1-CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (the cast recording has a major technical problem but it doesn't take away from the perfection of the performances, the great sound, the thrilling orchestrations, and the fact that it's one of the best shows ever written)
2-HAIR-2009 Revival (a gazillion times better than the '04 AFB recording)
3-NINE-2003 Revival (I mean Antonio Banderas, Jane Krakowski, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chita Rivera, Laura Benanti, Mary Beth Piel)
4-GREY GARDENS-Broadway Cast (Erin Davie was a great addition and the score was in top shape when they got to Broadway)
5-LOVEMUSIK (Weill's songs performed by Donna Murphy with brilliant Tunick orchestrations, need I say more?)
6-IN THE HEIGHTS (fun, electric, well-produced, nicely-acted, Andrea Burns' "Carnaval del Barrio" and Karen Olivo's vocals every time she opens her mouth are just a few of the highlights)
7-LaChiusa's THE WILD PARTY
8-WICKED (not a great score but I think it's a good and enjoyable cast recording)
9-THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (what a beautiful score and what a great recording)
10-SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE- '06 London cast (the slow tempos are a tiny bit annoying, but overall it's nice to hear the score without having to have the volume all the way up...SUNDAY OBCR, I'm looking at you).
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#14re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 8:09pm
(in no particular order)
1. The Light in the Piazza
2. Sweeney Todd (Revival)
3. Spring Awakening
4. Next to Normal
5. In the Heights
6. Bare: A Pop Opera
7. Company (Revival)
8. Grey Gardens
9. Sunday in the Park with George (Revival)
10. [title of show]
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
fgreene1938
Leading Actor Joined: 10/25/06
#15re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 8:16pm
Interesting lists. I didn't include revivals in my list so here is my Top 10 for the last decade:
1.) Gypsy (2003 Revival)
2.) Flower Drum Song
3.) Pacific Overutres
4.) Nine
5.) West Side Story
6.) 110 in the Shade
7.) Assassins
8.) Bells Are Ringing
9.) South Pacific
10.) Sweeney Todd
#16re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 8:33pmThe Sister Act cast recording is pretty fantastic, but I'm not quite sure that it's great enough to be on this list.
#17re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 8:33pm
no particular order
1. Hair (revival)
2. Hair (actors'fund)
3. Spring Awakening
4. Company
5. Sweeney Todd
6. Aida
7. Urinetown
8. Wicked
9. Next to Normal
10. [title of show]
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#18re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/20/09 at 9:17pm
1. Gypsy (03)
2. Company (06)
3. Light in the Piazza
4. Next To Normal
5. Nine
6. Road Show
7. Sweeney Todd (05)
8. Shrek
9. In the Heights
10. Assassins
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#19re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:32am
In no order at all:
1. Next to Normal
2. Spring Awakening
3. Grey Gardens
4. Company
5. Lippa's The Wild Party
6. Last Five Years
7. Wicked
8. Aida
9. In the Heights
10. Bright Lights Big City (concept, ya i think it may have been 1999, but i'm adding it anyway!)
Spring Awakening 7.3.07!!, Wicked/ Rent 7.5.07!!, Legally Blonde 7.6.07!! The Color Purple 7.7.07!!, Gypsy 8.19.08!!, In the Heights/Wicked 8.20.08!!, The Little Mermaid 8.21.08!! Legally Blonde Tour 11.9.08!! Shrek 7.7.09!!, Blithe Spririt 7.8.09!!, 9 to 5 7.9.09!!, Next to Normal 7.10.09!!
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#20re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:07am
In no particular order:
1. Next to Normal
2. Grey Gardens (OBC)
3. Gypsy (LuPone Revival)
4. The Light in the Piazza
5. In the Heights
6. Spring Awakening
7. Hair (2009 Revival)
8. Caroline, or Change
9. 9 to 5
10. Bare
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#21re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:09am
Ones I keep going back to are Urinetown and Spring Awakening.
Having a blast right now with Rock of Ages. That Maroulis can hit the high notes. Love the depth Paul Schoeffler brings, wish there was more of him.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#22re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:59am
No mentions for the glorious SOUTH PACIFIC album?
Or PASSING STRANGE?
#23re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:33am
no order
1. next to normal
2. south pacific revival
3. gypsy (lupone)
4. hair revival
5. spring awakening
6. avenue q
7. in the heights
8. [title of show]
9. 9 to 5
10. wicked
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#24re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:10pm
Oh, no! I completely forgot about SOUTH PACIFIC. That recording is glorious. I'll have to have 11 favorites.
As for PASSING STRANGE, the only song that I frequently listen to is "Come Down Now." That song is so beautiful.
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