The original cast recording of "She Loves Me" with Barbara Cook, perfection.
The original cast recording of Frank Loesser's "Most Happy Fella" with those lush high calorie Don Walker orchestrations.
The cast recording of "The Golden Apple" which shows you what a sung-through musical can really be like. With a cast of such talents that they improved lesser musicals by merely appearing in them. One small problem is that it is only half of the score, and it has narrative rhyming couplets liking the songs, but as they were written by lyricist John LaTouche, they are forgivable.
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
I just watned to say that I purchased Bernarda Alba yesterday on a whim, and I fell in love with it instantly! Seeing the show was amazing and I think, for the first time in a long time, the recording brings the listener into the show and carries you. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
Jack: For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay.
Will: Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay.
Jack: Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?
Grace: My dog knew.
I think that the cast recordings of The Light in The Piazza and Bright Lights, Big City are in my top 10. In fact, my top 10 cast recordings are:
1. Wicked 2. Rent 3. Brooklyn 4. Monty Python's Spamalot 5. The Light in the Piazza 6. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 7. The Color Purple 8. Jersey Boys 9. The Wedding Singer 10. Bright Lights, Big City
For me, these shows are gems.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
It is very rare that I find a CD that I listen to every track. Here are mine:
1) Beauty and the Beast 2) She Loves Me (1993 Revival) 3) Jersey Boys 4) 42nd Street 5) Disney's On the Record 6) Chicago (film soundtrack...minus all the weird hip hop tracks at the end)
The Light in the Piazza OBCR is it for me. I listen to it straight through every time and feel as if I'm insulting the music if I skip a song.
Not only that, but it's the only recording that still has the same emotional impact on me that it did the first time I listened to it.
"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you."
- Maya Angelou
Evita (OBC) Sweeney Todd (OBC Double LP and Hilights CD) Sweeney Todd (2005) The Phantom Of the Opera (OLC Hilights--only because I don't have the 2 disc set) Les Miserables (OBC--it would be hard to skip anything anyway since it's a cassette tape)
Les Miserables (TAC, OLC, and CSR) - The show is just... unbelievably amazing! Each cast recordings are different and gives a totally fresh sounding.
Ragtime (Canadian Concept Cast) - Sadly, I didn't know it was the "highlights" version (I didn't see OBC when I bought it at Tower Records), but it's just simply amazing! Probably the one I listen to the most often. I just can't get enough of Mitchel singing "Wheels of a Dream" and Audra McDonald's emotional "Your Daddy's Son"
The Light in the Piazza - Sometimes, I fall asleep to the music since it's so soothing! Anyways, it's a great cast recording!
Miss Saigon - Alright, I skip some songs, so basically, I like the highlighs.
Sweeney Todd (OBC and Revival) - It's just amazing.
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
Rent OBC Annie Get Your Gun Revival Aida Beauty and the Beast The Wedding Singer A Little Night Music Camelot Mamma Mia Wicked Hairspray A Chorus Line Avenue Q Fantasticks The Last 5 Years Fiddler on The Roof Little Shop of Horrors Little Woman My Fair Lady 25th Annual Putnam County West Side Story Movie
"Passion can drive you crazy but is there any other way to live"
Yeah, I know. But why spend $20 on something I already have just to have it on a thin circle of plastic? When my tape wears out, THEN I'll have a reason to get the CD. It would just be a waste of my money (and I've heard the CD with a friend, so don't try to give me any crap about the sound quality being better).
The Last 5 Years- Absolute perfection and my ultimate favorite! I listen to this atleast 3 times all the way through within a week. DRS Avenue Q The Wedding Singer RENT (OBCR and movie soundtrack) tick,tick..BOOM!
The Last 5 Years especially. In every song, both of their voices are completely up to par. Not to mention with Jason Robert Brown's incredible music and lyrics, why would you WANT to skip any of the songs. Love love LOVE it.