one performer on multiple OCRs

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 2:52pm

I was thinking lately that a lot of my Broadway cast recordings share performers. I choose my albums based on the shows, not the singers, but I guess I'm just drawn to some performers. Or some performers are drawn to shows that I am also drawn to, I don't know. But I thought this would make an interesting discussion.

Who do you have on multiple recordings in your collection?

I have:
Idina (Rent and Wicked)
Adam Pascal (Rent and Aida)
Norbert (Wicked and DRS)
Sherie Rene Scott (DRS and Aida)

I'm sure there are more, but I don't know the names of all the ensemble members and I don't have the CD booklets with me. It would be really interesting to see if any of the chorus members are the same.

So, who shows up multiple times in your Broadway collection?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 2:56pm

Bernadette Peters (GYPSY, SUNDAY..., SONG AND DANCE, INTO THE WOODS, MACK & MABEL, DAMES AT SEA, and probably more that I'm forgetting.

Angela Lansbury (GYPSY, MAME, SWEENEY TODD, DEAR WORLD, prob. more)

I don't think it's really interesting. People who are talented work.

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 2:58pm

Yeah, plus all Sondheim albums are going to be linked by a Merle Louise, a Pamela Myers or another of his favorites.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 3:02pm

* Vicki Clark - Light in the Piazza, Titanic
* Norbert Leo Butz - Wicked, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and The Last 5 Years
* Idina Menzel - RENT, Wicked
* Adam Pascal - Aida, RENT
* Kristin Chenoweth - Wicked, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
* Anthony Rapp - RENT, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
* Len Cariou - Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music
* Mandy Patinkin - Sunday in the Park With George, The Secret Garden
* Donna McKechnie - A Chorus Line, Company
* Bernadette Peters - Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods
* Patti LuPone - Evita, Sweeney Todd
* Michael Cerveris - Sweeney Todd, Assassins, Titanic
* Anthony Crivello - Les Miserables, Kiss of the Spider-Woman, Jane Eyre
* Brent Carver - Kiss of the Spider Woman, Parade
* Chita Rivera - Kiss of the Spider Woman, Chicago, Nine, West Side Story
* Gwen Verdon - Chicago, Sweet Charity
* Anthony Warlow - Les Miserables, Jekyll & Hyde
* Gary Beach - Les Miserables, The Producers
* Roger Bart - The Producers, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
* Carolee Carmello - Jekyll & Hyde, Parade
* Angela Lockett - Jane Eyre, Parade
* Sherie Rene Scott - The Last 5 Years, Aida, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
* Marin Mazzee - Ragtime, Passion

That's all I can think of right off the top of my head. I'm sure there are many, many more

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 03:02 PM

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 3:16pm

Julie Andrews- My Fair Lady, Camelot
Idina Menzel- Rent, Wicked
Matthew Morrison- Hairspray, The Light in the Piazza
Bernadette Peters- Dames at Sea, Into the Woods, Gypsy
William Youmans- La Boheme, Wicked

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 03:16 PM

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 3:23pm

EDIT: The ones I listed were already listed and are listed after my post, too.

Carry on.

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 03:23 PM

[Maile]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 3:31pm

Colm Wilkinson - Les Mis, Toronto Phantom, Concept Jekyll & Hyde, Studio Evita.

Mark Jacoby - Man of La Mancha revival, Showboat, Sweeney Revival.

Bernadette Peters - Annie Get Your Gun, Into the Woods.

Michael Cerveris - Sweeney, Tommy, Assassins.

Patti Lupone - Evita, Sweeney, Sunset Blvd.

Michael Ball - London Passion concert, Aspects of Love

Elaine Page - Cats, London Chess

Murray Head (does he count?!) - JC Superstar, London Chess

Marcia Mitzman - Bway Chess, Tommy

Liliane Montevecchi - Grand Hotel, Nine

David Carroll - Chess, Grand Hotel

And god, there's probably plenty more...

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 3:47pm

Norbert Leo Butz- Wicked, The Last 5 Years, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Thou Shalt Not, The Confidence Man

Michael Cerveris- Titanic, Sweeney Todd Revival, Assassins Revival

Adam Pascal- RENT, Aida

Raul Esparza- Rocky Horror Show Revival, tick, tick...BOOM!

Anthony Rapp- RENT, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Kristin Chenoweth- Wicked, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Idina Menzel- Wicked, RENT, See What I Wanna See, The Wild Party

Victoria Clark- Light in the Piazza, Titanic

Matt Morrison- Light in the Piazza, Hairspray

Brian d'Arcy James- The Wild Party, Titanic

Sherie Rene Scott- Aida, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Last 5 Years

Roger Bart- The Producers, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown


This is all I can think of off the top of my head.

[acrocksyo]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 3:57pm

Kerry Butler - Bat Boy, Hairspray, Prodigal, Little Shop of Horrors

Pretty much everything else has been listed already

[FrontRowCenter2]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 4:03pm

Some in my collection that I haven't seen posted yet:

Streisand: Funny Girl, I Can Get It For You Wholesale

Lauren Bacall: Woman of the Year, Applause

Jerry Orbach: Promises, Promises 42nd Street, Chicago, The Fantasticks

Kristen Chenoweth: Wicked, Charlie Brown, A New Brain, Steel Pier

Barbara Cook: The Music Man, Candide, She Loves Me, Carousel

Joel Grey: Wicked, George M, Cabaret

Robert Preston: I Do I Do, The Music Man, Ben Franklin in Paris

OK, there's plenty more, but this is getting tiresome!! :)

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 04:03 PM

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 4:05pm

Umm...Ken Jennings on the Sweeney OBC and Urinetown?

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 4:30pm

* Hunter Foster - Footloose, Urinetown, Little Shop of Horrors
* Sutton Foster - Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Drowsy Chaperone
* Jennifer Laura Thompson - Footloose, Urinetown
* Kerry Butler - Hairspray, Bat Boy, Little Shop of Horrors
* Douglas Sills - The Scarlet Pimpernel, Little Shop of Horrors
* Terrance Mann - Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Assassins
* Joel Grey - Cabaret, Chicago, Wicked
* Ken Jennings - Urinetown, Sweeney Todd
* Matt Morrison - Hairspray, The Light in the Piazza

Once again...I'm sure I'll think of more as time goes on

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 5:05pm

There have to be too many dozens and dozens of doubles.

Off the top of my head my guess for the most would be
Bernadette Peters
George M!
Dames at Sea
Mack and Mabel
Sunday in the Park with George
Song and Dance
Into the Woods
The Goodbye Girl
Anyone Can Whistle - Concert Cast
Sherry!

9-Plus
Annie Film Soundtrack

Mary Martin (9)
On the Town
South Pacific
Babes in Arms - Studio Cast
Girl Crazy - Studio Cast
Peter Pan
Annie Get Your Gun - Studio Cast
The Sound of Music
Jennie
I Do! I Do!

Alfred Drake (6)
Oklahoma!
Kiss Me, Kate
Kismet
Kean
Carousel - Studio Cast
Gigi

Robert Preston (4) + 2
The Music Man
Ben Franklin in Paris
I Do! I Do!
Mack and Mabel

Soundtracks
The Music Man
Victor/Victoria

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 05:05 PM

[achancetofly]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 5:25pm

Yeah, there's a lot.


Let's see...

Bernadette Peters (Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park With George),
Sutton Foster (Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Idina Menzel (Rent, Wicked, Wild Party, See What I Wanna See)
Jesse L. Martin (Rent, Bright Lights, Big City)
Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Steel Pier, A New Brain)
Joel Grey (Chicago, Wicked, Cabaret)
Ethel Merman (Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy)
Jerry Orbach (42nd Street, Chicago, The Fantasticks)
Ken Jennings (Sweeney Todd, Urinetown)
Matt Morrison (Hairspray, Light in the Piazza)
Norbert Leo Butz (Wicked, Last Five Years, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Sherie Rene Scott (Aida, Last Five Years, Bright Lights, Big City, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Celia Keenan Bolger (25th Annual, Bright Lights, Big City)
Eden Espinosa (BKLYN, Bright Lights, Big City)
Kerry Butler (Bat Boy, Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors)
Jennifer Laura Thompson (Urinetown, Footloose)
Adam Pascal (Rent, Aida)
Anthomy Rapp (Rent, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Mandy Patinkin (Wild Party, Sunday in the Park With George)
Michael Cerveris (Assassins, Sweeney Todd)
Roger Bart (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Producers)
Raul Esparza (tick, tick..boom!, Rocky Horror revival)
Amy Spanger (tick, tick...boom!, Wedding Singer)


Yeah..there's definitely more, but that's who I'm coming up with now, and most of them are repeats of the former posts. *shrug*

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 5:28pm

Forgot about:
Barbara Cook (7)

Flahooley
Plain and Fancy
The Music Man
The Gay Life
Show Boat - Studio Cast
She Loves Me
The Grass Harp


I think there might be a couple more I am forgetting

Updated On: 10/20/06 at 05:28 PM

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 5:41pm

I can't believe I can't think of more Ethel Merman and Julie Andrews. I am pretty sure I don't have many, but I will have to sort through them. There must be people out there with 15 or more Merman recordings. And Jack Cassidy must be up there I just can't think of them. Barbra Streisand would be up there heavily weighted with films I only have 3 OCRs, but there must be more.


Updated On: 10/20/06 at 05:41 PM

[FosterChild]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 8:15pm

Orfeh is on Footloose, Great American Trailer Park, and if we're counting these sort of recordings, she's on The Hair and Dreamgirls Actors'fund benefit Cd's as well. The biggest shame is that there was never an American cast recording of Fever, I would have loved an actual "clean" version of Orfeh singing "If I Can't Have You".

[ByMySide25]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 8:44pm

Michael Cerveris
(Assassins, Sweeney Todd)

Daphne Rubin-Vega
(Rent, Rocky Horror)

Idina Menzel
(Rent, The Wild Party, Wicked)

Taye Diggs
(Rent, The Wild Party)

Kristen Lee Kelly
(Rent, Rocky Horror)

Aiko Nakasone
(Rent, Rocky Horror)

Raul Esparza
(Rocky Horror, tick tick BOOM!, Taboo)

Norbet Leo Butz
(The Last 5 Years, Wicked)

Patti LuPone
(Anything Goes, Sweeney Todd)

Bernadette Peters
(Mack & Mabel, Into the Woods)

Capatha Jenkins
(Godspell 2000 Revival, Caroline or Change)

Shoshana Bean
(Godspell 2000 Revival, Hairspray)

Matthew Morrison
(Hairspray, The Light in the Piazza)

John Hill
(Hairspray, Bare Demo)

Adam Fleming
(Hairspray, Bare Demo)

Natalie Joy Johnson
(Godspell 2001 Tour, Bare Demo)

Sarah Uriarte Berry
(Taboo, The Light in the Piazza)

If the Actors' Fund of America Benefit Recording of Hair counts then that's a LONG list.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:04pm

Babes in Arms - Studio Cast
On Your Toes - Studio Cast
The Boys from Syracuse - Studio Cast
Oh, Kay! - Studio Cast
Brigadoon - Studio Cast
She Loves Me
Fade Out, Fade In
Maggie Flynn

TV:
Free To Be, You and Me

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:20pm

Walking Happy
Coco
The Grass Harp
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Secret Garden

I was not familar with George Rose and was surprised when his name kept popping up. These are not shows I play often.

Orson Bean (3) I guess this qualifies him to be on game show panels:
Subways are for Sleeping
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - Studio Cast
Illya Darling

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:30pm

Passion
Out of This World
Anyone Can Whistle - Concert Cast
Ragtime - Concept
Ragtime

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:31pm

These people are Broadway stars because they've been in multiple shows, mostly recorded ones. Why is this such a shocker?

[ahmelie]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:46pm

Patti LuPone- Evita, Anything Goes, Sunset Boulevard, Pal Joey, The Baker's Wife, Les Miserables, Patti LuPone Live!, all three of her solo albums and multiple bootlegs (can-can, Les Mouches, The Savoy, The Lady With the Torch, Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda...
Pretty much everything she's done that I've been able to get my hands on...

Angela Lansbuy-Gypsy, Mame, Sweeney Todd.

Sherie Rene Scott- The Last Five Years, Aida, DRS

Audra McDonald- Ragtime, Marie Christine

Ethel Merman- Gypsy, Anything Goes, Annie...

Bernadette Peters- Gypsy, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park w/ George.

And Maria Callas, if she counts :P

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 10/20/06 at 11:55pm

I find it interesting, because there are some shows like Passion I bought for Sondheim and have never bothered to find out who is in it. I play it at work and just pop in the CD.

Others, like Patti LuPone, Ethel Merman, and Julie Andrews have recorded plenty, but I don't have much. It makes me want to fill in the gaps. I think it is amazing that I have missed Patti LuPone (I only have Evita and Anything Goes) although I have 3 Les Miz (french concept, symphonic, and broadway) and mp3 versions of Dutch, and German, but no London. And two versions of Sunset Blvd. LA and broadway, but no london. I buy almost all used. So, I am sure that it is just a matter of availability. The only show I can remember buying new was Avenue Q at the gift shop after the show in Las Vegas.

Do people try to get the complete recordings of one performer?
Complete collection of a composer/lyricist?

This should start a conversation. Someone sees a show in a list they haven't heard of or really like and they respond. The site does not promote that because as far as I can tell even if you respond to a specific post the response goes to the bottom of the list. If it worked like a tree like IMDB conversations could go off on tangents without breaking the flow of the thread.

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 12:00am

I have the full Sondheim, LaChiusa, Kander and Ebb, and Jason Robert Brown... I think...

Sondheim I'm 100% sure of, because... (see name). Kander and Ebb is the only one I'm iffy on.