Broadway Singers CDs

I love Karmine Alers' new album and Alice and Emily's albums so which other Broadway/London actors CDs should I buy? I'm mainly after show tunes but any recommendations are helpful. For example, I love Anthony Rapp so am definitely going to buy his CD this week, same with Matt Caplan.

At the moment I am going to check out: Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald (does she have solo releases?), Bernadette Peters and Kristen Chenoweth. I don't really like Idina's solo stuff, same with Heather Headley. Ideas for male singers are helpful too - I absolutely love Billy Porter's CDs. Basically, anything goes but special love of belting/belters, show tunes and simply amazing peeps (Monsieur Rapp).

Thank you!

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I know Audra McDonald has a beautiful solo recording called How Glory Goes. Definitely get your hans on anything that says Bernadette Peters and if you can get her concert on DVD you should, it's the most astonishing concert. Brent Barret's Kander and Ebb album is excellent as well, especially if you like Kander & Ebb (composers of Chicago,Cabaret,The Rink,Kiss of the Spider Woman, etc)

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Liza Minnelli has great albums but that might not be in the style you're looking for. Ruthie Henshall has some good solo albums, although for some reason I believe The Ruthie Henshall album is out of print, I might be confused though. If you like the cabaret scene, Ute Lemper (Original Velma in London version of Chicago revival, played Sally Bowles in France, NYC cabaret scene) has some great solo albums, I believe she has a Sondheim album called A Hundred Other People and another album in which she performs Kurt Weill (Threepenny Opera) and Kander & Ebb. Barbara Cook also has very good solo recordings, but again, it might not be the style you're looking for. Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews both have good albums, and I believe Barbara Streisand's The Broadway Album is a must-have.

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I highly recommend Randal Keith's CD. :)
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Keep an eye out for Gavin Creel's debut album. He doesn't have a label yet, so no release date is set, but it should hopefully drop sometime this year.

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Jason Robert Brown's CD "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes" is amazing. I recommend buy thing CD for sure.

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mentaltenant: I did read your post but you'd written "broadwayscares" which I thought was some bizarro theatre in-joke.

I did look on amazon. But thank you for making it clear.

Attendthetale: I absolutely love JRB's album. Thanks! It's good recommendation and just the type of thing I was looking for.

Colleen: I am a huge fan of Gavin Creel and am awaiting his album with baited breath.

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BLUE LIKE THAT-Melissa Errico
SONGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED-Alix Korey
JUST IN TIME-Judy Kuhn
LET'S FALL IN LOVE-Rachel York
DOUBLE STANDARDS-Lea DeLaria
THE SONGS OF JASON ROBERT BROWN-Lauren Kennedy
EMILY SKINNER-Emily Skinner
EVERYTHING'S FINE-Alice Ripley
THE LONDON CONCERT-Betty Buckley
OPPOSITE YOU-Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley
OSCAR & STEVE-Mandy Patinkin
NEW YORK ROMANCE-Alison Fraser

I don't have many, but the few I have are really good:

ADAM PASCAL- Civillian
ANTHONY RAPP- Look Around
JOSHUA KOBAK (RENT u/s Roger)- Above and Beneath
MATT CAPLAN- Overtones (my favourite solo album)

I'll add here:

Randy Graff's "Doing Something Right" -Cy Coleman songs
James Naughton has two or three CD's out of some standards. I can't remember the title of the one I have.

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Michael Ball has two solo albums of musical theatre material ( great selections, including songs meant for stage divas such as WITH ONE LOOK) called THE MUSICALS and CENTRE STAGE.


http://www.michaelball.co.uk/music/musicals.htm

http://www.michaelball.co.uk/music/centre_stage.htm


Also, his show ALONE TOGETHER ( at the Donmar Warehouse), released on DVD, features quite a number of songs from the stage, not just Broadway -from Jolson to Guettel! He has a number of DVDs which also feature some great selections from musicals. He was actually the first one to release the title song of SUNSET BOULEVARD, even before the London OCR with Patti Lupone and Kevin Anderson was released.


Jo

Updated On: 1/9/06 at 08:33 PM

What kind of music do Megan Mullally, Adam Pascal, and Anthony Rapp sing on their solos?

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