Agreed that "Broadway" as a genre doesn't really work, because it's so broad and varied. 'The Light In The Piazza' and 'RENT', for instance, really don't go well together, and nor do 'Beauty And The Beast' and 'Sweeney Todd'.
Looking at my CDs, I'd say it's 50% Broadway/musical theatre to everything else. ("Everything else" being classical, movie soundtracks, anime soundtracks, game soundtracks, and normal pop/rock music. Although half the normal pop/rock music is Broadway stars' solo albums... XD) But I listen to Broadway probably something like 90% of the time.
My brain is wired in such a way that I have serial interests. I'll be really into something for a while, when I absolutely cannot get enough of it, then eventually, that wanes a little, and something else becomes flavour of the month, and the one that was It before just becomes something I really like. Listening to a show feels more varied than listening to an album. A Steps album, for instance, is fun, cheesy, dancey pop music. A cast recording is a story running the whole gamut of emotions. It takes me much longer to get "bored" with a cast recording because of that. And I don't really get bored of them, because I still love all the shows that I've loved. They just stop being that Flavour Of The Month. :)
Also, I wasn't always rabidly into Broadway, which is when I was buying CDs from all sorts of sources. Now I really am rabidly into Broadway, and any money I can afford to spend on music goes on cast recordings. So I expect my Broadway-other CD owning ratio to drastically alter over the coming eyars. ^_^
Updated On: 7/3/06 at 03:33 PM
