Cast Recording Recomendations
Cast Recording Recomendations
#1Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:16pm
Hi, I need some new cast recordings to listen to, I was wondering if someone could recomend some. My current favourites are: The Last Five Years, Songs for a New World, Tick, tick...BOOM, RENT, Aida and Wicked.
Thank You!
#2re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:20pmWell a new musical u should check out is Spring Awakening, it's amazing!!!
#2re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:21pmThe Avenue Q Cast Recording broke me of my Wicked phase.
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#3re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:24pm
With the kinds of shows I see that you like I reccomend:
Spring Awakening, Avenue Q, Godspell 2000 Revival w/Barrett Foa, Hair Actor's Fund Concert, See What I Wanna See, and A Chorus Line Revival.
They are all good.
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#4re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:27pmGod there's so many. But I will say: I recieved SIDE SHOW for hannuka. Definetly worth a buy
#5re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:28pm
Oklahoma, Carousel, King and I, Kiss Me Kate, Showboat, My Fair Lady, Brigagoon, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business..., Most Happy Fella, Gypsy, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, A Little Night Music, Hair, Nine, Grand Hotel, Into the Woods, Passion, Assassins, Carnival, Cabaret, Chicago, Falsettos, City of Angels, Sweet Charity...
I could go on...
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#6re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:32pmI recently got 'I Love You Because.' It was an off-Broadway show, but I love the music.
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#7re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:36pm
The Apple Tree [original Broadway Cast Recording]
And to add to jasonf's reccommendation of Cabaret;
There are two recordings of this show which are a must-have and those are the 1966 OBC with Joel Grey and Jill Haworth as well as the 1998 Revival OBC with Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson.
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#8re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/14/07 at 11:41pmYou're right PM - both are essential -- and your pick of The Apple Tree made me realize I forgot two of my favorites: She Loves Me and Fiddler on the Roof. (There are MANY MANY more, but...)
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#9re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 12:22amThank you everyone. I just downloaded the spring awakening album on itunes and so far I like it. I can already tell it will be my new obsession
#10re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 12:29am
It sounds like you really like the Pop-type broadway shows. However, I would recommend "Follies"!
You need some Sondheim in your collection!
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#11re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 1:26amIf you like L5Y and Songs for a New World, you really need to check out the Parade OBC. Unless you already have it, that is.
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#12re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 1:31amURINETOWN!
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#14re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 10:09am
The Drowsy Chaperone
Full Monty
The Wedding Singer
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#15re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 10:36am
wedding singer
hairspray
little shop revival
apple tree- original
mamma mia
drowsy
dreamgirls
mary poppins- london
les miz
kiss of the spider women
steel pier
Updated On: 1/15/07 at 10:36 AM
#16re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 10:38am
The Wedding Singer
Hairspray
A Chorus Line
Beauty and the Beast
Mamma Mia!
Mary Poppins (OLC)
Sweeney Todd
Tarzan
Lion King
Wicked
Dreamgirls (OBC or Movie or Concert Recording)
I can go further...haha
#17re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 1:13pm
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Hairspray
Into the Woods (a good introduction to Sondheim)
Pippin
It seems your tastes are pretty similar to mine, and these are some of my other favorites.
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#18re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:30pm
Wow lol, thats a lot, I guess I better get listening. I'm not made of money or anything so i'll have to see if i can get some of these from the library. I have heard some songs from Parade and I wasn't as crazy about them as with L5Y and SFANW, but I will listen to it again.
Thank you for the recommendations.
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#19re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:29pm
My two biggest reccomendations at the moment are Wedding Singer and Spring Awakening 
two COMPLETELY different shows, but they're both insanely addicting recordings with incredible music and brilliant casts!
oh and See What I Wanna See too!
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#20re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 4:56pmi highly recommend the film version over the obc of rent cos it was slow and boring, admitted by the cast themselves.
#21re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 5:11pm
I think you'd enjoy:
Bright Lights, Big City
A Chorus Line
Hair Actors Fund Benefit Concert
And I'm not sure if you'd enjoy it, but I highly reccomend Follies.
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
Updated On: 1/15/07 at 05:11 PM
#22re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 5:16pm
The Les Miserables CSR was all I listened to up until Christmas.
When Once Upon a Mattress & La Cage aux Folles were brought back to me.
Goshen doesn't do High-School-shows.
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#23re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 5:46pm
i highly recommend the film version over the obc of rent cos it was slow and boring, admitted by the cast themselves.
No. The cast themselves never admitted the OBCR was "slow and boring". Some of them have said they prefer the movie soundtrack because of the production and the more relaxed recording experience. Not the same thing. But the original poster already has Rent, so it's kind of a moot point on this thread.
Based on the ones mentioned atop? I'll reiterate Spring Awakening and See What I Wanna See, and add Hedwig and the Angry Inch (either recording, though I prefer the movie soundtrack) and Taboo (Broadway version, if you like Raul Esparza from TTB).
I want to recommend the Actors Fund Benefit of Chess, but keep forgetting that was never released. The Actors Fund Benefit Recording of Hair is a good bet, too.
Of course you need Sondheim, but some recordings are much easier to understand than others. I had to study Sweeney Todd to really make the recordings of that work for me. My own personal Baby's First Sondheim, the one recording that I got immediately, was the revival recording of Assassins.
#24re: Cast Recording Recomendations
Posted: 1/15/07 at 6:09pm
Thank you, yeah I'd like to get into Sweeney Todd, because everyone on this board is always talking about it.
And I actually prefer the OBC of Rent more than the film version.
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