Cast Recording Recomendations

Well a new musical u should check out is Spring Awakening, it's amazing!!!

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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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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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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Thank 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

If 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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bat boy

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

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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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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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.

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Updated On: 1/15/07 at 05:11 PM

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.