Casting Recording Advice.
Casting Recording Advice.
#0Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:00pm
I am trying to decide which cast recordings to get. I'm likely gonna ask for some for my birthday, but feel free to add to the list, if theres something I should really get.
Want:
Woman in White
Spamalot
Little Women
Cabaret (revival. I don't know the show at all)
Urinetown
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#2re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:33pmLittle Women's coming out in April and Spamalot won't be out for a while.
#3re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:34pm
woo, Cabaret!! 
#4re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:37pmCABARET!!!!!!!! And if you don't have them, LSOH original cast, rent, YAGMCB revival, last five years, ave q, tick tick boom and hair. THose are my favorites.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#5re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:39pmActually, SPAMALOT will be released late March, before LITTLE WOMEN.
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#6re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:40pmtick, tick... BOOM! it'll make you so happy. i'm a really big fan of the broadway taboo, but that's not for everyone.
#7re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:42pmTaboo, Broadway. Absolutely.
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#8re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:43pm
mef, according to Amazon, Spamalot's release date is May 3. But BWW says the date is April 19. It may have gotten pushed back. Boo to that.
I LOVE Urinetown 
Also anything Jason Robert Brown (Last Five Years, Songs for a New World, and Parade) if you don't have anything of his yet.
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#9re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:46pmemcee, everytime i listen to it, i'm like, this was so underappreciated! the score (and i'm not speaking about the show) is one of the most completely breathtaking theatrical scores i've heard. i'm always going back to it, even after something like oklahome or fiddler or gypsy or guys and dolls. i even enjoy the arrangements of church of the poisoned mind and karma chameleon.
#10re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:49pmIt's one of the best scores Broadway has had in a while, I think. The brilliance of the score just got overshadowed by the negative press that surrounded the show as a whole. I go through phases with Taboo, because I'll pick it up and listen to it non-stop for weeks, but then I'll get bored of it for a while. Then when I do pick it up again, I'm in awe all over again. This is why I love Boy George.
#11re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 6:50pm
If you don't have them:
The Frogs, Candide, john & jen, My Life With Albertine, Parade, Side Show, The Apple Tree
#12re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 8:08pm
Heres what I have:
Les Miz (every English recorded album ever made)
Miss Saigon (OLC)
POTO (OLC)
Ave Q (OBC)
Amour (OBC)
CATS (OBC)I think it's Broadway not London
RENT (OBC)
Wicked (OBC)
Jekyll & Hyde (OBC)
Scarlet Pimpernel (not sure which, it has Doug, Terrance and Andrea)
Beauty and the Beast (OBC)
AIDA (OBC)
Throughly Modern Millie (Sutton, revival is it?)
Martin Guerre (2nd version)
Sweeney Todd (OBC)
Oliver (1994, London version directed by Sam Mendes)
A Tale of Two Cities (concept cast)
Mamma Mia (OLC)
Hairspray (OBC)
Kiss Me Kate (revival cast)
Into the Woods (revival cast)
The Producers (OBC)
They are all full versions, Highlights are for losers and non Broadway fans.
Updated On: 2/20/05 at 08:08 PM
matthius202
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/05
#13re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 8:10pm
you don't know Cabaret!? GET OUT THERE AND KNOW IT!! 
you'll love it. but it's one of those shows that as much as you can enjoy listening to the CD, you don't know the show and don't FEEL it, until you SEE it. *flashes back to the microphone being thrown down by Susan Egan*. it's incredible.
"Be not like dumb, driven cattle. Be a hero in the strife." A Psalm of Life...Walt Whitman
#14re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 10:25pmI just got Do Re Mi and Five Guys Named Moe and am enjoying both!
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
dotmarie
Broadway Star Joined: 8/14/03
#15re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 10:30pm
Ugh, I NEED Cabaret.
which is better, original or revival?
#16re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 10:34pmI emphatically suggest the original, but the revival is no slouch either. But... it's my general rule of the thumb that OCRs are better.
#17re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 11:14pm
What, you don't have WHOOP UP? or KWAMINA? or FLAHOOLEY? You can't call yourself a true Broadway collector unless you have at least one of these "fabulous flops." LOL
Actually this could be the start of a new thread...what FLOPS do you absolutely adore?
Ok back to seriously....
CABARET wpuld seem a must, both the 1998 Revival and 1966 original casts are worthwhile.
I just saw the Toronto production of TICK TICK BOOM and if you like RENT you will probably like this one.
THE LAST 5 YEARS is well worth having as well.
But your list is missing some of the all-time great OCRS : OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, MY FAIR LADY, GUYS AND DOLLS, GYPSY, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, COMPANY, A CHORUS LINE....
Don't neglect the older shows! There is much to learn about how we got here from there.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
elphaba.scares.me
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/04
#18re: Casting Recording Advice.
Posted: 2/21/05 at 12:00amehhhhhhhh, i don't know. i thought the cabaret revival was brilliant, but the recording gets on my nerves. you have to really be okay with sally not being a great singer.
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