Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

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Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 8:14pm

I've spent the better part of the day listening to Saycon Sengbloh's debut disc "Southern Pin-up". I'll admit that I was pleasantly surprised and pleased to learn that she penned the lyrics to the bulk of the titles as well as bankrolled the project under her own imprint. I'm aware of Adam Pascal's and Audra McDonald's discs. Can you guys recommend any titles released by artists known primarily by theatre goers, genre unimportant?

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#2

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 8:16pm

Debbie Gravitte's albums!! urgh SO SO GOOD!
and Kristin Chenoweth of course
Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal as well!

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#3

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 8:19pm

Def pick up Civilian and Model Prisoner (Adam Pascal) and Look Around (Anthony Rapp.) Worth every penny plus more! Also (as said above) Kristin's album and Idina's is awsome. I dont know if Still, I Can't be Still is in stock anymore but I know Here is and its wonderful.

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#4

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:04pm

I'll speak for myself and emcee and say Civilian.

Krisin's 'Let Yourself Go' is also very good.

#5

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:07pm

Kristin's is probably the only one I listen to most often. That and all of Liza's stuff of course.

#6

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Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:08pm

Howard McGillin's "Where Time Stands Still". Dreamy!!

#7

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:08pm

All of Christy Baron's albums (she was Fantine on Broadway a while back) and Randy Graff's wonderful Cy Coleman album. And Liz Callaway's and Sally Mayes' collections.

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re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:08pm

Rachel York's brand new "Let's Fall in Love" is terrific. She crosses over into Big Band/jazz, singing 12 great standard love songs. Check it out at Barnes & Noble. You can see the track list and hear samples at http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=kr4O9gwA1H&cds2Pid=5533&ean=603777800325

lc

#9

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 9:25pm

I love Lauren Kennedy's "Songs of Jason Robert Brown", Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley's duet CDs (especially "Unsuspecting Hearts") and their respective solo CDs.

#10

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 11:12pm

Debbie Gravitte is a goddess.

#11

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Posted: 2/14/05 at 11:14pm

"Model Prisoner" and "This is Who I Am"

#12

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 11:30pm

Most of the solo recording I know come from Rent cast members, but they have some great stuff.

Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel
Caren Lyn Manuel
Matt Caplan
Joshua Kobak / Swim
Chad Richardson
Jeremy Kushnier
Cary Shields / Poncho
Karmine Alers

There's a lot of them (definitely forgetting some), & I enjoy them all, for the most part. I think since Rent has such a youthful, rockish type of voice to it a lot of the actors are themselves serious musicians.

I enjoy Kristin Chenoweth's CD because Girl in 14G is hysterical.

I'm very interested in other solo recordings from Broadway actors, so this is a good thread to expand my CD collection.

#13

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/14/05 at 11:32pm

You can have three guesses. Any takers?

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#14

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 12:09am

Hmmm....Adam Pascal, Adam Pascal and....*thinks hard* oh what the hell...Adam Pascal! :-P Don't blame ya, gotta love him to death and beyond!

Has anyone heard Daphne Rubin Vega's solo CD? I've been thinking about buying it but I'd love any reviews you might have.

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#15

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 12:17am

Bouhli Bahli's "Bally Bah"

#16

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Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:23am

I love Christiane Noll's A Broadway Love Story album.

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#17

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:25am

yaaaaay, Dreamcatcher, you win!

Guys, see the link in my signature? Click it. Then buy.

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#18

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:30am

Haha already have. Am now in love with the CDs. :-P *wishes for Adam to make a new CD*

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I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart. -Scrubs

#19

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:30am

I'm sorry. You have to wait at least four years. :-P

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#20

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:33am

Damn! Ah well, Civilian, Model Prisoner and the new RENT recording that will be out around Christmas time I guess should hold me over. :-P Can never get too much of Adam!

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I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart. -Scrubs

#21

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:40am

Bernadette's R&H CD
Daphne Rubin Vega's unreleased CD is the greatest

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#22

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:52am

check out Ellen Greene's CD "In His Eyes". She does some Peter Allen, Tori Amos, Queen, and Pirate Jenny. Its a really cool album and she sounds amazing.

http://www.ellengreene.com

#23

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:56am

Betty Buckley (Children Will Listen, Live @ Carnegie Hall)
Patti LuPone (Matters of the Heart, Live in Concert, Heatwave)
Mandy Patinkin (the first album)
Debbie Gravitte (the Alan Menken album)
Lauren Kennedy (Jason Robert Brown album)
Stephen Schwartz (Reluctant Pilgrim)
Compilations (Stephen Schwartz Songbook, Maury Yeston Songbook)
Judy Kaye (Diva by Diva)
Judy Kuhn (sings Jule Styne)
Liz & Ann Hampton Callaway (Sibling Revelry)
Liz Callaway (On & Off Broadway)

Streisand (the Broadway Album)and McDonald of course!

#24

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:38am

Lots, but here are some:

Elaine Paige "The Queen Album"
Ellen Greene "In His Eyes"
Betty Buckley "The London Concert"
Patti LuPone "Live"
Michael Ball "This Time It's Personal"
Frances Rufelle "Untitled" (songs from Chess, Nine, etc)
Judy Kuhn "Judy Kuhn sings Jule Stein"
Sarah Brightman "Eden"
Bernadette Peters "Sondheim, etc"
Maria Freidman "Untitled"
Ruthie Henshall "Pilgrim"
Jennifer Holliday "Feel My Soul"
Alice Ripley/Emily Skinner "Duets"

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#25

re: Fave solo recordings by Broadway actors

Posted: 2/15/05 at 11:44am

My Top Four

Melissa Errico's "Blue Like That"
Linda Eder "Broadway My Way"
Laura Kennedy sings JRB
Megan Mullally "Big as Berry"

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