Favorite Cast Recordings

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 1:38pm

What are your favorite cast recordings? Music that makes you laugh/smile/cry every time you hear it? mine are

Sweeney Todd (memories from being in it)
The Last Five Years
Parade
A New Brain (I love Jason Robert Brown)

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 1:42pm

The one cast album that lifts me up out of a personal "funk" is
Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "PROMISES, PROMISES"

"DREAMGIRLS" is another all-time favorite of mine.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 1:46pm

When I hear One Night Only, I just can't sit still.

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 1:46pm

Yeah I love that show too!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 2:38pm

Just for another excuse to express my love...

*points to icon*
That's my answer.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 2:54pm

I thought A NEW BRAIN was Willian Finn

Cd's that I just cannot live without.... I guess my 10 Desert Island Discs

1. RAGTIME
2. DREAMGIRLS
3. ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
4. JEKYLL AND HYDE
5. AVENUE Q
6. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
7. WICKED
8. STARLIGHT EXPRESS
9. BLOOD BROTHERS
10. AIDA

these may not be the best shows in the world, but they always get me going and happy and smile... when i have a long trip, I always pack these to make the trip go faster.

[rmposey]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 2:54pm

Amour
The Last Five Years
Avenue Q - it just makes me feel silly and giddy!
She Loves Me (revival)
Every Forbidden Broadway recording!

[seymour krelborn]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 2:54pm

Hello Dolly, Zombie Prom, and Anything Goes seem to be my favorites ( well for now at least, it seems to change often)

[timote316]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 6:48pm

My favorites change almost daily. So, I'll give my top 10 (in no order) as of right now: Rent, Taboo, Producers, Chicago (new), Lion King, Wicked, West Side Story (original), Little Shop (new), Avenue Q, Urinetown.

Others cycle in, as well (i.e. Aida, Millie, Joseph (Damian), Fiddler (new or London), and so many more lol)

[hak]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 6:55pm

back when it was just released RENT was a constant play [i listen to it once in awhile now and it still sounds fresh]

other favs: WHEN PIGS FLY, ROCKY HORROR SHOW, AVE Q & [don't hate me] WICKED.

and of late i've been immersed in the PBS 5 disc box set.

[Marquise]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 7:14pm

i forgot to add RENT to my list.

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 7:19pm

Pippin, Ragtime, Rent, Les Miserables (10th anniversary:), Sweeney Todd, Original Assassins, and Tommy are among the favorites...there are a lot:)

[edenespinosalover]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 7:23pm

Gypsy (the new one), Les Miserables (10th Anniversary) and Taboo

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 7:51pm

A New Brain was William Finn, not JRB.

Ok, here is my top three that will always remain the same.

1) Phantom of the Opera OLCR
2) RENT
3) Jesus Christ Superstar 1996 London Cast

Now here my other favorites at this moment in time.

4) A New Brain
5) Tick Tick Boom
6) ALW's Variations (BRILLIANT)
7) Taboo

and the list goes on from there.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 8:11pm

My Fair Lady
The Producers
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Gypsy (Bernadette)
Wicked Updated On: 11/17/04 at 08:11 PM

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 9:00pm

The ones I could never live without:

RENT
tick, tick... BOOM!
Taboo
Songs For A New World
Jekyll and Hyde
Starlight Express
JCS
Les Mis 10th Anniv.
Millie

Love them all!

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 9:06pm

Just little note: Jason Robert Brown did do the arrangements just not the lyrics :) William finn did the lyrics :)

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 9:08pm

TABOO (Broadway)
AIDA
RENT
TTB
Avenue Q
JCS (OBC)
Godspell (OBC)
Pippin (OBC)
Zanna, Don't!
Cabaret (revival)

[kidmanboy]

Posted: 11/17/04 at 11:25pm

William Finn wrote both music and lyrics to A New Brain...Jason Robert Brown only arranged the vocal parts. Most shows do have a separate vocal arranger, you just happen to know who he is in this case.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 1:23am

Sweeney Todd
Into the Woods
Company
The Last Five Years
Avenue Q
Sunday in the Park with George
A Funny Thing Happened...
Cabaret
A Little Night Music
Assassins (both versions)
Gypsy (all versions, but i dont have tyne daly)

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 1:28am

Rent. TTB. Les Miz.

Embroidered three sets of towels to two of those, am currently doing another project while listening to TTB.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 1:29am

Sunday in the Park With George
Into the Woods
The Last 5 Years
Rent
Tick, Tick...BOOM!
Taboo
Blood Brothers
Sunset Boulevard
Cats
Dance of the Vampires (German)
Swing!
Hello, Dolly!
Peter Pan
BRITNEY SPEARS GREATEST HITS!!!!

[EVIE]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 2:36am

All of my Les Miz recordings (I love the songs in ANY language) and the 2000 Mexican Revival cast of JCS.

[mirandajrs]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 7:49am

Sweeney Todd OBC, Gypsy OBC, Hello Dolly OBC, Jane Eyre, The Last 5 Years, Les Miserables CSR, Phantom Of The Opera OCC, Ragtime OBC, Assassins NBC, Side Show & Grand Hotel

[AbsolutKnight]

Posted: 11/18/04 at 8:26am

Les Miserables, Miss Saigon... I am sure there are others, but those always get me